Pres. Trump's top economic adviser Larry Kudlow concedes he was caught off guard by the speed with which the pandemic moved and its impact on the economy.
pandemic, his top economic adviser delivered an unvarnished message about the dire economic realities facing the country.
“It's going to get worse in the weeks ahead, there's no question about it,” Larry Kudlow said in an exchange with ABC News. “We have not seen the worst of it, I don’t want to sugarcoat it.” President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, April 2, 2020 in Washington, DC.Kudlow declined to offer a numerical figure for just how much higher he forecasts unemployment numbers to get, but he didn’t mince words when asked if the country is looking at double-digit figures.
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