US may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring effect of Doge cuts
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#6VN1K)
Howard Lutnick's remarks echo Elon Musk, who says government spending doesn't create value for US economy
Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, said on Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports, in response to questions about whether the spending cuts pushed by the billionaire businessman Elon Musk's so-called department of government efficiency" (Doge) could possibly cause an economic downturn.
You know that governments historically have messed with GDP," Lutnick said on Fox News Channel's Sunday Morning Futures. They count government spending as part of GDP. So I'm going to separate those two and make it transparent."
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