The US economy will come back regardless of how people feel about Washington.

The claim gives no exact date. It is judged at 2014-12-31, about four years after it was made. 'Come back' means the US economy recovers from the Great Recession. True: by the horizon, real GDP is above its pre-recession peak and payroll employment has regained, or come close to (within about 1%), its pre-recession peak, while unemployment has fallen substantially from its 2009–2010 highs. Mostly true: GDP has fully recovered and is growing, but employment is still somewhat short of its peak (1–3%). Mixed: output has recovered but the labor market clearly has not (more than 3% short of peak employment, with little fall in unemployment). Mostly false: there is only weak, partial recovery in both output and jobs. False: the economy falls back into recession, or does not grow, over the period.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Labor Market Still Far from Recovered Five Years after the Great Recession The Century Foundation (TCF) · 8 March 2016

   “In May 2014, total payroll employment edged above its peak at the start of the Great Recession, having recovered a bit more than the 8.7 million jobs that were rapidly shed in the aftermath of the housing bubble’s implosion.”

2. E2 Labor Market Still Far from Recovered Five Years after the Great Recession The Century Foundation (TCF) · 8 March 2016

   “Five years after the Great Recession ended, the labor market remains less than halfway recovered.”

3. E3 Labor Market Still Far from Recovered Five Years after the Great Recession The Century Foundation (TCF) · 8 March 2016

   “Instead, the unemployment rate—which has been quite the misleading economic indicator in recent years—decreased from 6.3 percent to 6.1 percent.”

The evidence shows payroll employment back above its pre-recession peak by May 2014 [E1] and an undated fall in unemployment from 6.3 to 6.1 percent [E3], while also describing the labor market as less than halfway recovered [E2]. No evidence item covers real GDP, which every verdict grade from mixed upward depends on, so the evidence does not settle the claim under the criteria.