Fact Check: Trump Says He’d Push GDP Growth ‘5 or 6%’

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Republican Donald Trump says his plan would push growth 5 or 6% while Democrat Hillary Clinton’s plan would push economy to contraction. Generating growth that high would mean working against demographics Trump claims he can create enough jobs to overcome a projection that his plans would take federal debt to 105% percent of GDP. But non-partisan Cmte for a Responsible Federal Budget, which made the projection, says that to balance the budget under Trump’s plan, "growth would need to reach a sus

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