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CEOs Cut Ties With Trump

President Donald Trump meets with Kenneth C. Frazier, Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co. in January. In August, Frazier left the White House American Manufacturing Council over the president's comments on the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
President Donald Trump meets with Kenneth C. Frazier, Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co. in January. In August, Frazier left the White House American Manufacturing Council over the president's comments on the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The CEOs of Merck, Intel and Under Armour resigned their positions on the White House American Manufacturing Council this week. The three condemned the hate groups that attracted violence to a recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — something President Donald Trump has been criticized for not doing in a timely way.

What will the absence of these CEOs mean for the president’s business council? And what does the council do anyway?

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Justin Sink, White House reporter, Bloomberg News; @justinsink

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