President Donald Trump is putting through “very sensible, good supply side economic policies,” especially when it comes to government spending, economist Art Laffer, who served as an adviser to former President Ronald Reagan, tells Newsmax.

“Government spending is a problem,” Laffer told Tuesday’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight” Tuesday. “Government is important, but not this big of a government isn’t. We need to trim it down a lot, cut it down.”

But he disagreed with Schmitt, who said the country is “going through the pain of that process.”

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