White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow doubled down on his claim that the U.S. economy is recovering, despite coronavirus surges across the country.

“In some places job declines, job increases have been affected, I don't deny it, but it’s being made up by people calling back employees. So the joblessness rate is going to fall,” Kudlow said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Kudlow acknowledged that rising coronavirus cases in some states may moderate the level of recovery, but still painted a positive picture about recovery across the country.

“You can argue about the speed of [recovery,] I get that, and I don’t deny that some of these hotspots states are going to moderate that recovery, but on the whole the picture is very positive,” he said. “And I still think the V-shaped recovery is in place.”