Mr Obama said that his draft $3.6tn (£2.5tn) budget, which will be tested in Congress this week, would build a stronger economy.

"We're going to stay with it as long as I'm in this office... Four years from now, I think, hopefully, people will judge that body of work and say: 'This is a big ocean liner. It's not a speedboat. It doesn't turn around immediately. But we're in a better place because of the decisions that we made'."

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