Larry Kudlow rips the person who wrote the NYT op-ed, delivers impassioned speech about serving in Trump White House
Kate Rooney | @Kr00ney
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White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow denied writing an anonymous New York Times editorial this week, and had strong words for whoever did.
"I am honored to be in this position," Kudlow said on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Friday, adding that he's devoted and "honored" to be working for the President.
He called for whoever did write the piece to "come out of the woodwork," so they could work with the president, instead of against him.
Other government officials have raced to deny that they were the anonymous author. The nearly 1,000-word column, published Wednesday afternoon, described a secret crusade by officials inside the Trump administration to "thwart parts of [the president's] agenda and his worst inclinations."
The Times column ran just one day after excerpts from journalist Bob Woodward's upcoming book about the Trump administration, which kicked off rounds of finger-pointing in Washington Wednesday night.
Kudlow pointed to Friday's jobs report as a positive byproduct of Trump's policies.
The economy added more jobs than expected in August, and wage growth posted its biggest increase of the economic recovery in August. Payroll gains beat expectations and the unemployment rate held near a generational low of 3.9 percent, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday.
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Kate Rooney
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