The US Treasury¹ secretary has conceded that the administration’s timetable for ambitious tax reforms is set to slip following setbacks in negotiations² with Congress over healthcare.

美国财长承认，在与国会就医疗问题协商失败后，美国政府雄心勃勃的税务改革的时间表将会推后。

Steven Mnuchin said the target to get tax reforms through Congress and on President Donald Trump³’s desk before August was “highly aggressive to not realistic at this point”.

史蒂文?姆努钦(Steven Mnuchin)表示，在8月之前在国会通过税改方案并提交至总统唐纳德?特朗普(Donald Trump)办公桌的目标，“目前看来太过冒进，很不现实”。

“It started as [an] aggressive timeline,” the former Goldman Sachs banker said in an interview with the Financial Times. “It is fair to say it is probably delayed a bit because of the healthcare.”

“一开始，这就是一份冒进的时间表，”这位前高盛(Goldman Sachs)银行家在接受英国《金融时报》采访时表示，“公平地讲，由于医疗问题，税改时间表很可能会延迟一点儿。”

Ahead of meetings with finance ministers and central bankers in Washington this week, Mr Mnuchin also rejected fears that the Trump administration may be embarking⁴ on a new round of currency wars over the strength of the dollar following the president’s public fretting⁵ last week.

在本周即将与各国财长和央行行长在华盛顿召开会议之际，姆努钦也驳斥了外界的担忧，即在特朗普上周公开表示担心之后，特朗普政府也许会因美元走强而启动新一轮货币战争。

He stressed that the US did not intervene in currency markets, saying: “The president was making a factual comment about the strength of the dollar in the short term?.?.?.?There’s a big difference between talk and action.”

他强调称，美国并未干预汇市。他说：“总统对美元的短期走强给出了事实性评论……言论与行动之间有很大区别。”