Press Secretary

    We have reached a historic consensus to establish the U.S. Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. This is a first-of-its-kind economic partnership for the reconstruction and long-term success of the Ukrainian economy that will significantly benefit the United States and Americans. This partnership reflects the United States’ financial interest in securing Ukraine’s free, peaceful, and sovereign future. This partnership establishes a fund that will receive 50% of royalties, licensing fees, and other in-kind payments from natural resource projects in Ukraine. President Trump has been clear from the beginning. He wants to end the killing in this brutal war. This agreement shows how much the President cares about achieving lasting peace. To mark President Trump’s triumphant first 100 days, we have been sharing all week how President Trump has worked hard to fulfil the promises he made to the American people. And yesterday, the President once again showed why he is the most transparent and accessible President in American history when he held his fourth open cabinet meeting. Each cabinet secretary shared how their respective agencies are making life better for American families and businesses. President Trump’s entire agenda is based on one thing: common sense. While the Democrats were overreacting and increasingly insanity, President Trump promised to restore common sense to the United States. In over three months, that is precisely what he has done. He recognized that America is a sovereign nation that cannot survive without protecting its borders. So, he secured the borders in record time and ended the mass invasion of tens of millions of illegal immigrants into our homeland.

 

In our communities, that threatens our public safety. It is unacceptable for President Trump to allow rampant waste, fraud, and abuse of the American people’s precious technology tax dollars, which is why the President championed the historic Doge effort that has saved nearly 200 billion. President Trump knows America is blessed with abundant liquid gold beneath our feet in the form of fossil fuels. So, he is ending Joe Biden’s reckless war on American energy and restoring America’s energy dominance to lower costs and strengthen our national security. President Trump believes Americans should be free to drive whatever car they want. So he ended Joe Biden’s disastrous electric vehicle mandate and promoted real consumer choice. President Trump defended the Constitution’s promise of equal rights before the law regardless of skin colour. So, he ended radical DEI preferences and federal contracts and directed federal agencies to combat discrimination in the private sector relentlessly. DEI seeks to divide and pit Americans against each other based on characteristics that cannot be changed. President Trump knows that America’s children are our future and will never stop fighting for them. That’s why he ended the anti-American indoctrination that is eradicating children by eliminating support for radical, divisive gender and equality ideologies and why the President is protecting fundamental parental rights. And finally, the President believes in fundamental biology. Isn’t that something? That’s why he made it official policy of the United States Government that there are only two sexes, male and female. And because men and women are biologically different, President Trump ended the unfair and degrading practices that forced women to compete against men in sports and robbed them of their personal space.

 

 

 

One of the most significant crises that President Trump inherited upon taking office is a wave of racial discrimination and so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that have taken over public and private sector entities across the United States. Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is that our air traffic controllers are hired and promoted based on race and gender, not on their ability to direct our nation’s air traffic. President Trump has ended all hiring, retention, promotion, and training in the Federal Government based on race and gender. This includes our law enforcement agencies. So once again, when we take office, even in the sensitive areas of law enforcement, national security, and intelligence, we hire individuals not based on their ability to carry a gun, not on their ability to guard the protection of American citizens, not based on their ability to conduct sensitive intelligence operations, but on their race and gender. And that is unacceptable. It will be based on merit across the Federal Government. But this is not just the federal Government. This is the private sector and, of course, our entire university and educational system. So, President Trump’s Justice Department, working with other departments and agencies, has clarified that this administration will fully enforce Title Six, Title 7, and Title 9 of our federal civil rights code. This is an economic issue.

 

When you recruit, retain, and hire based on merit, as President Trump has directed, you advance innovation, growth, investment, job creation, and the best and safest products for all Americans. When citizens go to, say, a hospital in a medical emergency, they don’t care what race or gender their doctor or nurse is. They want the best care they can get in that emergency. When they fly an aeroplane or when they’re in an aeroplane, they want the pilot to be the best, the safest pilot, regardless of what race or gender the pilot is. This is true across Government. In particular, if you look at our university system, this administration has opened investigations into universities nationwide for misconduct, and we’ve talked a lot about the Supreme Court ruling.

 

Surgical castration, castration drugs, and sterilization treatments for children are all barbaric. They violate all good medical ethics. They are completely unconscionable. They harm children for life and are irreparable. It is child abuse. It is child torture. It is medical malpractice. So, the Department of Health and Human Services under Bobby Kennedy, the Department of Justice, and other departments in this administration made it very clear to our medical providers and our hospital systems that you cannot use taxpayer money to perform these barbaric procedures on American children. HHS has systematically updated and eliminated all the fake science that was produced under the Biden administration that promoted sex change in children and the idea of ​​sterilizing children. That’s been cleared.

 

The President is also fighting to return the Justice Department to its primary mission of protecting public safety and putting violent criminals in jail rather than using it to target conservatives, Christians, and people of faith. The last administration ruthlessly and shamefully used the power of the Justice Department to go after law-abiding Americans, especially Trump supporters, conservatives, and Christians. That persecution is over. The Justice Department and the FBI are back to their jobs of hunting down bad guys, going after gangs, going after criminals, and keeping Americans safe.

President Trump is addressing the trade crisis that is gripping this country with the destruction of our manufacturing and industrial base, the shameful betrayal of American workers by Joe Biden, and the globalists who are shipping our entire supply chain overseas. He is addressing the scourge of mass, unrestricted illegal immigration that is turning us into a failed third-world nation and achieving the lowest illegal immigration rates in recorded history, bar none. He is addressing the economic crisis that is gripping this country by reopening America’s energy by beating inflation, lowering gas prices, ending the assault and reversing the assault on federal regulation by reopening coal, shale, oil, natural gas, and fighting now for the most significant tax cuts and the biggest reforms and the biggest deregulation and the most significant energy reforms in American history.

 

No. So, China is in a unique situation.

 

Right now, the Treasury Secretary is in the process of developing a plan that will answer the questions that you’re asking. Still, the President’s intent is evident: he will not allow China to continue to steal our intellectual property, illegally dump and subsidize their goods in our markets, manipulate their currency, and create an unsustainable trade deficit. We need a trade relationship with China that is not detrimental to our economy and national security. That should be the guiding principle for every single one of our goals. At the same time, the tariffs will bring significant revenue into this country, allowing us to continue our dramatic tax cuts and reform plans.

 

    The U.S. auto industry used to dominate the world. I believe the numbers in its heyday were 70% of all the cars in the world were made in Michigan. And now, we are a tiny fraction of the global market. The reason is that the United States has opened its markets to every foreign swindler and country that subsidizes its goods on the face of the earth. And their markets have been closed to us. Japan has closed its markets to our cars. The entire European Union has closed its markets to our cars. South Korea has closed its markets to our vehicles. All the countries I just mentioned have annual trade deficits of tens of billions of dollars in autos with the United States. Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a letter to the Trump administration asking for slight business tax relief. They say it is necessary to save small businesses and prevent a recession. Stephen, is the administration considering slight business tax relief? The relief for small businesses would come from the most significant tax cut in American history. By the way, the tax cut is something that all Democrats plan to vote against. They are voting for a tax increase. Every middle-class family makes about $4,000. The President has clarified that 100% of the spending will be on investments in the United States. Companies that invest in the United States can deduct 100% of those expenses from their tax liability. This would be the most pro-small business tax bill in American history.

 

 

We’re opening mines all over the country. We’re also pursuing energy and mineral deals all over the world. Since the President issued his executive order also on coal deregulation, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in coal production in the United States. So, we’re tapping into the trillions of dollars of coal and mineral wealth in the United States. We’re a very mineral-rich country.

However, we’ll get that deal up and running as quickly as possible, but it’s meant to pay back the United States. I want to make another important point: many complaints about products being sold on Amazon are imitations of American products that China has stolen. Then they take the RIP, put it in the product, and try to undercut our manufacturers. So, as far as we’re concerned about the labelling issue on Amazon, I think the most important thing to fix is ​​to ensure that we’re not hurting the American consumer. And one more thing, Garcia, please. The administration is reportedly asking about his return. Is that to check a compliance box, or does President Trump want him back on U.S. soil or both? So, as Secretary Rubio said yesterday in a cabinet meeting, this administration will not publicly discuss the details of our foreign policy and negotiations with foreign countries.

 

    Secretary of State. Secretary Rubio is the person under the leadership and direction of the State Department who manages the day-to-day relationship with El Salvador. First, let’s take a moment to express our gratitude to El Salvador for agreeing to take some of the most dangerous terrorists off the streets of America and place them in a safe environment where they cannot continue to commit acts of terrorism or coordinate with the Maduro regime. President Trump, who our Democratic judges and Democratic activists are trying to keep on U.S. soil. The Daywa Train has the same legal status as al-Qaeda and ISIS. MS-13 has the same legal status as al-Qaeda and ISIS. They are foreign terrorists operating on our soil, and our gratitude to El Salvador for agreeing to detain these terrorists is enormous.

 

Someone who has extensive evidence of membership in MS-13, a terrorist organization. And, of course, he has MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles. This person is a clear and present danger to the safety of the American people. And it is a sad reflection on the state of our media and many of the outlets that are in this room that you are obsessively trying to defend these MS-13 terrorists. Well, there is no coverage in your newspapers of Americans being raped, tortured, and murdered by illegal immigrants that Biden has brought into our country. You know, you talk about due process. The Biden administration decided to grant extensive due process to two trained terrorists from Nagua who were arrested at the border just a few years ago. There were two men. They were from Venezuela. They were trained members of Nagua.

 

 

America today, Stephen, who says they can’t afford, in the words of the President, patience? Americans elected President Trump on the promise that he would lower prices across the board on day one. But he lowered prices across the board on day one. Well, last month, of course, groceries went up 4%. So, I mean, across the board, not just eggs. Inflation, as you acknowledge, is down dramatically. Gas prices are down dramatically. The latest GDP report showed a record 22% increase in investment in the United States. So everything and even egg prices, of course, which is all that’s been talked about for a couple of days, I think, are down like 80%. The reality is that we can either surrender economically to China or reclaim and shore up our manufacturing base and industrial needs.

 

 

And it’s not just in China. If there’s a national emergency, that’s the President’s first duty as commander in chief. If there’s any kind of national emergency, we can’t depend on foreign countries for steel, aluminium, energy, technology, and all the critical components we need to keep this country running. He’s fulfilled his duty as commander in chief that every President before him has failed to fulfil or has actively betrayed. And despite inheriting all of this, as I mentioned, inflation is down, jobs are up, and in particular, by the way, jobs for American workers. So, for the first time, you look at this jobs report, and the number of Government workers is down, artificially inflating the previous jobs. Jobs for non-citizens are down. Jobs for American citizens are skyrocketing. The President acknowledged that you might have to pay for toys and a little more for the dolls he was talking about. So, in terms of what he was saying, he was making a point that I think almost every American consumer would agree with if they were given a choice between a and I’m a parent of young children. A choice between a doll from China that might have lead paint in it that’s not as well made as a doll that’s made in America that has higher environmental standards and regulations and one that’s made to a higher level of quality and both of those products are on Amazon.