Even as the federal debt heads toward the highest level since World War II, Trump 2016 campaign adviser Arthur Laffer is less worried about the fiscal situation than he was in the Obama years.

Laffer, the economist widely regarded as the father of supply-side economics, said that President Trump is right to have the federal government borrow money now, while interest rates and the cost of the debt service are low, to pay for his policies.

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