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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

Trump economic adviser bafflingly says ‘if people were unhappy, it’d show up in the data’

President Donald Trump’s economic adviser said that if voters were dissatisfied with the economy, it would show up in the economic data — even as economic data shows Americans are dissatisfied with the state of the economy.

Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council in the White House, appeared on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper on Sunday.

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