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Trump’s Budget Chief: MAGAnomics Will Boost the U.S. Economy

<p class&equals;"MsoNormal" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he will bring the U&period;S&period; economy out from its sluggish state&period; His Budget Chief Mick Mulvaney announced that &ldquo&semi;MAGAnomics&&num;8221&semi; will be the approach that the Trump administration will use to achieve its 3&percnt; economic growth goal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;We introduced the term this week&comma; which is called &&num;8216&semi;MAGAnomics&comma;&&num;8217&semi; which is sort of this unifying theme of everything we&rsquo&semi;re trying to do to get the healthy&comma; traditional American economy back on track&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Mulvaney&comma; director of the White House Office of Management and Budget&nbsp&semi;last week on <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Fox &amp&semi; Friends&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">This strategy is similar to &ldquo&semi;Reaganomics&comma;&rdquo&semi; where the former President Ronald Reagan reduce taxes and promoted an unrestricted free market&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The MAGA stands for Trump&rsquo&semi;s slogan&comma; &ldquo&semi;Make America Great Again&rdquo&semi; and it will focus on tax reform&comma; welfare reform&comma; deregulation&comma; healthcare reform&comma; energy dominance and other sectors that will help to revamp the U&period;S&period; economy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;It&rsquo&semi;s our version of Reaganomics&period; You go back and look at what Reagan did in the &&num;8217&semi;80s and the challenges they faced&comma; and &&num;8230&semi;&nbsp&semi;we looked at the challenges we face&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Mulvaney&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Mulvaney outlined the administration&rsquo&semi;s lofty goals and how it plans to achieve in a recent <em>Wall Street Journal<&sol;em> op-ed&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;Over the next 10 years&comma; 3&percnt; growth instead of 2&percnt; will yield a nominal gross domestic product that is &dollar;16 trillion larger&comma; federal government revenues &dollar;2&period;9 trillion greater&comma; and wages and salaries of American workers &dollar;7 trillion higher&comma;&rdquo&semi; wrote Mulvaney&period; &ldquo&semi;For merely suggesting that we can get back to that level&comma; the administration has been criticized as unrealistic&period; That&rsquo&semi;s fine with us&period; We heard the same pessimism 40 years ago&comma; when the country was mired in &ldquo&semi;stagflation&rdquo&semi; and &ldquo&semi;malaise&period;&rdquo&semi; But Ronald Reagan dared to challenge that thinking and steered us to a boom that many people thought unachievable&period; In the 7&frac12&semi; years following the end of the recession in 1982&comma; real GDP grew at an annual rate of 4&period;4&percnt;&period; That is what a recovery looks like&comma; and what the American economy is still capable of achieving&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">He points out that MAGAnomics will benefit all Americans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;MAGAnomics is for everyone&comma; but especially for those who left for work this morning in the dark but came home after their kids were asleep&period; It&rsquo&semi;s for those who are working part-time but praying for a full-time job&period; It&rsquo&semi;s for folks whose savings are as exhausted as they are&period; This president hears you&period; He knows America&rsquo&semi;s greatness doesn&rsquo&semi;t spring from higher taxes or unnecessary regulations or broken welfare programs&period; It doesn&rsquo&semi;t come from government at all&period; It comes from you&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes Mulvaney&period; &&num;8220&semi;If we enact the president&&num;8217&semi;s broad agenda &mdash&semi; if MAGAnomics is allowed to work &mdash&semi; we will have set the stage for the greatest revival of the American economy since the early 1980s&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Critics argue that the current healthcare challenges could have an impact on the economy&comma; but Mulvaney believes that the GOP can pull together a worthy proposal by fall&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;While all of this discussion about healthcare has sort of made the news&comma; Mr&period; Cohn and Mr&period; Mnuchin have been on the hill working with House and Senate leaders&comma; House and Senate rank-and-file members to try and put some meat on that bone&comma; and I think you&rsquo&semi;ll see a proposal very early in the fall&comma;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;said Mulvaney&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal"><strong>Author&rsquo&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> The last time&comma; the U&period;S&period; saw the GDP growth over 3&percnt;&comma; George W&period; Bush was in office&period; Tax reform and reregulation is sure to ramp up the economy&period; So far&comma; the S&amp&semi;P 500 is up by 12&percnt; since Trump was elected&period; Not to mention&comma; economic growth is expected to reach 2&period;3 &percnt; this year&comma; which is drastically more than 2016&rsquo&semi;s 1&period;6&percnt;&period; 3&percnt; is not too far off considering the MAGAnomics policies haven&rsquo&semi;t even been put in place yet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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