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Twenty percent annual GDP growth is the number President Trump says the United States could reach, a rate the country has matched only once since World War II.
The claim arrived alongside an argument against Federal Reserve rate hikes, even as inflation sits above the central bank's 2% target.
| Metric | Level | Status | |---|---|---| | Trump growth projection | 20% | Projected; conditional | | Fed inflation target | 2% | Reported threshold | | Current U.S.
inflation | Above 2% | Reported | | Postwar instances of 20% U.S. GDP growth | 1 | Historical | The postwar count is one.
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