Larry Kudlow is the 'leading contender' to replace Gary Cohn, says his former CNBC cohost Jim Cramer

Larry Kudlow.
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Former Reagan administration official Larry Kudlow is a candidate to be President Trump's top economics adviser, CNBC reports. Kudlow, who worked in the Office of Management and Budget under former President Ronald Reagan, would be replacing outgoing National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, who announced last week that he would leave the White House.

Kudlow is a longtime contributor to CNBC, and while the network said Kudlow declined to comment on the rumor, the report came from Jim Cramer, Kudlow's former cohost on Kudlow & Cramer. In reporting the news Monday, Cramer said he had it on "pretty good" authority that Kudlow "is now the leading contender for the job to replace Gary Cohn."

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.