From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains.

President Trump made some pretty bold campaign statements.

But one of them received particularly high criticism from the left and high praise from the right.

And that regards GDP growth.

That's why I believe it's time to establish a national goal of reaching 4% economic growth.

And my great economists don't want me to say this, but I think we can do better than that.

GDP, or gross domestic product product is defined as the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. It measures businesses, households, government

spending, exports, while subtracting our imports or foreign products.

And while not perfect, it seems a reliable guide as to the general health of the economy.

But one thing is safe to say, the higher growth, the better Americans are.

Last Friday, when the Commerce Department announced that GDP grew by 4.1%, the White

House took a victory lap because many thought this number was almost impossible to reach.

Now, many on the right are using this to push for more pro-growth policies like tax reform and

regulation reduction. This is another big Trump win.

He went to the country, got elected on the slogan,

make America great again.

We clearly now do have a great economy.

The economy is looking up.

The Commerce Department reporting 4.1% growth in the second quarter.

It's the best performance we've seen in nearly

four years, with businesses and consumers spending more. It is sustainable. We've lowered tax rates,

we've rolled back regulations, we've unleashed energy, we're moving to fix a broken world

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