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Donald Kohn, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the former vice chair of the Federal Reserve, said the shift in tone appeared intended to calm financial markets but he did not think it marked the end of a fight over the Fed, an institution considered vital to the health of the world's largest economy.

Elaine Kamark from the Brookings Institution said government spending could be streamlined, highlighting her own work for President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

Aaron Klein, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, said it would be a challenge for technology firms — or any business — to respond coherently to a policy that he called “nonsensical.”

A Brookings Institute analysis last year found that those in the state’s highest-income ZIP codes were the most frequent voucher users, while the lowest-income areas were approximately a fourth as likely to make use of the program.

"The damage Trump has done to Nato is probably irreparable," argues Robert Kagan, a conservative commentator, author and senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC who has been a long time critic of Trump.