“Our border is under siege, our currency is losing value, energy independence is wasted.

The socialist government has brought our great, growing economy to an abrupt halt, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying at an event of the Young America Foundation in Washington.

Pence added that the US authorities "have never been so far from the values" declared in the country.

Earlier, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in an interview with NBC, acknowledged the slowdown in the United States economy.