Oct. 16, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| The Democrats appear perfectly happy to keep the political theater going while real people suffer. | ||
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The Air Force has been my way of the highway from the very beginning. | |
| We've got to get the lights turned back on. | ||
| The Republicans can talk all the political stuff they want. | ||
| We're on the side of the American people. | ||
| Live look at Capitol Hill as the government shutdown rolls into day 16. | ||
| Senate Democrats rejecting a measure to fund the government for the 10th time. | ||
| Both political parties playing the blame game, slamming each other for the shutdown. | ||
| The more things change, the more they stay the same, it seems. | ||
| I'm John Roberts in Washington. | ||
| Welcome to Friday Eve, Sandra. | ||
| Oh, you have me there. | ||
| I heard Friday, and then the eve came. | ||
| All right, I'm Sandra Smith in New York, and this is America Reports. | ||
| Good to be with you, John. | ||
| Sweeping federal layoffs have already begun amid the government shutdown, but a Clinton-appointed judge put them to a halt, filing a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration. | ||
| All right, let's bring in White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, who was just with the president moments ago, so we'll have the latest news from him. | ||
| We want to ask you about the Putin phone call, which I assume uh has uh been concluded. | ||
| But want to ask you first of all about Judge Susan Ilman, a Clinton appointee, district judge, uh, on the federal bench in San Francisco, who was yet again implemented a nationwide temporary restraining order on what the White House believes is its constitutional authority to cut down the federal government during the shutdown. | ||
| Well, the White House believes this, John, because it's just the truth. | ||
| The president is the head of the executive branch, and therefore he has the right to hire and fire executive branch employees. | ||
| And unfortunately, the administration has taken the tough step to lay off thousands of workers across the federal government because the Democrats have selfishly chosen to shut our government down in the name of partisan politics. | ||
| And now you have this far-left district court democrat-appointed judge who literally just uses politics from the bench and has no legal rationale for this nationwide temporary restraining order, and she is now blocking the administration from doing what the Supreme Court has already affirmed the president of the United States can do. | ||
| In fact, this very same judge out of Liberal San Francisco in May illegally ruled that the administration and the president does not have the right to fire executive branch employees. | ||
| And the Supreme Court smacked this judge down in July. | ||
| She is wrong. | ||
| She is doing this for political reasons. | ||
| And the Democrats know that they can judge shop. | ||
| They can court shop. | ||
| They can go to this woman because she is a far left hack and she uses politics from the bench. | ||
| We are very confident we are going to win this temporary restraining order. | ||
| And the Trump administration will continue to try to fight through this shutdown and get the government back open so we can get people back to work. | ||
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Not a yes, sir. | |
| Not a follow up. | ||
| Fit the box, fit the mold, have a seat. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Think a number. | ||
| I was lightning before the thunder. | ||
| Thunder, thunder. | ||
| Lightning and the thunder. | ||
| Twitter? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Are you ready? | ||
| You all said? | ||
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Let's go. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| This is very exciting what we're doing. | ||
| I want to thank everybody for being here, and I want to thank this group of people. | ||
| They're incredible people. | ||
| We just had a call, as you know, with President Putin. | ||
| I thought it was a very good call, so we'll talk about it maybe later. | ||
| But it went very well. | ||
| We're here today to announce a historic victory for American women, mothers, and families with the actions I will outline this afternoon will dramatically slash the cost of IVF and the treatment and uh many of the most common fertility drugs for countless millions of Americans. | ||
| Prices are going way down, way, way down. | ||
| I want to thank Libby Horn, who is the senior vice president of fertility of EMD Serrano. | ||
| So I want to thank you. | ||
| Let's see here. | ||
| That's what I thought. | ||
| Thank you, Libby, very much. | ||
| And let me also thank the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose wife destroyed the people on the view yesterday. | ||
| Have to say that. | ||
| She's she's I'm not gonna ever get into an argument with her. | ||
| And you've decided you learned that a long time ago. | ||
| She did a great job, actually. | ||
| Uh Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnik, thank you, Howard. | ||
| Secretary of Labor, Laurie Chavez De Rimer. | ||
| Thanks, Laurie. | ||
| Howard, thanks. | ||
| CMS administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who's fantastic guy, and he's done really well. | ||
| FDA Commissioner Marty McCarry. | ||
| Thank you, Marty. | ||
| Senator Katie Britt, who got me started with this whole thing when she called up to say there was a bad ruling by a judge, right? | ||
| We got to do something, sir, and we did we did it very quickly, probably in 24 hours it was done. | ||
| Congressman Richard Hudson, a great guy, and his wife Renee. | ||
| Richard, hi Richard. | ||
| And uh Advocate Samantha Bush, who's a very respected person. | ||
| For years, American couples struggling with infertility have faced crushing costs in their quest to start a family, and IVF is among the most expensive treatments of all. | ||
| A single round of IA VF in the United States can cost up to $25,000, can actually go a lot higher than that. | ||
| And many couples require multiple rounds for a successful pregnancy. | ||
| Major reason for these high prices is the excessive cost of the drugs involved. | ||
| The number one fertility drug used in IVF is currently 700% more expensive in the United States than the rest of the world. | ||
| And you know we're ending all of that. | ||
| It's called favorite nations, and we're ending it and we're ending it pretty fast. | ||
| Nobody thought we'd be able to do it, and we've done it. | ||
| Drugs are gonna come down, drug prices are coming down. | ||
| 400%, 200%, 600%, numbers that nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| Great for Medicare, Medicaid, even Social Security, great for everything, I think, Dr. Ross. | ||
| So uh that's something that's to me it's very exciting. | ||
| I'm bugging him and Bobby all the time. | ||
| How are we doing with that? | ||
| And we're doing really good, Bobby. | ||
| It's really going good. | ||
| Other countries are agreeing to it because if they don't, we put them put tariffs on them. | ||
| And then they agree, so it's amazing. | ||
| It's amazing how that worked out. | ||
| But uh in as an example, in London, you'd buy a certain drug for 130 dollars, and even less than that, I guess 88 dollars as of account a month ago. | ||
| And in New York, you pay $1,300 for the same thing. | ||
| So now we're gonna be paying uh instead of $1,300, you'll be paying about $150. | ||
| And they'll be paying $150, too. | ||
| We're gonna pay the same thing. | ||
| Favorite nations. | ||
| beautiful. | ||
| It's a beautiful thing. | ||
| And we've been ripped off by the whole world for a long period of time. | ||
| One of the most popular fertility drug regimens costs over $5,000 per cycle, as an example. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Largely as a result of these unsustainable prices. | ||
| 70% of the employers do not offer insurance that covers IVF. | ||
| Therefore, most couples with fertility challenges are paying these costs entirely out of their own pockets, which is not really possible to do. | ||
| Oh, look who we have. | ||
| Look at uh the great Maria Botaroma. | ||
| I didn't know. | ||
| Did you get put into the regular pool pack? | ||
| That's very good. | ||
| Yeah, that's good. | ||
| Nice to see you. | ||
| I'm doing an interview with her a little while. | ||
| Uh in the Trump administration, we want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children, and start the families that always dreamed about. | ||
| That's why today I'm pleased to announce that after extensive negotiations, EMD Sorrano, the largest fertility drug manufacturer in the world has agreed to provide massive discounts to all fertility drugs they sell in the United States, including the most popular drug of all, the uh IVF drug. | ||
| So it's go no left. | ||
| Is that a proper pronunciation? | ||
| Close enough, right? | ||
| Go no left. | ||
| As part of this agreement, EMD Sorrano will list their fertility drugs online at TrumpRx.gov at very, very heavily reduced prices, prices that you won't even believe. | ||
| And ultimately that's because of the favorite nations. | ||
| In addition, the FDA will be working with the company to expedite review and approval of another common fertility IVF drug, and currently it's selling in Europe. | ||
| It's pergoverious. | ||
| Pergo virus. | ||
| And uh that's a sound nice name. | ||
| Purgo virus. | ||
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Why can't you name them nice simple names? | |
| Nice easy nation. | ||
| Doesn't matter. | ||
| If it works, that's all we care about, right? | ||
| Upon approval, this drug would directly compete against a much more expensive option that currently has a monopoly in the American market, and this will bring down costs very significantly. | ||
| And the other one's gonna have to come down also. | ||
| Finally, EMD Serrano has agreed that all future drugs and everything that it develops and sells in the United States will be offset at most favored nation prices. | ||
| I've been after this for a long time. | ||
| And we started the process in the last administration, and then we had a little thing called COVID that came up. | ||
| We had a focus on that, did a good job in that too. | ||
| And they'll bring a significant portion of their drug manufacturing back to the United States. | ||
| So they're gonna bring it largely back into the United States, and that's for a lot of reasons, but uh primarily because of the election result, November 5th, and maybe most importantly because of the tariffs, because if they do it here, there are no tariffs. | ||
| So we have we're gonna be very close, I think by the end of this uh year, we're gonna be very close to 20 trillion dollars in investment. | ||
| As an example, the Biden administration had uh less than one trillion dollars, substantially less than one trillion for four years, Maria. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| Four years, less than one. | ||
| We're gonna break 20 trillion dollars of investment, and we're already over 17 trillion, and that's in eight months. | ||
| Can you believe that? | ||
| And he was at less than one trillion. | ||
| And in addition to that, he had open borders allowing millions of people to pour in water in administration. | ||
| That was worst president in history by far. | ||
| As a result of these actions, the per cycle cost of drugs used in IVF will fall by an estimated $73% for American consumers, and the numbers are gonna actually be very substantially higher as time goes by when it really kicks in. | ||
| For most of I mean, think of those numbers. | ||
| You know, I told the story last time because we were with Pfizer and Pfizer's doing something very similar. | ||
| But I told them uh that my first term I was so proud of myself because I was the first president in 28 years where drug prices went down for the year. | ||
| And you know what they went down? | ||
| One eighth of one percent. | ||
| But I was so one eighth of one percent. | ||
| Now I'm getting them down, Maria, 500, 600, 800%. | ||
| In some cases, even more than that. | ||
| It's hard to believe. | ||
| But I was proud. | ||
| I said, oh wow, I'm the first one. | ||
| One eighth of one percent. | ||
| And I was proud of that. | ||
| Now I realize, and I called the news conference. | ||
| Some of you are at that news conference, actually. | ||
| And I said, ladies and gentlemen, congratulations. | ||
| We've gone down by one eighth of one percent. | ||
| And now we're going down five, six, seven hundred, eight hundred percent, Richard. | ||
| So it's really something. | ||
| For most administrations and all of the people involved in this kind of thing, this action would be a crowning achievement of their agenda for fertility health. | ||
| But for us, it's really just the beginning, it's just a start. | ||
| It's one of many things we're doing. | ||
| Today, we're also taking historic steps to vastly expand access to insurance coverage for fertility care, including IVF, something that, as you know, was not covered, effective immediately for the first time ever. | ||
| We will make it legal for companies to offer supplemental insurance plans specifically for fertility that's never been done before. | ||
| We're signing it in today with what we signed. | ||
| Americans will be able to opt in to specialized coverage just as they get uh vision and dental insurance, they're gonna get fertility insurance for the first time. | ||
| So I don't know, you know, I don't know how well these things are covered. | ||
| I you know, I see the the Democrats like to take credit for all of the things we do. | ||
| We do the things and they take the credit. | ||
| But I figure if you do enough of these, you eventually people are gonna figure it out. | ||
| The Democrats have done nothing. | ||
| This will make all fertility care, including IVF, far more affordable and accessible, and by providing coverage at every step of the way, it will reduce the number of people who ultimately need to resort to IVF because couples will be able to identify and address problems early. | ||
| The result will be healthier pregnancies, healthier babies, and many more beautiful American children. | ||
| It's a big factor, it's a big deal. | ||
| I'm asking all employers to make these new fertility benefit options available to their employees immediately. | ||
| The initiatives I've just announced are the boldest and most significant actions ever taken by any president to bring the miracle of life into more American homes. | ||
| And I will say Katie was uh great, as you know, she's a great senator from Alabama. | ||
| She's the first one that told me about this. | ||
| I had not known too much about it, and we worked very rapidly together, didn't we though? | ||
| We had everything passed, and Alabama then took care of it and passed it within a week. | ||
| Everything was done. | ||
| Really, it was something. | ||
| So I want to thank Katie Brett. | ||
| Uh there's no deeper happiness and joy of raising children, and now millions of Americans struggling with infertility will have a new chance to share the greatest experience of them all. | ||
| So I'd like to thank all of the people that are here, and I think we'll start with Dr. Oz and uh Miss Horn, and we'll go through the list and we'll uh listen. | ||
| And yesterday I did this, and I stood for about an hour and a half as people spoke. | ||
| And they said, This time I'm sitting right there, and I'm gonna watch you. | ||
| I stood for an hour and a half like this. | ||
| I said, You gotta be kidding. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| It was one after another, and it was wonderful listening to them. | ||
| But I said, if I have to do this every day, Bobby, should I stand or sit? | ||
| Thank you, Bob. | ||
| Uh please, Dr. Ross. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Mr. President, I'm gonna jump in here real quick. | ||
| I want to start by thanking President Trump. | ||
| Sir, from the very first phone call we ever had. | ||
| Your support was strong. | ||
| It was steadfast, it was unwavering. | ||
| And because of you, millions of Americans are going to have a greater opportunity to bring the greatest Gift, in my opinion, life into this world. | ||
| Your support, your administration's support, it's a game changer. | ||
| All of us here today are aligned. | ||
| This is a celebration of life. | ||
| It's a celebration of parents. | ||
| It's a celebration of families. | ||
| And it's a celebration for those people who want to one day be parents themselves. | ||
| I think every parent can attest, and I certainly do myself, that the greatest gift that God has ever given me is the ability to be a mom. | ||
| We want more people to have that opportunity. | ||
| We want to make that easier and more affordable. | ||
| IVF is what makes the difference for so many families that are facing infertility. | ||
| So you've seen the numbers. | ||
| It's either one in eight couples or some people say as much as one in six are actually experiencing issues with fertility. | ||
| It's 9% of males and at least 11% of females that are facing these challenges as they work to build their family. | ||
| The recommendations today that President Trump has set forth are going to expand IVF coverage to nearly a million more families. | ||
| And they're going to drive down cost significantly. | ||
| Mr. President, this is the most pro-IVF thing that any president in the history of the United States of America has done. | ||
| And Mr. President, it's your leadership. | ||
| You are the reason why the Republican Party is now the party of parents. | ||
| We are the party of families. | ||
| This is why when Senator Cruz and I worked last year, we got every single Republican senator to sign on and say that they supported nationwide access to IVF. | ||
| And just for the record, IVF is legal and accessible in all 50 states. | ||
| And President Trump taking this action today to lower cost, to bring these issues to the forefront, and to enact solutions for people working to start their families. | ||
| I want you to know it's significant and there's more to come. | ||
| But this isn't the only thing that you've done to prove that we're the party of parents and we're the party of families. | ||
| If you look at the working family tax cut, guys, he made sure that hard working parents were front and center in that legislation. | ||
| You know, whether it was child tax credits being expanded and made permanent, whether it was Trump accounts that are gonna change the game for so many parents, or whether it was child care. | ||
| So for decades, we have heard Democrats talk about child care. | ||
| President Trump actually took action on the affordability and accessibility of child care. | ||
| We know that one in four families say that they hesitate to have more children because of the cost, and because of child care cost. | ||
| For the first time, this man actually took steps to change the dynamics for hardworking parents. | ||
| So of the three tax credits that he reformed and the working families' tax cuts, two of them had not been touched in two decades, and one of them had not been touched since 1986. | ||
| So President Reagan was in office the last time anybody did anything about it. | ||
| But you changed the game on that, and I was proud to lead that effort in the Senate. | ||
| And so, on behalf of moms and dads, on behalf of grandparents and sisters and aunts and uncles and brothers and people who are looking to expand their family, we say thank you. | ||
| Thank you for all you do to support families in this country and make a healthier environment and an easier one for us to grow the very most important thing. | ||
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God bless. | |
| So nice, thank you. | ||
| So let's set the stage. | ||
| Put it in perspective two weeks ago, as President Trump alluded, a leading U.S. drug manufacturer came into this role and agreed to do something none of us thought was possible. | ||
| A most favored nation agreement with numbers again, inconceivable. | ||
| Last week, a leading country, a company from Europe, a global leader in the pharmaceutical sector, came to this office, made the same kind of commitment for most favored nation uh pricing. | ||
| Again, because the president insisted on it and was persistent, and he alluded to the fact that he was calling Secretary Kennedy and me quite a bit. | ||
| He definitely was with great insights into the process and would not hold back. | ||
| But I think what you're seeing today is something even larger. | ||
| It's larger because we're now showing that MFN is a tool that can get other initiatives going as well. | ||
| We are revealing perhaps the most important MFN opportunity at all because it's about procreation. | ||
| It's about babies. | ||
| It turns out that MFN is a tool for a lot of things. | ||
| Uh and it goes without saying that you get the drug pricing down, but lots of other business necessities become possible when that occurs. | ||
| So Secretary Kennedy and I, who's a wonderful leader, talk frequently about family. | ||
| I think the reason he is a great leader and president as well is because they have large families and they they take pride in the joy that it gives us. | ||
| But many families, as Senator Britt alluded to, do not have the ability to have children. | ||
| But it turns out that it's about one in three families, a much higher number, that don't have the number of babies they desire. | ||
| They're underbabied. | ||
| So this president committed to address that during the campaign, and he is delivering on that today in a way I don't think anyone thought was possible. | ||
| We are opening the door with MFN pricing and tariffs that support it, Secretary Lutnik, with a new approach to make reproductive medicine more affordable for Americans. | ||
| Now I know what you're all thinking, and you're probably right, there are gonna be a lot of trunk babies. | ||
| I think that's probably a good thing. | ||
| But it turns out the fundamental creative force in society is about making babies. | ||
| It's about creating. | ||
| And this country, the one that President Trump is leading so beautifully, has been a country of abundance, not scarcity. | ||
| To have abundance, you have to address the fact that we had 3.6 million babies last year, which is beautiful. | ||
| 3.6 million miracles. | ||
| That's half a million less babies than we would ideally have had, even to replace our current population. | ||
| Building on the success of the last two weeks, our team, led by the head of Medicare, Chris Klump, who's standing over there, and Inno Hernandez have negotiated a spectacular MFN deal to reduce the cost of IVF drug prices by $2200 a cycle. | ||
| That's nearly half of the price that it had been. | ||
| The most uh prescribed drug in this category in America, made by M.D. Serrano, is described over here, and you'll notice uh President Trump, these are a discounted from 242 dollars to $10. | ||
| I don't know what the math is on that. | ||
| We can't even calculate it. | ||
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A lot. | |
| It's a lot. | ||
| It's a bit it's too high to calculate uh without a more studied approach. | ||
| But I give it up there because that number of $10 will apply for every American who earns less than 115,000 a year. | ||
| That's 70% of the American people. | ||
| The remaining folks who are able to make more will have to pay a tiny bit more, but it's still most favored nation pricing, no different from what the Europeans are willing to pay. | ||
| Now, to make this deal happen, Chris and Inma have to do something special. | ||
| They have to actually not just get the drug price down but get the middlemen to let it go as well. | ||
| And Mr. President, we met with the middlemen in the past. | ||
| They're now joining the MFN movement. | ||
| I want to thank Express Scripts Freedom Pharmacy and then C of S's specialty pharmacy because they were willing to stand up and do the right thing for the American people by answering the president's call and slashing their prices. | ||
| Now, this announcement also encompasses a remarkable move from uh Marty McCary, and Marty uh McCary is, of course, the leader of the FDA, but he's has ongoing efforts, efforts to accelerate their approval of innovative medicines that will further reduce the price and make this whole process more seamless for the American people. | ||
| Now, you're about to hear about a spectacular new program that's been alluded to, uh, but one of the architects of that program, Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, is going to take us through the exciting details of what this is going to offer for the American people, especially those who are in the workforce. | ||
| But first, we think you should hear from Libby Horn. | ||
| Libby's EMD Serrano's head of fertility. | ||
| She brings both professional expertise and a personal connection to this work. | ||
| She has three beautiful daughters, and she has personally benefited from reproductive medicine that has shaped her family and her company made today's spectacular MFM pricing possible. | ||
| Libby. | ||
| Thank you, Dr. Ross. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Today, we gather on this national stage to celebrate a historic step forward in expanding access to fertility treatments for those who need it most. | ||
| Mr. President, thanks to your leadership and the tireless efforts of your team. | ||
| This is a momentous day for Americans who struggle but remain hopeful to build their families. | ||
| Infertility is on the rise in our country. | ||
| One in eight couples face infertility. | ||
| This isn't just a number. | ||
| It's real lives, dreams, and aspirations of hardworking Americans. | ||
| The teacher who goes to school each day, surrounded by children, but aching for children of her own. | ||
| The firefighter who puts his life on the line, but can't create the life he wants at home. | ||
| The consequences of these challenges can take significant tolls. | ||
| Some of you watching today have given up or are frustrated because access to IVF treatments has been out of reach. | ||
| That's why expanding access to IVF has been an issue of great importance to the president. | ||
| He made this clear in his executive order, declaring the administration's goal of supporting American families by enabling access and eliminating barriers to IVF. | ||
| Today, EMD Serono is proud to help President Trump deliver on his promise to you. | ||
| Thanks to your thank thanks to the President's leadership, EMD Serono has worked alongside distributors and other partners to help more families have access to services and innovations that are consistent with other countries. | ||
| Through our partnership with the administration, we are proud to announce that Americans will have access to our leading IVF therapies for an 84% discount off lifts prices. | ||
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It's amazing. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Congress. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for making this possible. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| For more than 40 years, EMD Serono has been a global leader in fertility. | ||
| Our science was instrumental in the birth of the first IVF baby in the U.S., and we've helped to bring more than six million babies into the world since then. | ||
| Our purpose is to help create, improve, and prolong life. | ||
| That means discovering more medicines and bringing them to patients faster. | ||
| FDA Commissioner McCarry has made it a priority to ensure that Americans have access to the world's most innovative treatments as quickly as possible. | ||
| To that end, EMD Serono is filing a new IVF therapy called Pergavaris for review under the FDA Commissioner's National Priority Voucher Program. | ||
| If approved, Pergavaris would combine two key reproductive hormones in synergy designed to mimic reproductive physiology. | ||
| This therapeutic option could mean fewer injections, fewer copies, and lower self-pay cost, all of which make a real difference in the IVF patient experience. | ||
| In closing, on behalf of EMD Serono, I want to send my heartfelt thanks to President Trump and the entire administration for their leadership and vision in this critical area of health care. | ||
| Together, we will make a difference in the lives of countless families across this nation and uphold our long-standing legacy of creating life. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Senator. | ||
| Mr. President, thank you for your bold leadership that's allowed our teams to go far beyond what anyone thought was possible. | ||
| On behalf of the Domestic Policy Council and Vince Haley here, we would like to also thank all the agency partners and the stakeholders that we worked with to get to the solution today that will make a real impact for families. | ||
| Specifically, today's historic actions, four in total that you see, are made possible by coordination of all of the White House team and seven agencies, many of who are represented here and their teams that have worked tirelessly. | ||
| As you described, Mr. President, the current system isn't working. | ||
| Seven in ten Americans don't have coverage to IVF. | ||
| They face high costs and uncertain outcomes. | ||
| And there's intense demand for fertility benefits. | ||
| 65% of Americans say that they would leave their current Job just because of fertility benefits. | ||
| So you asked us to lower costs and to fix the broken incentives in health care. | ||
| In addition to lowering the cost of drugs by 73% or $2,200 per cycle, which, if you missed it, most people require two or three cycles. | ||
| So it's significant savings for families. | ||
| I'm also going to briefly outline the new solution for coverage. | ||
| This is a new fertility benefit option that employers can immediately offer to their employees starting today. | ||
| This afternoon, the departments of labor, health and human services, and treasury will be releasing guidance that for the first time creates a legal pathway for employers to offer fertility benefit packages to people that need them, similar to how dental, vision, and life insurance are currently offered. | ||
| This will be followed up by a regulation. | ||
| These benefits can address the continuum of fertility needs from the root causes of IVF, which Secretary Kennedy is working on very hard at HHS, to it'll be a coordinated package that does not exist in traditional health insurance today. | ||
| It'll make it easier for employers, including small and mid-sized employers to compete for talented employees. | ||
| Currently, many small businesses cannot afford to offer fertility benefits at all. | ||
| This is making it possible for them to offer benefits the same way that large companies like Amazon and others offer benefits. | ||
| This is a pro-family benefit expansion that will transform clinical outcomes by addressing fragmented coverage and care. | ||
| I'm a physician by training, and it's very important that we have high quality care. | ||
| Fertility benefit companies are poised to offer packages that have reported so far roughly 25% higher live birth rates for those that seek care compared to those that don't have such benefits. | ||
| They also report fewer cycles to achieve pregnancy, improved natural pregnancy rates through better care before you need IVF, and reduced chance of miscarriages, a 21% reduction in miscarriage rate. | ||
| Leading physicians in the field have also relayed that these types of benefits significantly improve the patient and doctor experience, allowing both to focus on care rather than navigating the bureaucracy. | ||
| These impacts are very personal. | ||
| Here with us today are my good friends, Congressman Richard Hudson of North Carolina and his wife Renee Hudson. | ||
| Both have worked in public service for years, including Renee for all four years of your past administration, Mr. President, and they struggled with infertility. | ||
| Today they have a beautiful son who's their pride and joy. | ||
| He's an amazing boy, but they also suffered multiple losses throughout their fertility journey, something that is very common. | ||
| Unfortunately, too many people go through the hard arduous process of IVF and still result in the miscarriage. | ||
| So today, your option is not only saving money, it's going to improve the quality of care significantly. | ||
| This new benefit option simultaneously represents the greatest opportunity to expand coverage of IVF that the federal government has ever taken while also improving the care delivered. | ||
| Additionally, and very importantly, it gives employers maximum flexibility to design benefits that are consistent with their values. | ||
| Put simply, this new fertility benefit option means lower costs and more healthy babies. | ||
| So today, this announcement, we are realigning the industry towards the simple metric of more healthy babies at lower costs. | ||
| I would now like to introduce Samantha Bush, the wife of NASCAR driver Kyle Bush, who's been a leading advocate for IVF access and affordability after your own infertility journey. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Hello everyone. | ||
| My husband, Kyle and I battled infertility for over a decade before being blessed with our two beautiful children, Brexton, who's 10, and our daughter Lennox, who's now three. | ||
| But our journey was long and painful. | ||
| We faced six rounds of IVF, multiple miscarriages, multiple failed cycles, and countless moments of heartbreak. | ||
| We faced the roller coaster of hope and devastation that so many families know all too well. | ||
| Through it all, we held on to faith, each other, and the belief that somehow, someday, God would turn our pain into purpose. | ||
| We also saw firsthand the staggering financial Burden that comes with infertility treatments. | ||
| Sitting in the waiting room of our fertility clinic, we overheard another couple quietly say that money was the only thing standing in their way of having their family. | ||
| In that moment, Kyle and I looked at each other and we knew God was planting a seed in our hearts, a calling to take action. | ||
| In 2015, that calling became the Bundle of Joy Fund, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to providing financial assistance to couples struggling with infertility. | ||
| What began as a small act of faith has now grown into something far greater than we could have ever imagined. | ||
| To date, we've granted over $2 million directly to individuals, helping them pay for their IVF treatments, and we've celebrated the birth of 108 beautiful babies through our fund. | ||
| Each baby is a living, breathing testament to hope, community, and God's grace. | ||
| For every tear we cried for every shot we gave, every doctor's appointment that ended in disappointment, Kyle and I knew there had to be a greater reason. | ||
| This was God's plan for us to use our journey to advocate, empower, and be the voice to those battling in silence. | ||
| Over the past 12 years, we've worked hard to raise awareness, erase stigma, and bring hope to the one in six couples that will face infertility. | ||
| Infertility can be incredibly isolating. | ||
| It can leave you questioning your faith, your body, and your future. | ||
| But it can also reveal a strength that you never knew you had inside of you. | ||
| It can deepen love, it can bring couples closer together, and it unites people through a shared struggle. | ||
| Our goal has always been to show others that they are not alone, that there is a powerful community of infertility warriors behind them. | ||
| Today, seeing President Trump acknowledge the infertility acknowledged infertility on a national stage is profoundly moving. | ||
| It's a no longer a whispered conversation behind closed doors. | ||
| It is a recognized, validated struggle that so many families have to endure. | ||
| His leadership reminds us that those in positions of power can make real and lasting changes for generations to come. | ||
| Their willingness to bring this issue forward shows that they not only hear our community, but they truly care about us. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President, and to your family for shining a light on infertility and for standing by couples like Kyle and I, for standing by couples who only want to hear the words mommy and daddy, who want to watch our children open their Christmas presents on Christmas morning, who want to see the world anew through the joy in their kids'eyes. | ||
| Your acknowledgment honors the power of family, faith, and love. | ||
| The very values that make America the greatest country in the world. | ||
| It's proof that when promises are made and promises are kept, lives are changed forever. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Anybody else? | ||
| Howard, we would like to say that one. | ||
| I was hoping we would say that. | ||
| What a job you're doing. | ||
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Say a few words. | |
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Thank you for your vision and your commitment to our country. | ||
| When my uncle was president, fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. | ||
| Today it is 1.6%. | ||
| The replacement rate, in other words, the amount of fertility that you need in order to keep your population even is 2.1%. | ||
| We are below replacement right now. | ||
| That is a national security threat to our country. | ||
| And we know why this is happening. | ||
| And President Trump is addressing the root causes through his Maha agenda of reducing endocrine disruptors, the exposure to chemicals that decrease fertility. | ||
| Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of their sperm count. | ||
| 50% of the testosterone is a 65-year-old man. | ||
| Our girls are hitting puberty six years earlier. | ||
| Parents who want to have children do not have access. | ||
| I have seven children. | ||
| And I can't imagine how different my life would be if I did not have that blessing. | ||
| I want to point out also this morning Harvard University released a study that showed that the obesity rates have now climbed over 70%. | ||
| And this again is for the same reason we're flooding our kids. | ||
| We're poisoning a mass gener a generation, mass poisoning a generation of kids with chemicals. | ||
| President Trump has instructed us to stop these problems that root cause. | ||
| He's also recognized that there are people who are injured. | ||
| People who are not living their life to the fullest. | ||
| And he's addressing that last week we made GLP drugs available at most favored nation. | ||
| And this week it's IVF. | ||
| I want to thank you so much for that, Mr. President. | ||
| I saw on an airplane the other day. | ||
| You said that you didn't believe that you were going to get to heaven. | ||
| you're doing God's work here. | ||
| You've made peace in the Middle East, which is beyond anybody's imagination. | ||
| And now you're giving millions of Americans a chance to have babies. | ||
| And you're doing this while the government is locked down. | ||
| But this administration has not stopped working for the American people. | ||
| And that's because of your energy, your commitment, your vision. | ||
| And I want to thank you for allowing me to be part of it. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| And he's doing a great job. | ||
| And by the way, uh Kyle is fantastic. | ||
| So what a he's got a lot of courage. | ||
| I wouldn't do that. | ||
| I wouldn't care. | ||
| Howard, you and I would not be good at that. | ||
| We'd go about 30 miles an hour. | ||
| But we'd be safe. | ||
| Anyway, so uh thank you very much. | ||
| Uh any questions, please? | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| You posted earlier because Mr. President, this is a major campaign promise that you made it a big hot topic towards the end of the election. | ||
| You're delivering on that again. | ||
| I actually had a question for Secretary Kennedy or Dr. Heidi. | ||
| Dr. Heidi, you said something that I thought was really important. | ||
| You talked about how this coverage options benefit option gives companies the maximum flexibility to design uh benefits consistent to their values. | ||
| I was wondering if whether you or the president could expand on that and talk about why that's an important thing to understand about this program. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's a great question. | ||
| We think that employers are best situated to know what what them and their employees are want to contribute to in relation to their benefits. | ||
| So employers are going to be able to decide how to cover the root causes of infertility, things like obesity, metabolic health, and other things that are impacting infertility. | ||
| And also if they want to encourage their employer, their employees to see certain types of doctors, and they can work with providers that are identifying the highest quality fertility providers. | ||
| And so it gives it puts them in the driver's seat, and our view is that we want employers to be the ones that can make those decisions, not the government. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Yeah, well, that's a very good answer. | ||
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Mr. President, um previously you did not seem to be bothered uh regarding Hamas tracking uh cracking down on uh what you called um uh uh crack gangs actually a couple couple of gangs and today you issued um a threat against Hamas on uh true social uh what has to be. | |
| So what was said, go ahead. | ||
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You said that they continue killing, keep killing innocents in Gaza, that's if that continues to be a good idea. | |
| But they used to be gangs and now you're saying innocence. | ||
| What what made you think they're innocence now? | ||
| Well, I'm looking at what's happening, and that wasn't a deal that was made, and we'll see what happens. | ||
| It's it's calmed down. | ||
| It's it's a tough neighborhood, we know that. | ||
| Uh we have a commitment from them, and I assume they're gonna honor their commitment. | ||
| I hope they do. | ||
| And uh I know I understand they brought back some additional bodies today. | ||
| It's a rough deal when you think of it, right? | ||
| Very rough. | ||
| We have our hostages back completely. | ||
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We were very lucky with that. | |
| Uh but uh it's uh it's a tough, it's a tough situation. | ||
| Uh they brought back bodies today, as you probably know. | ||
| But uh they also uh said they're gonna behave. | ||
| We're gonna find out if they behave, if they behave good, if they don't behave, we'll take care of it. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
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Following up on that. | |
| So you can CNN fake news. | ||
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Go ahead. | |
| Uh that uh if they kept on Kim Raphael, we would have no choice but to go in and kill them. | ||
| So do you mean U.S. forces would go in and take out the I didn't say who would go in, but somebody will go in. | ||
| It's not gonna be us. | ||
| We won't have to. | ||
| There are people very close, very nearby that will go in, they'll do the trick very easily, but under our auspices. | ||
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Could I follow up? | |
| Uh you also posted about your call of President Putin today. | ||
| You spoke about uh the meeting of Hungary with him. | ||
| Uh do you have a timeline or a dateset for when I would say within two weeks or so, pretty quick. | ||
| Uh Marco Rubio is going to be meeting with his counterpart, as you know, Labrov. | ||
| And uh they'll be meeting pretty soon. | ||
| They're gonna set up uh a time and a place very shortly. | ||
| Maybe it's already set up, they've already spoken. | ||
| And I thought it was a very good phone call. | ||
| I thought very productive. | ||
| But I'll be meeting with President Putin, and uh we'll make a determination tomorrow. | ||
| I'm meeting with President Zelensky, and I'll be telling them about the call. | ||
| I mean, we have a problem. | ||
| They uh don't get along too well, those two, and it's uh sometimes tough to have meetings, so we may do something where we're separate, but separate but equal. | ||
| We'll uh meet and talk parties, but uh this is a this is a terrible relationship the two of them have, and it's one of those things. | ||
| I've seen things that nobody would believe, but this is one of them. | ||
| So I'll be meeting, we're gonna be meeting in Hungary. | ||
| Victor Orban is uh gonna be hosting, and it's uh that's really uh something that's time. | ||
| Uh last week over 7,000 people were killed. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| And you know, it doesn't affect our country. | ||
| We don't we're not losing people, we're not losing Bobby. | ||
| We're not losing Americans, but they're losing Russians, Ukrainians, mostly soldiers, for the most part, soldiers. | ||
| And uh we think we're gonna get we hope we're gonna get it stopped. | ||
| I thought this would be because of my relationship with President Putin. | ||
| I thought this would be very quick. | ||
| And uh it's turned out to be who would think I did Middle East before I did this. | ||
| We did a total of eight now, seven and now eight. | ||
| And uh we're gonna make this number nine. | ||
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Well, you said you posted that there was great progress. | |
| Can you tell us a little bit about that? | ||
| Was it a shift in Putin's tone? | ||
| Was it something new? | ||
| He told you, did he give you any message to give you about the old President Zelensky tomorrow? | ||
| It just seems to me that uh, you know, look, it's only a few. | ||
| That's all I've done in my whole life. | ||
| I made deals. | ||
| I know about deals. | ||
| I do it well. | ||
| I don't think any presidents ever ended a war, frankly. | ||
| One war. | ||
| I did eight of them, Maria, right? | ||
| And uh, but I don't know. | ||
| Did Bush ever end? | ||
| Do you think Biden ended a war? | ||
| Biden started wars because he was stupid. | ||
| But uh do you think Biden ended any wars? | ||
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No. | |
| I don't think I don't know of anybody that ended wars. | ||
| I ended eight of them. | ||
| Oh, it's gonna be nine. | ||
| I think we're gonna have this one done uh hopefully soon. | ||
| But I'll be meeting him probably over the next two weeks. | ||
| First, Marco is gonna be meeting, and the vice president, as you know, is very much involved. | ||
| The whole team is involved. | ||
| Steve Whitkoff will be involved. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
| What did you tell them about the Tomahawk? | ||
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The Tomahawk missiles. | |
| Did you just well we talked about it a little bit, didn't say much, but I I do say to you, you know, we need tomahawks for the United States of America, too. | ||
| We have uh a lot of them, but we need them. | ||
| I mean, we uh we can't deplete for our country. | ||
| So, you know, they're very vital, they're very powerful, they're they're very accurate, they're very good, but we need them too. | ||
| So uh I don't know what we can do about that. | ||
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Mr. President, but you think it's seven meetings at Putin. | |
| Why do you think a second meeting with Putin now will yield different results? | ||
| Well, I think Alaska actually set a stage, and uh that wasn't very long ago, but it set a stage. | ||
| You have to understand I came into the situation, I didn't start this war. | ||
| This is uh a Biden deal. | ||
| And I came into it, and it was a mess. | ||
| It could have led to World War III. | ||
| In my opinion, this could have led to World War III. | ||
| That won't happen. | ||
| But it could have. | ||
| So I came in, this war was raging. | ||
| When I left, this wasn't even a thought for four years. | ||
| Nobody talked about it. | ||
| I spoke to President Putin about Ukraine. | ||
| It was the apple of his eye, but there was no never gonna be doing anything like this. | ||
| And this all went because of some really bad decisions that were made. | ||
| And uh look what you have millions of people dead. | ||
| You have uh just a horrible, horrible situation. | ||
| I'm doing it to save souls. | ||
| That's all I'm doing it for. | ||
| I'm not doing it for us. | ||
| We're we have an ocean between us. | ||
| I'm doing it also to help Europe. | ||
| They want to have it ended, but they're unable to do it. | ||
| I'm able to do it. | ||
| So I think we'll be uh successful. | ||
| We'll save a lot of lives. | ||
| It should have been done, should have never started. | ||
| This would have never happened if the election weren't rigged. | ||
| This would have never happened. | ||
| But uh it did happen, and I'll get it subbed. | ||
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Yeah, the uh you mentioned a $1,300 drug at the top of this. | |
| Were you referring to the weight loss drug that's referring to Ozepic or uh sort of the fat loss drug? | ||
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So those are gonna be 150 dollars out of pocket for all. | |
| They'll be much lower, they'll be much lower. | ||
| We we have not negotiated those yet. | ||
| They're we're gonna be rolling these out over time. | ||
| Uh the GLP category of drugs, which includes resemble, have not been negotiated yet. | ||
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What's the timeline for that? | |
| But it will. | ||
| It'll come like everywhere else. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Any timeline on the on those negotiations? | ||
| No, but I think those are gonna come down pretty fast, and and we do have, I guess, some ultimate. | ||
| The president we will be happy with the result, and until he is, we're not gonna close those negotiations. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Except it'll happen. | ||
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Yeah, Mr. President, what's your myself to pro-life? | |
| Conservatives, some pro-life conservatives have religious objections to IVF and are already critical of this policy. | ||
| What's your message to that? | ||
| I don't know about the the views of that. | ||
| I'm just looking to do something because you know, pro-life. | ||
| I think this is very pro-life. | ||
| This is you can't get more pro-life than this. | ||
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Please. | |
| Mr. President, you've been talking about how this new Binfit plan will also include root cause treatments for infertility. | ||
| How we make sure that those root cause treatments are equally accessible to IBF. | ||
| Well, I think we're going to be doing that. | ||
| Would you like to, would anybody like to talk about that subject? | ||
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I'll comment on the rulemaking process. | |
| I think it's the determination. | ||
| Again, Secretary of Labor, the determination, the uh Department of Labor is issuing their intent today to open up the rulemaking process again for more flexibility. | ||
| Any time that you have a president who's leading when you can offer more access to health care at a lower rate is a benefit to the American people and to the end user, and that's exactly what he's doing. | ||
| And so you uh heard um before that uh through the QA um uh guidance that was issued today with the other agencies, that will give guidance to our employers and the employees about what the flexibility of that is, and then again, opening that rulemaking process for further determination of the access that can be had offered in those benefits for all different types of health care access is the goal of the Department of Labor. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I like this better. | ||
| They can do better than me. | ||
| Yeah, but you know you're doing a fantastic job. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| I shouldn't I shouldn't tell, I won't say it, but I will not say that she was recommended by the Teamsters. | ||
| Can you believe it? | ||
| And she's turned out to be a gem, an absolute gem. | ||
| You're doing a great job. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Mr. President, I'm not only thinking we can see your deal making skills applied to the government shut down any time soon. | |
| Well, look, I mean, all we want to do is just extend. | ||
| We don't want anything. | ||
| We just want to extend, live with the deal that they had. | ||
| They want to spend 1.5 trillion dollars on illegal immigrants, and they want to destroy health care for everyone else, and it's crazy. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| People that are here illegally, they want to spend 1.5 trillion. | ||
| So we're just not gonna do it. | ||
| No, we we have to take care of our health care. | ||
| Now, we're doing that today, and we're doing it with you know favored nations and most favored nations. | ||
| Uh your costs are gonna be dropping greatly. | ||
| And I'm really good, it's I'm really happy that it's at the beginning of my administration because I did insulin and got it down to like $25, but it doesn't kick in. | ||
| It didn't kick in for two years by statute, so it couldn't kick in. | ||
| And I said, Boy, I hope I win this election, because if I don't, somebody else is gonna take credit for it, Bobby. | ||
| And sure as can be Biden said I he didn't even know what the hell was happening, and he and it c and it was a hard thing for me to do. | ||
| I got insulin way down. | ||
| What was it before that? | ||
| It was it was just massive. | ||
| It was impossible to afford. | ||
| And sure as can be, because it was statute. | ||
| It couldn't have been earlier. | ||
| I said, boy, this falls into the next administration. | ||
| I better win. | ||
| And all of a sudden I watched the spiden taking credit for something that I did. | ||
| And uh on other things too. | ||
| We had a lot of things kicked in. | ||
| So the nice part about this, this is at the beginning of our administration, so I think we're gonna see the fruits of our labor. | ||
| And I hope on our other situation that we've talked so much about autism. | ||
| I hope we're gonna see some very good results based on the recommendations that we made. | ||
| And you know, we have we have time to watch those results. | ||
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Mr. President Donald was just indicted by a grand jury in Maryland. | |
| Do you have a reaction to that? | ||
| I didn't know that. | ||
| You told me for the first time, but I think he's you know a bad person. | ||
| Uh I think he's a uh bad guy, yeah. | ||
| He's a bad guy. | ||
| It's too bad, but it's the way it goes. | ||
| That's the way it goes, right? | ||
| That's the way it goes. | ||
| Well, I what? | ||
| Have you reviewed the case against him? | ||
| No, I haven't. | ||
| I have it. | ||
| But I just think he's a bad person. | ||
| Okay, anybody else? | ||
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What's the timeline for the IBF drug through the National Commissioner Party Review doctor, Dr. McCarry? | |
| What do you think, Doctor? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So uh the first of all, the national priority voucher program says we're gonna proactively at the FDA look for amazing treatments like this IBF treatment. | ||
| We're gonna reach out to the companies, and if it's in line with the president's national priorities, we're gonna put those drugs at the front of the line and get a decision out in weeks instead of a year. | ||
| And so today we announced nine drugs that are gonna be recipients. | ||
| These are products where the manufacturing is gonna be in the United States, or it's meeting a large unmet public health need, like a diabetes drug we announced today. | ||
| Um, or it is a um uh product where you're gonna see an affordability um uh uh phenomena because the prices are getting equalized in line with the president's most favorite nation status goal. | ||
| Wow, that's great. | ||
| Why didn't I have him speaking? | ||
| So he saved a lot of time. | ||
| That's not surprised. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
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Yes, thank you. | |
| Uh so Senate Majority Leader John Coon today said he'd like to proceed with the bill which would put sanctions on Russia. | ||
| What's your talking about? | ||
| Well, we're gonna see. | ||
| Uh he doesn't know about the call yet. | ||
| I'm gonna speak to him later. | ||
| And it was subject to what I wanted to do. | ||
| And so we'll see what happens. | ||
| Uh we may have this may be uh such a productive call that we're gonna end up, we we want to get peace. | ||
| We want to stop the killing. | ||
| 7,000 people a week, can you believe it? | ||
| We want to stop the killing. | ||
| So uh I'm gonna speak to him and the speaker, Mike Johnson. | ||
| I'll speak to them a little bit later and I'll tell them about this, and we'll make the right determination. | ||
| I'm not against anything, I'm just saying uh it may not be perfect timing. | ||
| But it could happen in a week or two, but uh it's at my option, as you know. | ||
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Right, but President Putin tried to dissuade you from selling tomahawk this year. | |
| Well, of course. | ||
| What do you think he's gonna say? | ||
| Please sell tomahawks? | ||
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But didn't he really? | |
| Is he gonna say please sell those tomahawks? | ||
| I really appreciate it. | ||
| I did actually say, would you mind if I gave a couple of thousand tomahawks to your opposition? | ||
| I did say that to him. | ||
| I said it just that way. | ||
| He didn't like the idea. | ||
| He really didn't like the idea. | ||
| No, I said it that that way. | ||
| Uh you have to be a little bit lighthearted sometimes, but uh no, he doesn't want Tom. | ||
| Tomahawk is a vicious weapon. | ||
| It's a vicious, offensive, incredibly destructive weapon. | ||
| Nobody wants Tomahawk shot at it. | ||
| So wouldn't anybody? | ||
| I mean, it's been in the news. | ||
| Who wouldn't do that? | ||
| CNN, who wouldn't do that? | ||
| You know, do you think he's gonna say I'd love to have Tomahawk sent my way? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Maria, we have one of the great stars of television here, and she's an incredible person. | ||
| And she's just an amazing woman who she got it all right. | ||
| She got the Russia-Russia Russia hoax right, she got everything. | ||
| Would you have a question? | ||
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Uh yes, Mr. President, I would ask you why this was so important to you. | |
| Uh IBF and why was autism so important to you. | ||
| What are you talking to? | ||
| Well, autism is like a whole different thing. | ||
| When you look at it was one in 20,000. | ||
| Now it's one in 12. | ||
| If you look, Bobby, we have different numbers, but one in 12, one in 28, one in 32. | ||
| There's a couple of different numbers out there, but it's one in a very different number than it used to be. | ||
| It used to be one in 20,000. | ||
| And that was all that was not that long ago, 20 years ago or so. | ||
| And now they had something for boys for for babies, baby boys. | ||
| It's one in twelve. | ||
| I heard one in ten, Bobby. | ||
| I heard another one, you know, different lists. | ||
| But when you think of that, it's not even sustainable, but there's something artificial. | ||
| When that happens, that's not like a natural. | ||
| And then you have certain groups of people that literally don't have autism, and they're not taking some of the things that we're taking. | ||
| So we're working very hard. | ||
| And on IVF, it's just that I have friends, including Katie, that called me and they told me the importance of it. | ||
| I wasn't that familiar with it. | ||
| Now I think I've sort of become the father ever since I heard. | ||
| We there was a bad decision in Alabama where a judge wanted uh all clinics to be immediately closed, right? | ||
| And Katie called up and you said you were pretty strongly attacked by your friends that you didn't even know were involved with IVF, right? | ||
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We had people that had grandkids, people who'd gone through IDF themselves telling their story and saying there are people that could go there. | |
| Tell what you did when when you heard from your friends, you said this was not they always became violent. | ||
| Yeah, I told him, I said, Mr. President, uh, we need you. | ||
| We need your voice in this conversation. | ||
| Um we we need the directive, we need the strong support because there are millions of people out there, moms and dads wanting to bring life into the world. | ||
| And you had people, the chilling effect that occurred across Alabama, there were people that were in the middle of that process that had been praying to have a child, and that was halted. | ||
| And so the reality of that um was very stark in our state. | ||
| And so I was able to tell the president some of the stories of um people, you know, friends and grandparents and uh relatives that told me what they had experienced, and also um you know what they were fearful of in the future. | ||
| And the president very quickly acted, spoke with a strong voice, and really led the way. | ||
| Um, obviously we saw Democrats continue to fearmonger for the remainder of the year, trying to use it as an election issue when actually IVF is legal and accessible in all 50 states. | ||
| And President Trump very clearly said where he was on this, and he said, I'm gonna make sure that this is more accessible and that it is more affordable for families coast to coast. | ||
| That's exactly what he did, but it's that real life, there's real life stories there that he responded to. | ||
| And that's what people don't know about him. | ||
| He cares. | ||
| And when you tell him what American people are dealing with, he wants to do something about it. | ||
| You have leaders and politicians that come before him that want to talk about things. | ||
| President Trump wants to actually make things happen. | ||
| It's exactly what he did here, and I'm so so grateful, Mr. President. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Appreciate it. | ||
| So uh we will go back to what we're doing, uh working again with uh Marco and with JD and a few of the people on the war, and uh we're doing a lot of other things also. | ||
| The economy is unbelievable. | ||
| It really is, it's been incredible. | ||
| And uh I think one of the great numbers that I've ever heard, think of it, over 17 trillion dollars being invested in our country, and uh when you think of compare that to the last administration, but really compare it to any administration, compared to any country, there's never been a country with anything like that. | ||
| That's in a period of eight months, and we're gonna we've already broken every record possible. | ||
| There's never anything even close. | ||
| So uh we'll go back to all of that. | ||
| Uh prices are down, oil is down, we're down fifty-eight dollars a barrel. | ||
| That's gonna, we're gonna be hitting two dollars for gasoline. | ||
| I think we're gonna be at two dollars in uh the previous administration, they were at four and five dollars, they were going up much higher. | ||
| And then they swung back into my things, but they didn't swing back properly. | ||
| They were very, very late, they really blew it. | ||
| We had it really going in the right direction. |
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