Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced Friday that he was stepping down as special adviser to President Trump, saying he didn’t want “partisan bickering” over his role to cloud the Trump administration.
Icahn announced his stepping down in a letter on his website. He named his role as “special advisor to the President on issues relating to regulatory reform,” although he later noted he never had a formal role within the administration.
He noted that the recent appointment of Neomi Rao as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs raised questions about the overlap between her position and Icahn’s — although he said the answer to that question was “no.”
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