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| The sanctuary of democracy. | ||
| Great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. | ||
| American democracy is bigger than any one person. | ||
| Freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. | ||
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We are still at our core a democracy. | |
| This is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. | ||
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Coming up, President Trump signs resolutions repealing Biden administration energy efficiency standards for appliances and gas heat regulations. | |
| The President also responds to reporter questions on tariffs, pending trade talks with China, and state and local tax breaks. | ||
| This is a little under 15 minutes. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| We have some executive orders that we're going to be signing right now that are very important. | ||
| They're really reduced from some horrible mistakes made by Biden and his group. | ||
| And we're changing them back so that we can lead a normal life, a good life. | ||
| And they're actually very important. | ||
| And from the standpoint of lifestyle, they're very important. | ||
| So I'd ask Will to maybe explain them. | ||
| And we'll ask some of our congressmen and senators to say a few words, please. | ||
| Yes, Mr. President. | ||
| As you said, we have four bills for your attention today. | ||
| These are bills that have been passed by Congress. | ||
| In the closing days of the Biden administration, they pushed through a large number of rules and regulations that really hurt ordinary Americans, including in their own homes. | ||
| So the first of these is HJR 20. | ||
| This is a bill that repeals Biden-era regulations relating to consumer water heaters, consumer gas-fired water heaters. | ||
| Who was in charge of this one? | ||
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This is Gary and myself, sir. | |
| Gary Palmer sponsored it, but this bill specifically saves a factory in my district. | ||
| 300 Georgians will continue to have their jobs as soon as you sign that. | ||
| Mr. President, this rule was issued on Christmas Eve, thinking that we wouldn't be keeping up with what the Biden administration was doing, but we moved quickly to get some of the things that we had. | ||
| And this was on gas heaters. | ||
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Banning natural gas heaters. | |
| And how were you supposed to get your heat then? | ||
| Through electric. | ||
| That's through electric. | ||
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Was that basically electricate, which isn't as good? | |
| Crazy. | ||
| Yeah, Gary, hold that up. | ||
| Ryan, hold that up. | ||
| You guys were great. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| No sense, just no sense. | ||
| But in addition to that, you have a lot of workers that lose their job, right? | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| 300 workers are saved because of you. | ||
| Good, thank you. | ||
| It's an honor. | ||
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Here's the golden dome, by the way, of your interest. | |
| There's the golden dome. | ||
| It'll save all your lives someday, maybe. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| Thanks, Brian. | ||
| You'll hold it up. | ||
| Next, Mr. President, we have House Joint Resolution 24. | ||
| This is the same basic idea, but this relates to walk-in coolers and freezers and other refrigeration devices. | ||
| Again, a last-minute Biden-era regulation that hits ordinary Americans hard. | ||
| What did they do? | ||
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They put in energy efficiency requirements for walk-in schoolers and freezers and therefore putting an undue burden on businesses across the country. | |
| Everything from restaurants to pharmacies, you know, hospitals were all. | ||
| To the point where it didn't work. | ||
| In other words, they made the restrictions so strong that it didn't work. | ||
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And it was going to cost them so much money to actually meet the energy efficiency standards, which didn't really save much money. | |
| So this is going to actually help our small businesses across the country, Mr. President. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Many manufacturers would have had to close stop lines, shut down entire lines of businesses. | ||
| And I just want to say, rescinding these, this was done days before, days before you took office. | ||
| They pushed through these regulations. | ||
| They didn't think about the cost to businesses. | ||
| They didn't put American interest first. | ||
| They didn't put American businesses first. | ||
| I am so grateful we finally have a president who's not only walking back these insane, burdensome regulations that are ultimately going to cost us Americans and American businesses, but that you are thinking about the next generation. | ||
| And as we're leading into Mother's Day, some of us are trying to parent and serve this country at the same time. | ||
| Thank you for welcoming my son, who's 15 with his mother serving, watching what we're doing for him and the generations to come. | ||
| You are making this country stronger for them. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Good luck. | ||
| Take care of you, mom. | ||
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You want to hold that up too? | |
| That's a big one, isn't it? | ||
| Common sense. | ||
| It's all about common sense, right? | ||
| Okay, well, next, sir, this is House Joint Resolution 42. | ||
| Again, this is a rescission of a Biden-era regulation, in this case relating to energy conservation standards for household appliances and certain consumer products. | ||
| That's a good one. | ||
| I know who's over there. | ||
| I know who did this. | ||
| Explain that, please. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Look, this is helping fight inflation because the cost of the burden on appliance manufacturers is going to drive up the cost of them producing household products, which means that when you go buy a washer, dryer, any appliance, it was going to drive up the cost for consumers. | |
| It reduces consumer choice. | ||
| But in the bottom line, we've been trying to fight inflation. | ||
| This fights inflation. | ||
| This helps takes the cost out of producing these products that Americans need every day. | ||
| And when you think, when you add all this up, it's one regulation here, one regulation there. | ||
| They always say it's de minimis, but when you add it all up, it costs a lot to American consumers, and this is fighting back. | ||
| And it's not as good. | ||
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And it's not as good as possible. | |
| Not nearly as good, not nearly as efficient, and more costly. | ||
| Other than that, it's wonderful. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Great job. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Interesting. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And lastly, sir, we have House Joint Resolution 75. | ||
| Again, this is a rescission of a Biden-era regulation, in this case relating to energy standards for commercial refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator freezers. | ||
| Do you have the sink one in here? | ||
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The sinks and that's showerheads? | |
| We have an executive order on that coming for you later, sir. | ||
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Yes. | |
| That's coming when? | ||
| Later this afternoon. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Good. | ||
| You're going to be around later this afternoon? | ||
| Good. | ||
| Sinks and shower heads where you buy a home and you have a new showerhead and you don't get any water. | ||
| The water doesn't come out of the sink. | ||
| The water comes out of nowhere. | ||
| What a shame. | ||
| What a ridiculous waste. | ||
| Okay, let me do this. | ||
| Come here, who's responsible for this move? | ||
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Come on, Mr. President. | |
| Oh, good man here. | ||
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Okay, thank you. | |
| You want to discuss that? | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| This was a government regulation that we have now repealed. | ||
| Thank you very much, Mr. President. | ||
| That now saves the American taxpayer. | ||
| I'm getting ready to say the Texas taxpayer, them too. | ||
| But the American taxpayer, because who would have ultimately paid the price on a government mandate and a government regulation? | ||
| The people of America. | ||
| So you just say that American taxpayer money. | ||
| So thank you very much. | ||
| That's fantastic. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| It's a great job. | ||
| Okay, any questions? | ||
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Mr. President said today that the 10% baseline tariff on all the countries is here to stay, even after the deals are done. | |
| Does that mean that countries offering zero tariffs won't get reciprocity? | ||
| You are going to always have a baseline. | ||
| I mean, there could be an exception at some point. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Somebody does something exceptional for us. | ||
| That's always possible. | ||
| But basically, you have a baseline of a minimum of 10%. | ||
| And some of them will be much higher, 40%, 50%, 60%, as they've been doing to us over the years. | ||
| We had a wonderful deal yesterday. | ||
| We have four or five other deals coming immediately. | ||
| We have many deals coming down the line, and ultimately we're just signing the rest of them in. | ||
| But we always have a baseline of 10%. | ||
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And then specifically on the possibility of an increase in taxes on wealthier Americans. | |
| What do you say to conservative Republicans who argue that this is an increase on small business owners? | ||
| Well, what we're doing is we're actually, if we ever did that, it would only be, and from what I hear, people would love to do it. | ||
| Rich people, I would love to do it, frankly, but what we'll do is that, you know, they'll go around saying, oh, this is so terrible. | ||
| What you do it is you're giving up something up top in order to make people in the middle income and the lower income brackets save more. | ||
| So it's really a redistribution. | ||
| And I'm willing to do it if they want. | ||
| I would love to be able to give people in a lower bracket a big break by giving up some of what I have. | ||
| But I'll tell you, a lot of people say don't do it because of the fact that you have the Bush statement about read my lips. | ||
| But he lost because of Ross Perot. | ||
| He didn't lose because of that statement. | ||
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And then on the salt credit. | |
| But I don't think they're going to be doing it, but I actually think it's good politics to do it where richer people give up. | ||
| And it's a very small, it's like a point. | ||
| But they give it up to benefit people in a lower income. | ||
| And then on the salt tax credits, Mr. President, there are some Republicans who say, why is it that these 45 other states should be paying taxes to alleviate the tax burden of New York or? | ||
| It's only because those states are behind, very badly behind, and those people were affected very badly. | ||
| And, you know, the sad part is oftentimes they were affected badly because you had bad management in those states, like in California with Newsom, and, you know, people. | ||
| So you had some bad management. | ||
| But that's being worked on now. | ||
| They may do a piece one way or the other. | ||
| It's a very complex issue, but I think it's being worked out. | ||
| I think it's going to be worked. | ||
| It has not been settled yet, but they'll settle it up pretty quickly. | ||
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Are you considering that? | |
| What parameters have you given Scott Besson on negotiating with China this weekend? | ||
| We have to make a great deal for America. | ||
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Are you going to be disappointed if he comes back without a deal? | |
| No, no, no, because we already made a great deal. | ||
| We're not doing business with China right now. | ||
| You know, we lost $1 trillion last year with China, $1 trillion. | ||
| So if you're not going to do business with them, you're not going to lose $1 trillion. | ||
| But we lost. | ||
| I just want, I want China to do great, you know. | ||
| I'm very friendly with President Xi. | ||
| I have great respect for him and for China. | ||
| But we can't continue to allow them to do what they did. | ||
| When I was president, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs and taxes. | ||
| And then Biden screwed it all up. | ||
| What he did to this country between the border and between all of the other problems, the wars, everything, what he did to this country should never be forgotten. | ||
| But one of the things he did is the trade was so bad and so imbalanced. | ||
| So I think we're going to come back with a fair deal for both China and us. | ||
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Mr. Have you made it that a number of how low you're willing to go? | |
| No, I have. | ||
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Are you willing to share that number? | |
| Is it an 80%? | ||
| But I put out a number today, 80%, so we'll see how that all works. | ||
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The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv is warning right now about possible Russian significant attack on Kyiv. | |
| What's your message for Putin? | ||
| I have a message for both parties. | ||
| Get this war ended. | ||
| We're losing 5,000 soldiers a week, Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, and other people also, by the way. | ||
| And I say get this stupid war finished. | ||
| That's my message for both of them. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| We'll see you next time. | ||
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Thank you, Red. | |
| Thank you, Red. | ||
| Red Hop. | ||
| Thanks, guys. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Right out there. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| He just came in to say hello. | ||
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What did you discuss? | |
| Almost nothing. | ||
| He came in to say hello. | ||
| He was very nice. | ||
| And I think he came in to thank me, frankly. | ||
| I mean, I would say the primary reason, but he was very nice. | ||
| He's a nice man. | ||
| But I think he actually came in to thank me. | ||
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Is he complying with us, like you'd like to see? | |
| You'd have to ask Tom Holman. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Do you have a reaction to Bill Gates' comments yesterday that the cuts in USAID will lead to millions of deaths of children around the world? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thanks, guys. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you all. | ||
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Thanks, guys. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Let's start moving. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Gary. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter has died at the age of 85. | ||
| He served on the nation's highest court from 1990 until 2009. | ||
| On Friday morning, the Supreme Court released a statement saying that Justice Souter died peacefully yesterday at his home in New Hampshire. | ||
| In the statement, Chief Justice John Roberts said of the late Associate Justice, quote, he brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service. | ||
| After retiring to his beloved New Hampshire in 2009, he continued to render significant service to our branch by sitting regularly on the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for more than a decade. | ||
| He will be greatly missed. | ||
| Justice Souter was nominated by former President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and was later confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 90 to 9. | ||
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