On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” White House Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro responded to a question on why, so far in 2026, we haven’t hit the GDP growth milestones referenced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and predicted by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick by saying that “we think we’re doing quite well.” And “We’re happy with where we’re going. We need to message this more effectively, because the news is good, but we have trouble, because when we go on the news shows, they want to point out bad things.” But we would have 3% without the “very big drag” of not having a rate cut.
\n\nHost Blake Burman referenced the 3% GDP growth referenced by Bessent and then played video of Lutnick saying there will be 6% annual GDP growth under Trump and then asked why we haven’t had that so far this year.
\n\nNavarro responded, “If you look at our economy, we think we’re doing quite well. I head the Office of Trade and Manufacturing, okay. Our playbook right now is to onshore our production, bring our factories and jobs home, both for economic prosperity and national security. We are having, because of two…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
