Larry Kudlow's claim that Trump inherited a 'stagnant economy' gets pushback from fact-checkers

Larry Kudlow.
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During his Republican National Convention speech on Tuesday night, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow touted his work with President Trump's campaign in 2016, saying that he helped craft an economic plan that was a "roaring success," considering Trump inherited "a stagnant economy on the front end of recession."

This statement received pushback from the fact-checkers at The Washington Post, with Glenn Kessler writing that under former President Barack Obama, the United States added more than 250,000 jobs every month in 2014, 227,000 a month in 2015, and 193,000 per month in 2016.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.