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White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow asserted President Trump’s threat to block trade between private Americans businesses and China, saying he has “emergency economic power authority” to do so. “Do you believe that the president does have the authority to block private businesses from investing in China?” CBS News' Margaret Brennan asked Kudlow on “Face the Nation” Sunday. “Ultimately, he does have authority,” responded Kudlow. “It’s an emergency economic power authority,” he said, adding that Trump “is not intending to” block trade with China at this time. Amid an escalating trade war, Trump in a series of angry tweets Friday...

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Americans “should not be afraid of optimism” after a wobbly weak on Wall Street, arguing President Trump’s agenda of tax cuts and deregulation are working and they’ll stay the course. U.S. stocks plunged Wednesday on fears of a recession and weak economic performances from Germany and China, though investors recovered some losses later in the week. Mr. Kudlow said he does not fear a recession. More Americans are working, they’re seeing higher wages and they’re spending their cash. “That’s about as good as it gets,” he told Fox News Sunday. “I think...

As his limo carried him to work at the White House Monday, Larry Kudlow could not have been pleased with the headline in The Washington Post: "Kudlow Contradicts Trump on Tariffs." The story began: "National Economic Council Director Lawrence Kudlow acknowledged Sunday that American consumers end up paying for the administration's tariffs on Chinese imports, contradicting President Trump's repeated inaccurate claim that the Chinese foot the bill." A free trade evangelical, Kudlow had conceded on Fox News that consumers pay the tariffs on products made abroad that they purchase here in the U.S. Yet that is by no means the...

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow denounced Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sunday after the 2020 White House candidate said President Trump was "taking credit for a recovery that started under [former President Barack] Obama." "What Mr. Booker and some others are saying is simply not true factually," Kudlow told Fox News' "America's News HQ". Kudlow spoke two days after the publication of the April jobs report, which showed that the American economy added 263,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent, the lowest since 1969. Despite the rosy numbers, Booker insisted that the boom's effects were...

Videos at link. The White House took a victory lap Friday after the Labor Department announced 304,000 jobs were created in January, some 139,000 more than economists anticipated. “Three hundred-thousand new jobs plus, 3.2 percent increase in wages, participation rates went up, hours worked went up, it doesn’t get much better than this,” National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said in a video posted to the White House Twitter page. “I hate to say I told you so folks,” he added. “We’re going at 3 percent plus, and I don’t care, you can line up 8,000 pessimistas, and they’re wrong....

Subsidies: President Trump's economic adviser Larry Kudlow says subsidies for electric cars and other renewable energy programs might soon be eliminated. That would be a major victory on the road to energy freedom. National Economic Council chief Kudlow, a well-known free marketeer and supply-sider, said subsidies might disappear as soon as 2020 — interestingly, the next presidential election year. The decision comes after General Motors — the beneficiary of $2,500-$7,000 tax credits for those who buy GM's plug-in cars, not to mention two separate corporate tax cuts — decided to close five North American plants, leaving 14,700 workers without jobs....

President Trump was not aware of the unusual arrest of a major Chinese technology executive when he sat down to dinner recently with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow. Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 on a U.S. extradition warrant. Huawei is suspected of evading American sanctions on Iran, a possibility that U.S. prosecutors have been investigating since 2016. The arrest was made on the same day that Trump and Xi met for dinner amid high-level trade and national security talks in Buenos Aires. An unnamed...

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow announced Monday that during the G20 summit, the Chinese promised to make trade changes “immediately.” Kudlow told Breitbart News on a Monday press call that the timeline for this round of U.S.-China trade negotiations is going to move fast. He stressed that the credibility of the current discussion between the two nations will hinge on rapid movement. This is something the two sides discussed specifically at last week’s G20 Argentina meetings, including the meeting involving President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. He did not give a definitive timeline aside from indicating rapid...

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday the Trump administration will end subsidies for electric cars and renewable energy sources, Reuters reports. Kudlow said he expected subsidies for electric cars would end by 2020 or 2021, according to the report. The remarks were made in response to a question about what the administration would do about General Motors' plans to layoff 15,000 people and shutter five plants across North America. The company's plans have sparked outrage in Washington from both parties. Trump last week floated cutting GM's subsidies for electric vehicles and raising auto tariffs to punish the...

The U.S. and China have re-engaged in trade talks ahead of a meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Argentina this week. The meeting offers an "opportunity to break through" after progress toward a trade agreement stalled in recent months, according to White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow. Trump is considering whether to put tariffs on another $267 billion in Chinese goods if the talks do not go well.

The Talk Shows November 4th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md; Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. The panel will be Brit Hume, Juan Williams, Karl Rove and Marie Harf, co-host of “Benson and Harf” and former State Department spokesperson.. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Stacey Abrams, Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate; Gov. Bill Haslam, R-Tenn.; Josh Hawley, Missouri attorney general and Republican Senate candidate; Van Hollen. A panel with Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher; Tom Brokaw of NBC News; Savannah Guthrie, co-anchor of “Today”...

The Talk Shows October 14th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow; Cui Tiankai, Chinese ambassador to the United States. The panel will be Brit Hume of Fox News; Julie Pace of The Associated Press; Karl Rove, former Bush White House senior adviser; and Philippe Reines, former Hillary Clinton senior adviser.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FlaJosh Hawley, Missouri attorney general and Republican Senate candidate; Stacey Abrams, Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate; John Brennan, former CIA director. The panel will be Peter Baker...

President Donald Trump's top economic advisor has given Democrats fresh ammunition for one of their most used midterm attacks. Asked Monday if the Trump administration would address "entitlement reform," White House chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow said it will "probably" look at "larger entitlements" next year. Entitlement reform generally refers to changes or cuts to large government social programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or food stamps.

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, the top economic adviser to President Trump, confirms a Washington Post report that he hosted at his home last weekend a controversial publisher linked to white nationalist commentary. Peter Brimelow, the publisher, founded the anti-immigration website Vdare.com. The site has become a forum for hard-line conservative views on race and immigration. "I don't regard us as a 'white nationalist' site although we certainly publish a few writers I would regard as 'white nationalist' in that they stand up for whites just as Zionists, Black Nationalists do for Jews, Blacks etc," Brimelow told the Harvard...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top White House adviser warned China on Friday not to underestimate U.S. President Donald Trump's resolve in a brewing trade battle between the world's two largest economies, showing little concern over Beijing's threat to impose retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods. "They better not underestimate the president," Larry Kudlow said in an interview on Fox Business Network. "He is going to stand tough." China on Friday said it was prepared to place additional tariffs on 5,207 goods imported from the United States, ranging from liquefied natural gas to some aircraft. The move was...

The Talk Shows July 29th, 2018 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): President Trump’s attorney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The panel will be Jonah Goldberg of National Review; Gillian Turner, Fox News correspondent; Jonathan Swan, national political reporter for Axios; and Mo Elleithee, executive director of Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sam Nunberg, former Donald Trump campaign aide; Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio; Michael Isikoff of Yahoo! News and author of “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War...

President Trump’s chief economic adviser said Thursday that European Union Commission President Jean Claude Juncker pledged to back the U.S. trade fight against China. The commitment to take on China’s trade abuses was made as part of the breakthrough zero-tariff deal struck this week by Mr. Trump and Mr. Juncker, said Larry Kudlow, director of the president’s National Economic Council. “The United States and the E.U. will be allies in the fight against China, which has broken the world trading system,” Mr. Kudlow said on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.” He said that China attempted to enlist the E.U....

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow predicted Wednesday at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference in New York that economic growth could reach as high as four percent for “a quarter or two.” Kudlow told CNBC’s Jim Cramer that the Trump administration plans for more tax cuts in the future as the economy gets “strong and prosperous.” “We are getting 3 [percent] and it may be 4 for a quarter or two — it may be plus, I don’t know,” Kudlow said. “That’s all to the good. Literally millions more people are working.” He continued, “You’ve got kids, millennials etc. …...

WASHINGTON — Larry Kudlow, the director of President Trump’s National Economic Council, spent Tuesday morning calling friends who said they expected him to return to his White House job after recovering from a mild heart attack that landed him in the hospital on Monday. Mr. Kudlow, 70, seemed to be back to his usual self, friends and colleagues said, as he placed and fielded calls from Walter Reed Medical Center. On Tuesday afternoon, White House officials said Mr. Kudlow remained in the hospital and confirmed they expect him to return to his position. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press...

Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s top economic adviser, suffered a heart attack on Monday evening and was at Walter Reed Medical Center, Mr. Trump said in a tweet. Mr. Kudlow, 70, who has referred to himself as a “happy warrior” in counseling Mr. Trump on trade and economic policy, joined Mr. Trump’s team in March as the director of the National Economic Council. “Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center,” Mr. Trump tweeted, just before a meeting in Singapore...