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.
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.
Mr. President, this rule was issued on Christmas Eve, thinking that we wouldn't be keeping up with what the Biden administration is doing, but we moved quickly to get the heat.
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.
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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 generations to come.
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.
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 take 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 mass.
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.
This was a government regulation that we have now repealed.
Thank you very much, Mr. President, that now saves the American taxpayer, get 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 the government regulation?
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.
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?
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 some other countries?
Well, 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 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?
Mr. President, can you have a question?
What parameters have you given Scott Besson on negotiating with China this weekend?
Mr. President, do you have a reaction to Bill Gates's comments yesterday that the cuts in USAID will lead to millions of deaths of children around the world?
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