Mnuchin stands by contention that GOP tax cut to be biggest ever

'It is the biggest tax cut in history on mostly every single part of the plan'

Steven Mnuchin stood by President Donald Trump’s contention that the Republican plans now working their way through the House and Senate will deliver the biggest US tax cuts ever.

“There’s lots of different ways of looking at it. This will be the largest change since President Reagan,” the Treasury secretary said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the first of two scheduled appearances on Sunday political talk shows.

Trump has repeatedly called the proposed tax cuts the largest ever. Mnuchin was challenged by CNN correspondent Jake Tapper, who said that by various measures, including when adjusted for inflation, the measures would fall