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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.
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