Marco Rubio Hires Hill Aide Jonathan Slemrod as Policy Director
The Republican presidential candidate staffs up.
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Senator Marco Rubio has hired Capitol Hill staffer Jonathan Slemrod as policy director for his presidential campaign, spokesman Alex Conant confirmed to Bloomberg.
Slemrod, whose focus is on budget and tax policy, has been an aide to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate. His other former bosses on Capitol Hill include Representative Paul Ryan, now the Ways and Means chairman, and then-Representative Jeff Flake, now a senator from Arizona.