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| The Community Action Program headquartered in New Jersey and Phillipsburg. | ||
| And they exploit these workers. | ||
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David, I got your point. | |
| We're running short on time. | ||
| Let me try to get Professor Joyce a chance to respond. | ||
| Yeah, real quick. | ||
| So you know far more about Head Start than I do. | ||
| I would just sort of point out that your proposal to have the federal government sort of take over Head Start directly, I would assume that that means that you're not in any way in favor of what the Trump administration is arguing, which is eliminating the Department of Education, because this would basically be an expansion of the responsibilities of the Department of Education. | ||
| And it's always the case in any case where you have sort of a contractual relationship, you can end up in a situation like you described. | ||
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Well, we'll have to end it there. | |
| Speaker Johnson, coming out, let me thank Professor Philip Joyce, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a professor there. | ||
| His article is in govexec, govexec.com. | ||
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Appreciate it very much. | |
| Thanks very much for having me. | ||
| We now take our C-SPAN viewers up to Capitol Hill. | ||
| Live comments from Speaker Mike Johnson. | ||
| It's his Monday morning press conference. | ||
| Around the country, we're delighted to be joined by our dear friend Kelly Loeffler, former U.S. Senator and now the leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration. | ||
| And she can speak specifically to some of the great hardships that are being felt by the people who provide jobs now around this country. | ||
| Day 27 means it's almost been a full month since the Democrats shut down the government. | ||
| And as we near the end of this month, the pain being felt by so many hardworking people around this country is very real, and it gets worse with each passing day. | ||
| Here's some of the stats. | ||
| Last week, 1.4 million federal workers missed a full paycheck. | ||
| Now, you know, many of them are furloughed, and many more are deemed essential workers, those who are essential, for example, to keep the country safe. | ||
| TSA agents we've discussed, and air traffic controllers, and Border Patrol, and of course our troops. | ||
| But so many of them now are going without pay. | ||
| The families of military service members and the air traffic controllers and so many of these others are now at very real risk of missing the paycheck at the end of this month. | ||
| The Trump administration has done everything possible to bend over backwards, to try to find sources of funding within the federal government to be able to cover the bases, but it is getting more and more challenging with each day. | ||
| Now, every Republican in Congress wants to stop this madness desperately. | ||
| And we have voted many times, over a dozen times, collectively 13 times, to reopen the government, to keep it open and reopen it once the Democrats closed it. | ||
| But here's a very simple and important fact that no one should forget. | ||
| We have no ability. | ||
| Republicans do not have the ability to do this on our own. | ||
| It's a simple math problem. | ||
| We need Democrats to help. | ||
| You need 60 votes in the Senate. | ||
| We only have 53 Republicans. | ||
| The Democrats are the ones voting repeatedly to shut down the government. | ||
| But they're not opening it back up. | ||
| They spent most of their time trying to distract the American people from the very simple truth. | ||
| So I brought you a little visual aid here to just remind everybody what the simple facts are. | ||
| Four simple facts here. | ||
| The Democrats are required to open the government. | ||
| They keep saying Republicans are in charge of government. | ||
| We aren't. | ||
| Not in the Senate. | ||
| 60 votes control the Senate, not a bare majority. | ||
| And so point number one, Democrat votes are required to open the government. | ||
| Point number two, they refuse to do it. | ||
| They have now voted 12 times to keep the government closed. | ||
| And they'll have another chance today or tomorrow, maybe multiple times this week, and we'll see what they do. | ||
| Now, the third point is very important because they've been trying to confuse the American people. | ||
| They've tried to say this is a fight about health care or this or that or any other thing. | ||
| And it's very simple. | ||
| They put this on paper. | ||
| They made this their demand in writing in the record of the Senate, and it has not changed. | ||
| These are just four sub-points there under fact number three, but there's many more. | ||
| But among the things they're demanding, this is what the Democrats in the Senate are demanding to reopen the government. | ||
| They want to give $200 billion in health benefits to illegal aliens and non-citizens paid for by U.S. taxpayers. | ||
| That is in their proposal. | ||
| They want billions in wasteful programs to be returned to foreign countries. | ||
| See, we stopped these things. | ||
| They want to turn it all back on. | ||
| They're demanding that we do all that. | ||
| to get the government open for hardworking Americans again. | ||
| They want to give a half a billion to left-leaning news organizations and they want to cut $50 billion from rural hospitals. | ||
| We cannot, we will not do those things. | ||
| And they know that very well. | ||
| Which leads us to point number four. | ||
| The Democrats have now openly admitted, and you all had to cover it last week, that they're using the pain of the American people as their leverage. | ||
| That was the number two ranked Democrat in the House, the Democrat, the minority whip, who said that, acknowledged it in an interview, that this is leverage. | ||
| And Chuck Schumer himself boasted that every day of the shutdown gets better for us. | ||
| That's his now infamous quote that he wishes he had not said out loud. | ||
| But you know what they're doing and why. | ||
| Why are they demanding these things? | ||
| Why is point number three so essential to them? | ||
| Why would they do this? | ||
| Because it's unprecedented, as we've noticed, and reminded you all, they voted for CRs every time it was possible in their lives, as recently as March of this year. | ||
| But they're doing it to appease their far-left Marxist base. | ||
| That's the headline. | ||
| That's why. | ||
| That's why we're all in this mess. | ||
| That's why the American people are suffering pain. | ||
| Because the Democrats are more afraid of the Marxist in their base than they are of hardworking Americans. | ||
| See, they've made an evaluation that they have to appease the Marxist base, that they're so concerned that they'll lose their jobs if they don't appease the far left in their party. | ||
| And they sat in a back room and they made the calculation that they would rather shut the government down and impose all this pain on the American people because they believe the Marxists, the far left and the base, are more active than hardworking Americans, people who go vote. | ||
| And so they made the calculation that it's worth it to them. | ||
| Every day gets better for us. | ||
| We'll use the pain as leverage. | ||
| For what? | ||
| To prove to the far left base that they won't give in, that they'll fight Trump and fight the Republicans. | ||
| What are they fighting? | ||
| It's a clean CR. | ||
| It's the same level of funding that they have voted for as recently as earlier this year. | ||
| They are Biden-level policies and spending. | ||
| This is not some Republican wish list. | ||
| We don't have any of our priorities in this at all. | ||
| It's the Democrats' own product. | ||
| But they have decided to flip the script this time because they were getting too much heat from the far left. | ||
| The facts are so simple. | ||
| And I'll give you exhibit B as to why this is so true. | ||
| On Friday, there was a little bit of a seismic shift in politics. | ||
| All of you noticed it over the weekend. | ||
| We saw our clearest sign yet that this radical insurgent movement in the Democrat Party is succeeding. | ||
| And they are ending what has always been known as the Democrat Party in America. | ||
| After a months-long pressure campaign from the far left, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries finally relented. | ||
| He gave in, and he gave his endorsement to the socialists running to be mayor of New York City. | ||
| The House Democrats have chosen a side. | ||
| They were forced to by that far left that they're so terrified of. | ||
| And they've shown the world what they really believe. | ||
| There is no longer a place for centrists and moderates in their party. | ||
| The candidate that they have endorsed, Mamdami, is somebody who we've talked about a lot from this podium. | ||
| He sympathized with Hamas and openly embraced anti-Semitic language. | ||
| He has called to, quote, seize the means of production because he is a Marxist. | ||
| He's called to abolish our borders, to abolish and end immigration enforcement, to defund the police and to legalize prostitution, among a long list of hits that I could share with you. | ||
| Zoro Mamdani is expected to take the helm of one of the most important cities in the world and largest city in America. | ||
| And he now has the full blessing of the Democrat leader in the House of Representatives. | ||
| It is shocking. | ||
| And that leader and all the other Democrats are going to co-own the consequences of what they do to America's largest city. | ||
| Every reporter in this room should be asking every House Democrat individually whether they too agree with Hakeem's endorsement of the Marxist agenda. | ||
| It's an extraordinary moment in the history of American politics. | ||
| This is not the kind of history that we need to be making. | ||
| What we're witnessing is truly the end of the Democratic Party as we've known it. | ||
| And even some Democrats are now saying that out loud. | ||
| You can see it in their interviews. | ||
| I watched one last night. | ||
| All this is directly related to the Democrats' shutdown show. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because just like they decided, to save their own skin, that they had to endorse the Marxist Mamdani in an unprecedented move, they have also decided they had to shut down the government in an unprecedented move. | ||
| No matter the pain it inflicts upon hardworking American people, they were simply more afraid of the Marxists in their party than they are of voters. | ||
| For the sake of our country, we pray that their calculation is wrong. | ||
| We believe it is dead wrong. | ||
| And as much as they try to obscure it, as much as they try to distract you, as much as they try to say that it's about any other issue under the sun, all those issues were always scheduled to be decided. | ||
| Health care, the expiring Obamacare subsidies, the NDAA, the appropriations, all these other things. | ||
| It was always on the calendar for Republicans and Democrats to hash it out in October, November, and December. | ||
| This is not a surprise to Republicans. | ||
| It's not a surprise to Democrats. | ||
| And they all know it. | ||
| That is the only thing they could grasp onto to try to give some sort of argument, to try to give cover for the fact that they're running from the far left base of their party. | ||
| Facts are facts. | ||
| And the ball is fully in the court of the Senate Democrats now. | ||
| Who are they going to respond to? | ||
| I think hardworking American families need to be a little more vocal. | ||
| I think they need to call some of these Senate offices and tell them to stop the games. | ||
| They need to know they should fear the American people worse than the Marxists who are trying to take over their party. | ||
| And my friends, that is exactly what is going on right here. | ||
| Now, I want to zoom in because we have a special guest and just focus on a group of men and women who are seeing the impact of this shutdown in their bottom line every single day, and that is America's small business owners. | ||
| See, small businesses are the largest employers in our country. | ||
| But unlike Washington Democrats, they don't have the luxury to wait out this shutdown. | ||
| For many of them, federal contracts have been frozen, SBA loans and support have dried up, and business has dropped off due to uncertainty in the markets. | ||
| A survey of small business owners across the country found that for the one in five small business owners who rely on government contracts, this shutdown is forcing them to pull back on their investments. | ||
| And what are those investments? | ||
| It's new hires, new jobs, it's supplies and services. | ||
| They have to pull back on those things so that they can make payroll work so they can keep their employees employed. | ||
| One business in Raleigh, North Carolina that relies on federal environmental approval said this, quote, the backlog that is generated by the shutdown will last long beyond today. | ||
| Another business in Georgia, Ms. Laughler's home state, specializes in home repairs, added, quote, when livelihoods are affected in such a manner, home repairs and projects get delayed if not canceled, our government shutdown is a threat to us all. | ||
| For American businesses that rely on loans from the SBA, each day means crucial dollars lost, and that affects every American at the end of the day. | ||
| Small businesses across the country are being forced to go without roughly $170 million in SBA-backed loans each day, and that adds up to $4.5 billion in blocked loans just over the course of this shutdown so far. | ||
| So while Chuck Schumer says that every day gets better for his party, Every day is getting much, much harder for the people who are keeping the lights on around the country. | ||
| To share more about what small businesses are experiencing firsthand, we are really delighted to enjoy in welcoming this morning the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Kelly Lawfler. | ||
| Kelly, thanks for being here. | ||
| Thank you, Speaker. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| Thanks for being here. | ||
| Well, thank you, Speaker Johnson, and the leadership gathered here. | ||
| And I want to start out by thanking you all on behalf of America's 36 million small businesses for passing a clean funding bill to keep the government open and for passing the largest working family tax cut in American history, saving taxpayers a $4 trillion tax hike that Senate Democrats voted for, Congressional Democrats supported. | ||
| Now that tax cut is a big reason why we've seen a historic comeback for our nation's economy under the leadership of President Trump and congressional Republicans. | ||
| Prior to the Democrat shutdown, the data was very clear. | ||
| Small business optimism was at seven-year highs. | ||
| Wage growth was outpacing inflation for the first time in four years. | ||
| GDP growth was 3.8 percent. | ||
| Deregulation, energy dominance, and fair trade were finally back. | ||
| For the first time in years, America's small businesses felt the wind in their sales. | ||
| They were taking on new capital to hire, expand, and invest. | ||
| Now, that confidence manifested itself at the SBA through a historic demand for capital, exceeding $100 billion for the first time in the agency's 72-year history under President Trump's leadership. | ||
| That includes $45 billion, a record $45 billion, in SBA loans to 85,000 small businesses in fiscal 2025, the most ever approved by this agency, thanks to confidence in the Trump economy. | ||
| But today, 27 days later, as the Speaker said, Senate Democrats have intentionally put that momentum at risk. | ||
| The SBA's loan guarantee programs have been halted, and Main Street's capital has been choked off because Senate Democrats are playing politics with lives and livelihoods. | ||
| They're demanding $1.5 trillion in taxpayer money to fund health care for illegal aliens and other liberal causes. | ||
| Their spin is fact-free. | ||
| They want to subsidize their broken, fraudulent, and unaffordable health care system, where premiums have increased by 80% since 2014, and those are the enormous costs that are borne on the shoulders of small businesses. | ||
| But the pain is the point. | ||
| Every single day of this shutdown has stopped 320 local businesses every single day from accessing $170 million in SBA loans for hiring and for expansion. | ||
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| Now, in Chuck Schumer's own state, that is $40 million every single week. | ||
| In my home state of Georgia, Senator Osoff and Senator Warnock shutting down $35 million in Main Street capital every single week. | ||
| So on day 27, all of that adds up to 6,000 small business loans that have been prevented from receiving upwards of $4 billion in Main Street lending. | ||
| And it's not just the flow of capital that cut off, it's been cut off, as the speaker said. | ||
| It's small businesses that rely on federal contracts. | ||
| Thousands of them across the country have received stop work orders. | ||
| Thousands more who rely on federal workers as their customers are seeing their revenue dry up. | ||
| Here in Washington, of course, but around our military communities, around Main Streets across America. | ||
| It's our storefronts that are cutting back hours, manufacturers that are shelving expansion plans, and generational businesses that are closing their doors for good. | ||
| It's business that they will never get back. | ||
| Thousands of painful stories like these are playing out, and that's what Democrats are talking about when they say they now have leverage. | ||
| Now, America's small businesses make up 99% of all of our nation's businesses. | ||
| They create two out of every three new jobs, and they make up about half of our GDP. | ||
| So when the CEA estimates that every week of the Democrat shutdown, it shrinks the U.S. economy by $15 billion, that cost is borne by Main Street. | ||
| When they estimate that Senate Democrat shutdown will cost our economy 43,000 jobs, those jobs are at local businesses. | ||
| All because Senator Schumer and his caucus are willing to sacrifice Main Street so that they can derail President Trump's historic economic agenda and appease the socialist radicals who are now in charge of the Democrat Party. | ||
| It's why I'm so proud to stand here with Speaker Johnson, Chairman Williams, and the entire House leadership team because we are united behind Main Street, our military, and those who rely on critical federal services. | ||
| It's time for Chuck Schumer to end the political stunt, pass a clean funding bill, open the government, stop putting illegal aliens and the Marxist socialist demands of your radical base over small businesses back home. | ||
| We must bring the same common sense that prevails on Main Street back to Washington. | ||
| I'll now turn it over to my good friend and chairman of the Small Business Committee, Roger Williams from the great state of Texas. | ||
| Thank you, Senator. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I appreciate Administrator Leffler, and she's quoted you a lot of numbers, which are all true. | ||
| But let me just tell you this. | ||
| I chair the Small Business Committee. | ||
| I'm a small business owner. | ||
| I didn't like sell my business 10 years ago or anyone. | ||
| We still have our family business, been in business since 1939. | ||
| I've been in it 57 years. | ||
| I know what's happening on Main Street when it's good and when it's bad. | ||
| And let me tell you, Main Street is very fearful of the Schumer shutdown. | ||
| He is totally holding Main Street America, small business owners, small business employees at bay because of his future that he's concerned about. | ||
| It has nothing to do with it. | ||
| Main Street is 99% of the businesses are small businesses. | ||
| 75% of the payroll, 75% of the workforce is small business. | ||
| It's every small business in your hometown, in Schumer's hometown, in my hometown. | ||
| I go over, and I'm not necessarily as much a congressman when I get home, as much as a small business owner. | ||
| And I can tell you what's happening out there. | ||
| I'm worried about the 99%. | ||
| I'm worried about the 75% of payrolls, 75% of workforce. | ||
| I'm worried about the fact that they cannot meet the payrolls, as Administrator Leffler said with the SBA like it is right now. | ||
| It's ready to go. | ||
| I mean, we are ready to go. | ||
| We've had more activity in the SBA since November 5th than we've had in years because people want to start a business. | ||
| They see the Trump economy works. | ||
| They want to start a business. | ||
| They want to stay in business. | ||
| I'm worried about that group of people. | ||
| I'm worried about the fact that they can't meet payroll. | ||
| I'm worried about the fact that they can't buy inventory. | ||
| If you can't buy inventory, you can't sell anything. | ||
| And the truth of the matter is, if you want to go deeper into it, if you don't have inventory, inflation will rise because you're not discounting your inventory. | ||
| That's how capitalism works. | ||
| That's how the private sector works. | ||
| That's how we compete. | ||
| So the other thing we did before the shutdown, Administrator, thanks to you, is the fact that we raised the loan limits from $5 to $10 million on manufacturing. | ||
| Ready to go, ready to expand, ready to grow your business. | ||
| And I will tell you, if we're lucky enough to have some more rate cuts, this economy, the Trump economy, along with small business, is going to lead the way and explode. | ||
| But we can't do it with Chuck Schumer hanging an anchor around everybody's neck because he's personally concerned about his political future. | ||
| So as a small business owner, I'm just saying to all of you, the greatest asset America has is its people, its Americans, and it's Main Street America. | ||
| Risk and reward built this country. | ||
| Right now, there's no risk and reward. | ||
| We're just playing defense. | ||
| That will not work. | ||
| This shutdown must end immediately to save small business, to save consumers, to save Main Street America. | ||
| I'm honored to chair the committee. | ||
| I'm honored to work with Senator Loeffler. | ||
| We can get this done. | ||
| Everybody's ready. | ||
| It relies on one man, Chuck Schumer. | ||
| Take a look at the small businesses in your district or in New York, Senator Schumer. | ||
| Tell them that you don't care about them. | ||
| Tell them you don't care if they meet their payroll. | ||
| Tell them you don't care if they hire workers and see how that goes. | ||
| America is the greatest country in the world with the greatest workforce in the world. | ||
| I'm proud to have a small part in supporting them and getting our country back on track. | ||
| May God bless all of them. | ||
| May God bless America. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Well, thank you, Chairman Williams, for all you do to support small businesses to really epitomize the backbone of our economy. | ||
| And Administrator Loffler, thank you for coming and for what you're doing to help small businesses grow in every corner of this country. | ||
| Unfortunately, as Administrator Loffler pointed out, those small businesses are struggling like millions of families all across America. | ||
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Why? | |
| So that the Democrats can get leverage. | ||
| Who knows who they want leverage over? | ||
| They can't articulate it. | ||
| They've laid out a trillion and a half dollar wish list of crazy items like giving taxpayer-funded health care to illegals. | ||
| In their bill to give that taxpayer funding to illegals, they actually gut rural health care. | ||
| Democrats gut $50 billion out of rural health care. | ||
| They want to talk about health care. | ||
| They're the ones making it harder. | ||
| And of course, they don't want anybody to remember facts. | ||
| Facts like when we moved the working families tax cut through this Congress, unfortunately, not a single Democrat wanted to support that because it involved preventing a tax increase. | ||
| The party that's now gone all the way over, full bore into socialism. | ||
| As the Speaker talked about, Hakeem Jeffries is now all in for the socialist agenda of Mamdani. | ||
| He is the head of their party now. | ||
| When he gets elected mayor of New York, he's given the marching orders to the rest of the Democrats. | ||
| And they want to raise taxes on everybody. | ||
| They call you rich. | ||
| Anybody who works for a living is going to be rich, and they're going to raise your taxes to get government-run grocery stores and the lunacy that comes with that. | ||
| That's the Democrat agenda. | ||
| It's not about improving health care because, again, in their own alternative bill, they want to gut rural health care. | ||
| You know what else? | ||
| They work to do in the working families tax cut. | ||
| We had a provision that would have lowered premiums by 11%, according to CBO. | ||
| It was scored to lower premiums on families. | ||
| It's called CSR. | ||
| You can go look it up. | ||
| It's something that has been out there as an idea for a long time. | ||
| We actually put it into bill language and text and passed it through the House. | ||
| But Democrats went and used a parliamentary maneuver under the Byrd rule to get that removed because they don't care about families. | ||
| They don't care that that provision would have absolutely lowered premiums by double digits for families who are paying too much for health care. | ||
| And then not only did they get it removed, Democrats in the Senate bragged, still to this day on their website, bragged that they removed it. | ||
| They want to tell you it's about health care. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| They really told you what it's about. | ||
| It's about getting leverage, showing off to their radical Marxist socialist base that they're fighting Donald Trump because they're still angry about the results of the November election. | ||
| And in the meantime, real families are struggling. | ||
| Every day the number grows higher. | ||
| Yesterday, Senator Gallego went on to meet the press. | ||
| He was asked when Democrats would reopen the government. | ||
| And he said, quote, I'm not looking at a timetable. | ||
| I'm looking at everyone's personal pocketbooks. | ||
| Now, Senator Gallego, you ought to be looking at the pocketbooks of those single moms who right now are facing losing their WIC payments, facing losing their SNAP payments. | ||
| And if Senator Gallego is not sure how many people that is, we've been told by the administration how many people will stand to lose real benefits, SNAP benefits, food stamps for kids. | ||
| 42 million people will lose those benefits in just a few days. | ||
| Senator Gallego, look at their pocketbooks. | ||
| WIC, Women, Infants, and Children program helps feed 7 million low-income moms and infants. | ||
| Senator, go look at those pocketbooks. | ||
| And who knows what your real motivation is, but I'll tell you what their motivation is. | ||
| Their motivation is just to put food on their table for their kids. | ||
| And every Republican and Democrat, every Republican in the House and Senate voted yes to put that food on the table. | ||
| And Democrats keep voting no. | ||
| They keep voting to shut the government down. | ||
| And it's having an impact on millions of people. | ||
| Head Start, which is a program that funds education and nutrition services for 800,000 kids under the age of six. | ||
| You hear this theme over and over again now: who the Democrats are using for leverage and hurting is kids and nutrition programs. | ||
| That's who they've chosen to target. | ||
| And it's real harm and real pain that they're causing. | ||
| But then it gets even bigger. | ||
| Just today, the American Federation of Government Employees, large union, came out and said, It's time to pass a clean, continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. | ||
| No hash half measures and no gamesmanship. | ||
| And the union went on to say today, quote, Because when the folks who serve this country are standing in line for food banks after missing a second paycheck because of this shutdown, they aren't looking for partisan spin. | ||
| They're looking for the wages they earned. | ||
| The fact that they're being cheated out of it is a national disgrace. | ||
| And they're right. | ||
| It's a national disgrace. | ||
| What Democrats are doing to good, hard-working people, to women, infants, and children who are just looking to this town and saying, what are these Democrats doing? | ||
| What happened to your father's Democrat Party? | ||
| It's a mirage of what it used to be because the socialists have taken over. | ||
| This is what Marxism and socialism looks like. | ||
| Government workers standing in food bank lines, children going without food, and Head Start nutrition programs so that Democrats can use you as leverage. | ||
| It's a national disgrace and it needs to end now. | ||
| We stand ready to get that job done. | ||
| We voted to get that job done. | ||
| It's time they stop playing this game that's harming millions of people. | ||
| Our whip, Tom Emmer. | ||
| We're now on day 27 of the Democrats shutdown, and the consequences are getting more severe every single day. | ||
| Over the weekend, we saw federal workers lined up at food banks, as our majority leader was just saying, as they are being forced to figure out how to feed their families. | ||
| We saw control towers at major airports such as Dallas, Fort Worth, Newark, and Phoenix facing significant staffing shortages. | ||
| And if the Democrats fail to pass our clean CR and reopen the government this week, more Americans will miss their hard-earned paychecks. | ||
| Some states will be forced to cut off SNAP benefits, including my home state of Minnesota. | ||
| Thankfully, the Trump administration and private sector companies have stepped up where Democrats have refused. | ||
| President Trump has found creative solutions to help pay our troops and fund WIC benefits for moms and young children for just a little bit longer. | ||
| DoorDash announced yesterday that they will help support Americans by delivering free meals to food banks and waiving delivery and service fees on grocery orders for SNAP recipients. | ||
| But these are band-aid solutions to the Democrats' self-inflicted shutdown problem. | ||
| Remember, it doesn't have to be this way. | ||
| There is a nonpartisan government funding bill sitting in the Senate, ready to be sent to President Trump's desk immediately. | ||
| We just need five Senate Democrats to come to their senses, do the right and reasonable thing, and support our clean CR. | ||
| Contrary to what House Minority Whip Catherine Clark believes, the American people are not leveraged in the Democrats' shutdown charade. | ||
| And we refuse to negotiate under hostage conditions, nor will we pay a ransom. | ||
| So our message today is the same as every other day. | ||
| And we're glad to see, as the majority leader mentioned, that the American Federation of Government Employees, by the way, the largest government employee union, 820,000 federal employees, have joined us in saying enough with the political games, support our clean CR and reopen the government like your constituents' livelihoods depend on it because they do. | ||
| With that, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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It's now been more than five weeks since the House has last met and last vote, voted. | |
| But even during the government shutdown, House committees could still meet, there could still be markups, there could still be oversight hearings, those could still come to the floor. | ||
| So why not do that rather than have members back home in their districts? | ||
| Why not bring them back here and do the work that they were elected to do? | ||
| Yeah, so we're evaluating this day by day. | ||
| The House did its work. | ||
| I've said it over and over and over. | ||
| And the most important thing is to get the government open. | ||
| It's the number one priority and number one responsibility of Congress. | ||
| and the Senate Democrats have chosen not to do it. | ||
| We think that is paramount and of paramount importance to everything else. | ||
| There is plenty of time in the remainder of the calendar year to do all the things that are the must-pass pieces of legislation and all the negotiations that I referenced earlier today. | ||
| And we are anxious to get everybody back to regular legislative session. | ||
| But there cannot be a regular legislative session so long as the government is closed and Americans are feeling so much pain. | ||
| We won't do that. | ||
| Now, in the meantime, Republicans, I don't know what the Democrats are doing other than publicity stunts, but I can tell you the House Republicans are doing some of the most meaningful work of their careers. | ||
| They are in their districts working around the clock with their constituents, helping them not only to negotiate the crisis that's been created by this Democrat shutdown, but all the other matters that they need to attend to. | ||
| And I'm hearing from them individually. | ||
| They are having some of the most meaningful interactions at a time of great crisis with their constituents that they've ever had, and that's really, really important. | ||
| So I don't want to pull them away from that work right now when their insight and their counsel and their assistants and those of their staff, who, by the way, aren't getting paid soon, that it is most essentially needed right now back home. | ||
| So we have work to do here. | ||
| We'll get back on the floor as soon as we are and can. | ||
| And in the meantime, as soon as the Democrats allow us, and in the meantime, the committees, the chairs of all the committees and the active members of those committees are still churning the work out. | ||
| They're not doing a markup right now in a formal meeting, for example, but they are still doing very meaningful work. | ||
| Oversight, the oversight responsibility of the House continues to work. | ||
| You might have noticed the Oversight Committee dumped its third batch of files from the Epstein matter just a number of days ago. | ||
| 43,000 pages of documents are out there, including Epstein's own personal flight logs, his financial ledgers, his daily calendar and diaries. | ||
| All those things are out now in the public. | ||
| And so all these essential functions of the House of Representatives continue in earnest. | ||
| Hakeem Jefferson said they're on vacation. | ||
| Well, he might have sent the Democrats on vacation. | ||
| But House Republicans are doing very important, very essential work around the clock. | ||
| Yes, go ahead, Ellie. | ||
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Saturday, yesterday, and the USDA decided they're not going to tap into a contingency fund in order to show those benefits get paid. | |
| Do you think the administration should tap into those funds and look like other sources in order to show that benefits Americans get public? | ||
| Well, look, I can tell you that the administration has worked, as you all know, very creatively and very hard to limit the pain on the Americans because of the Democrats' shutdown. | ||
| And the SNAP benefits is a unique situation. | ||
| I got a summary of the whole legal analysis, and it certainly looks legitimate to me. | ||
| The contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now. | ||
| The reason is because it's a finite source of funds. | ||
| It was appropriated by Congress. | ||
| And if they transfer funds from these other sources, it pulls it away immediately from school meals and infant formula. | ||
| So it's a trade-off. | ||
| There has to be a pre-existing appropriation for the contingency fund to be used. | ||
| And Democrats blocked that appropriation when they rejected the clean continuum resolution. | ||
| So the way to make this stop immediately is for we just need a handful, we need five more Democrats in the Senate to do the right thing, wake up and say, I'm going to say no to the Marxist far-left pressure, and I'm going to do what's right by the people, the 42 million Americans in this country who rely upon this essential nutrition assistance. | ||
| Am I going to starve my constituents or am I going to appease the Marxists? | ||
| That is their actual calculation, whether they say all of that out loud or not. | ||
| Everybody in this room knows exactly what's going on. | ||
| And it's so infuriating to us. | ||
| The best way for SNAP benefits to be paid on time is for the Democrats to end their shutdown. | ||
| And that could happen right now if they would show some spine. | ||
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| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| The military is yet again in House Paycheck Profit at the end of this week, which I think first too. | ||
| In the past, the President found the money to pay the military, including money he says to the general $130 million. | ||
| Do you or any of your staff know who that donor was? | ||
| And also, do you believe that the military will miss that picture? | ||
| Or is it your understanding that that money will be found again? | ||
| So the question is about military pay. | ||
| We did get the president, as you know, tapped in research and development unobligated funds and paid the military in the middle of October. | ||
| Their next check is due the end of this week. | ||
| And we're not 100% sure. | ||
| Now, I do know the administration and everybody is bending over backwards to try to figure that out, but I don't know the final analysis yet. | ||
| With regard to who gave the $130 million, very generous donation to help pay troops. | ||
| By the way, that's just a small fraction of what is needed to pay the troops, as you know, but a very generous donation. | ||
| I have not asked the president for the identity of that person because they want to remain anonymous, and I respect that. | ||
| I've heard rumors, but I'm not 100% certain because, again, I haven't asked to verify that myself. | ||
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Yes? | |
| Mr. Speaker, this AFGE, leaders Galise, and with Emmer both mentioned this new statement from the President of the American Federation of Government Employees. | ||
| They represent 800,000 federal employees. | ||
| They're obviously calling for a clean CARD of pass, which is what you guys passed. | ||
| Do you see this statement from AFGE as a turning point in this shutdown? | ||
| Do you see this as something that could move Senator Schumer? | ||
| Certainly I hope so. | ||
| It's a union, you know, and they represent such a large amount. | ||
| There's 1.4 million federal employees. | ||
| They represent 800,000 of them. | ||
| And they said, to your point, in quote, pass the CR and open the government. | ||
| It couldn't be more clear. | ||
| And because they understand the reality of this, these are federal employees. | ||
| Many of them watch carefully what happens here in the halls of Congress. | ||
| They know that this whole thing by the Democrats, the entire shutdown, is a charade because they know, and anybody who pays attention knows, we always were going to arm wrestle over the remaining issues on the table this year. | ||
| And they're tired of the distraction, and it's hurting their families, and people are suffering real hardships. | ||
| They really are going to the food pantries out now to feed their families. | ||
| It's shameful. | ||
| We're the greatest nation in the history of the world. | ||
| We've got to be able to operate. | ||
| And we can't allow a rise of Marxist and far-left activists in one party to shut down the entire operation of the federal government. | ||
| And that is exactly what they are allowing them to do. | ||
| The Democrats have got to come to their senses. | ||
| You can endorse communists all you want, but at least keep the government operating for us. | ||
| That's our plea. | ||
| It's pretty simple. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Secretary. | ||
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Is there any work being done on a Republican solution to that health care clip? | |
| I mean, there's been talk in the past about HSAs, about a short-term plan. | ||
| Any work being done say it can be done at the end of the year, but certainly developed some preliminary work. | ||
| I've been carrying this visual aid around waiting for this question for a while, okay? | ||
| So when I say that the Republicans have been working on a fix for health care, we've been doing this for years. | ||
| And many of you who've been on this beat for a while know this is two publications. | ||
| When I was chair of the Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus of Republicans in Congress, we published volumes of ideas on health care. | ||
| This was our volume one, a framework for personalized affordable care. | ||
| We had an entire body of the smartest minds in Congress, the smartest Republican minds who worked around the clock. | ||
| The doctors' caucus, they talked to stakeholders from around the country and in all the areas related to health care, and they came up with a formula on how to reduce the cost of health care dramatically, how to make Obamacare affordable and workable in some way for the American people, to increase the access to care and the quality of care. | ||
| And these ideas have been on paper for a long time. | ||
| There are volumes of this stuff, volumes of it. | ||
| What we're doing right now, what we have been doing, what we were already doing, because we knew we were coming up to the end of the year, and we know that health care is a major burden for the American people. | ||
| We've been working on it since day one of this Congress. | ||
| We worked on it in the years prior. | ||
| And we've already demonstrated, this is not talking points for us. | ||
| When we say the Republican Party is the only party that has any chance at fixing health care for the American people, we've demonstrated it. | ||
| We put it into the one big beautiful bill, the Working Families Tax Cut. | ||
| As you know, we strengthened the Medicaid program. | ||
| We started there because it was the lowest-hanging fruit. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because the fraud is so glaring. | ||
| And we cut out, we eliminated the fraud. | ||
| We got ineligible recipients off of Medicaid. | ||
| We preserved it for the people who rely upon it and need it the most. | ||
| Young pregnant women, the elderly, disabled, for example. | ||
| We got able-bodied young men without dependents off the program. | ||
| And what we did was we strengthened it. | ||
| Don't take our word for it. | ||
| The CBO, who normally is not on my team, okay, they're the ones that came out and said, yeah, it's going to save $185 billion. | ||
| And they got 2.3 million ineligible recipients off of it already. | ||
| That's an important first start. | ||
| And so the next thing is to fix all the other components of health care. | ||
| That's what we have plans to do. | ||
| That's what we're working on. | ||
| The expiring Obamacare subsidy at the end of the year is a serious problem because if you look at it objectively, you know that it is subsidizing bad policy. | ||
| We're throwing good money at a bad, broken system, and so it needs real reforms. | ||
| The reason it was never appropriate or never possible to be resolved on a simple CR stopgap funding measure is because it's very complicated to fix. | ||
| But Republicans have a long list of ideas. | ||
| Leader Scalise has been working with the chairman of our three committees of jurisdiction, putting all of that, formulating all that, grabbing the best ideas that we've had for years to put it on paper and make it work. | ||
| But we know we're going to have to arm wrestle with Democrats over that. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because many of them are avowed to get us to a single-payer system. | ||
| They do love socialism, my friends. | ||
| They love Mamdani. | ||
| He wants the government to take over everything. | ||
| They're on board with that program. | ||
| They think the government can do a better job by taking over health care. | ||
| We believe in the private sector and the free market and individual providers, their acumen. | ||
| And we need, we say that if you take the government off their backs and allow for real competition again in health care, you will improve its quality and you will bring down its costs. | ||
| All of these are important components of that. | ||
| And we have a lot of work to do, but it is not a simple thing. | ||
| And I am not going to go in a back room with Chuck Schumer, like he keeps demanding with four people and make this decision. | ||
| I will not do it. | ||
| It's not appropriate. | ||
| It's not right. | ||
| It's too complicated for that. | ||
| We need all the members to have buy-in. | ||
| We need to have these healthy debates and discussions. | ||
| But we can't do it while they're shutting the government down to appease the Marxists. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That should be your headline. | ||
| I want to thank Chairman Williams and Administrator Lauffler for being here and highlighting the trials of small businesses. | ||
| And we'll see you here again tomorrow. | ||
| God bless. | ||
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Congress returns this afternoon for day 27 of the federal government shutdown. | |
| The Senate gavels in at 3 Eastern. | ||
| Lawmakers will vote later in the day to confirm two of President Trump's nominees for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court in central Alabama. | ||
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Later in the week, senators will vote for a 13th time to advance short-term government spending legislation by Republicans to reopen the government. | |
| Most Democratic senators have been voting against it, calling for expiring health care tax credits to be extended. | ||
| Lawmakers will also vote on legislation by Democrats to end the Brazil, Canada, and global tariffs declared by President Trump. | ||
| The House is back on Tuesday for a brief session. | ||
| House Republican leaders have canceled votes for a sixth week, awaiting Senate approval of the short-term funding bill. | ||
| Watch live coverage of the House on C-SPAN. | ||
| See the Senate on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| And all of our congressional coverage is available on our free video app, C-SPAN Now, and our website at c-span.org. | ||
| And past president. | ||
| Why are you doing this? | ||
| This is outrageous. | ||
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President Trump traveled to Japan during his week-long trip to Asia. | |
| Up next, we'll show you his remarks on Air Force One, followed by his arrival to Tokyo, and then his meeting with the Japanese emperor. | ||
| Bumpy weather, what's the word? | ||
| Do you have any questions? | ||
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You, sir, could you tell us a little bit about how the Lula meeting went yesterday? | |
| Very good. | ||
| We had a good meeting. | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| I don't know if anything's going to happen, but we'll see. | ||
| They'd like to do a deal. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Right now, they're paying, I guess, 50% tariff. | ||
| But we had a great meeting. | ||
| It's happy birthday. | ||
| I want to wish the president happy birthday. | ||
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Okay? | |
| It's his birthday, Tenny. | ||
| Did you know that? | ||
| He's a very vigorous guy, actually, and I was very impressive. | ||
| But today's his birthday, so happy birthday. | ||
| All right, would you let him know, please? | ||
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Mr. President, a couple more questions on tariffs. | |
| Secretary Besson has said, he's right here, the handsome guy behind you. | ||
| Hi, Mr. Secretary. | ||
| You said you're near a very good job. | ||
| Hi, Mr. Secretary. | ||
| He's doing a good job. | ||
| No, get over here. | ||
| We also have Marco here. | ||
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He says, can you give us a status on the preliminary talks with the Chinese and where that sets things up for Thursdays in the meeting? | |
| So we had a very good meeting, James and myself, with our counterpart, the Vice Premier. | ||
| And we have a framework for President Trump, President Xi to decide on. | ||
| And we discussed a wide range of things from tariffs, trade, fentanyl, substantial purchase of U.S. agricultural products. | ||
| And rare earths. | ||
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And rare earths. | |
| Nothing has been agreed to yet. | ||
| But we feel good. | ||
| I mean, we feel good. | ||
| I feel better that this guy's got nice broad shoulders. | ||
| If the plane makes a big turn or something, I'm grabbing his shoulder. | ||
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Please do. | |
| You know what? | ||
| Why don't you stay over here? | ||
| Marco, where are you? | ||
| Come on over here. | ||
| Come on, come over here. | ||
| I think you have some more room for yourself. | ||
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Come on over here. | |
| I've got a good team. | ||
| It's the greatest team ever assembled. | ||
| You know that if I weren't elected president, in my opinion, every automobile company in the United States would be either bankrupt or very close to it. | ||
| And instead, they're hitting record highs. | ||
| Their stock is through the roof. | ||
| You saw Ford and you saw General Motors yesterday go up big. | ||
| It's all because of tariffs. | ||
| If it weren't tariffs, it'd be just like it's been for the last 30 years where we lost about 52% of our automobile manufacturing business. | ||
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| In my opinion, whether it be now or very shortly, if it weren't for what I've done as president, every automobile company in America would be bankrupt. | ||
| Instead, they're doing phenomenal business. | ||
| That's all because of tariffs. | ||
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All right. | |
| On the flight yesterday, you sent out your truth social about the Canada tariffs. | ||
| Can you walk through when you expect those to take effect? | ||
| And can I ask why? | ||
| You know, we're going to let them know. | ||
| Ronald Reagan loved tariffs. | ||
| He used them sparingly, which he probably would make a mistake. | ||
| He made a mistake in that. | ||
| And again, I was the biggest fan of Ronald Reagan, but on finance, on trade, it wasn't his strong suit. | ||
| But he liked tariffs. | ||
| And they totally changed that to say that he did because they're catering to the Supreme Court. | ||
| Because Canada's been ripping us off for a long time, and they're not going to rip us off anymore. | ||
| Canada has been ripping us off for a long time. | ||
| One of the most difficult countries to deal with has been Canada. | ||
| As much as I love Canada itself and the people of Canada, they've just had a lot of bad representatives. | ||
| They did a fake ad yesterday. | ||
| They were caught. | ||
| The Ronald Reagan Foundation was the one that caught them. | ||
| And it was totally the opposite of what they said. | ||
| So I don't like that. | ||
| That's dirty pool. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| And let me just tell you, they shouldn't have done it. | ||
| They've apologized, and they said we're going to take the ad down. | ||
| Well, they did it, but they did it very late. | ||
| They let it play for another two nights. | ||
| And now they took that ad down. | ||
| So I don't know when it's going to kick in. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| But I don't really want to discuss it. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
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Mr. President, I just add this is an ad that was an ad run by a provincial government in Canada. | |
| Why are you with the federal government? | ||
| Because whether it's provincial or Canada itself, they all knew exactly what the ad was. | ||
| The Prime Minister knew, everybody knew. | ||
| The Prime Minister knew what the ad was before it was. | ||
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Do you see him in Apex? | |
| Do you want to meet with him? | ||
| I don't want to meet with him. | ||
| No, I'm not going to be meeting with them for a while. | ||
| I'm very happy with the deal we have right now with Canada. | ||
| We're going to let it ride. | ||
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Well, we have Secretary Bennett here. | |
| Can you ask about the Fed search as well? | ||
| Where are you on interviewing candidates for a new chair? | ||
| We're down to five. | ||
| We're obviously traveling a lot now. | ||
| We're going to continue. | ||
| We're going to do a second round. | ||
| And we hope to present a good slate to the president right after Thanksgiving. | ||
| It'll ultimately be his choice. | ||
| I think he's got some very strong. | ||
| I'm thinking about him for a fed. | ||
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What do you think? | |
| I'm thinking about Marco. | ||
| I'm thinking about Jameson. | ||
| Thinking about a lot of people. | ||
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I think Stephen Miller. | |
| We do have a lot. | ||
| Stephen Miller. | ||
| How about Stephen Miller? | ||
| We have a lot of candidates that want the job. | ||
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When do you think you'll make it a family? | |
| It's the world's easiest job, but to get it right, you have to be very smart. | ||
| And we have a person that's not at all smart right now. | ||
| He should have been much lower, much sooner. | ||
| That's why we call him Jerome Too Laid Powell. | ||
| Mr. President. | ||
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Russia said this week that they've tested a new missile that can go more than 8,000 miles. | |
| Is that saber-rattling for you? | ||
| What is that? | ||
| They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores. | ||
| So, I mean, it doesn't have to go 8,000 miles. | ||
| They're not playing games with us. | ||
| We're not playing games with them either. | ||
| We test missiles all the time. | ||
| But, you know, we do have a submarine, a nuclear submarine. | ||
| We don't need to go 8,000 miles. | ||
| And I don't think it's an appropriate thing for Putin to be saying either, by the way. | ||
| He ought to get the war ended. | ||
| A war that should have taken one week is now in its soon fourth year. | ||
| That's what he ought to do instead of testing missiles. | ||
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Mr. President, should the EU use frozen Russian assets to help pay for defensive European? | |
| I don't know. | ||
| You have to ask EU. | ||
| I'm not involved in that. | ||
| That's up to EU. | ||
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Are you considering an additional sanctions against Russia? | |
| You'll find out. | ||
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So, Mr. President, shipbuilding has been a big part of your trade deals with South Korea and Japan. | |
| Why is it so important to increase our shipbuilding to counter China? | ||
| Well, pretty obvious answer to that, because we want more ships. | ||
| We're going to be back in the shipbuilding industry. | ||
| We have a lot of companies coming into our country now. | ||
| They're going to start building. | ||
| We have the shipyards available. | ||
| You know, in World War II, we were the biggest in the world in shipbuilding. | ||
| And then over the years, we went wokey and stupid and weak. | ||
| And we started buying ships from everybody. | ||
| And, you know, we've lost that industry. | ||
| But we'll get that industry back. | ||
| We were the best at it. | ||
| And we'll soon be very good at it, if not the best. | ||
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What are you going to announce in Japan? | |
| Can you give us any preview? | ||
| We're going to just announce great friendship. | ||
| I look forward to meeting the new Prime Minister. | ||
| I hear phenomenal things. | ||
| She was a great ally and friend of Shinzo Abi, who was my friend, former prime minister. | ||
| And he was great. | ||
| He was one of my best. | ||
| He was one of the best. | ||
| And the group, he was one of the best. | ||
| Really best. | ||
| And I know they were very close. | ||
| And I think philosophically they were close, which is good. | ||
| It's going to be very good. | ||
| That really helps Japan and the United States. | ||
| I think she's going to be great. | ||
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Which CEOs are going to come to your dinner tomorrow? | |
| Can you say what companies are? | ||
| I'd rather not say. | ||
| You'll see tomorrow. | ||
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Are you planning to sign the final deal on TikTok on Thursday when you meet with the market? | |
| We might. | ||
| We might. | ||
| That'll be one of the things we're discussing. | ||
| Somebody reported it's been approved recently. | ||
| I mean, we got an original approval from President Xi. | ||
| I expect we'll have an approval, but I'd rather wait till a couple of days to let you know. | ||
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Is it part of the grand deal coming up? | |
| No, but it's something we're going to talk about. | ||
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75% tariffs on China. | |
| Is the understanding from both countries that that will remain regardless of? | ||
| No, I don't want to tell you what the understanding is because what we understood yesterday or two days ago or even today is not going to be necessarily what it's going to be in two days. | ||
| We're going to have a great talk. | ||
| I have a lot of respect for President Xi. | ||
| I like him a lot. | ||
| He likes me a lot, I believe, and respects me, and I think he respects our country a lot. | ||
| And I think we're going to have a successful transaction for both countries. | ||
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Have you been braved on the incident on the Nimitz, both the fighter jet and the helicopter? | |
| I've heard about it. | ||
| Do you know what happened? | ||
| They're going to let me know pretty soon. | ||
| I think they should be able to find out. | ||
| It could be bad fuel. | ||
| I mean, it's possible it's bad fuel. | ||
| Very unusual that that would happen. | ||
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I mean, you don't think there was like Bowway or anything. | |
| No, I don't think so. | ||
| No, no, they think it might be bad fuel. | ||
| We're going to find out. | ||
| Nothing to hide. | ||
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Sir, has there been a snag in terms of the South Korea trade talks? | |
| Is that how is that? | ||
| No, I don't think so, Scott, is it? | ||
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No, no, there are just a lot of details to work out. | |
| It's a very complicated deal, and I think we're very close. | ||
| Do you expect to finalize that on Wednesday, or will it maybe not quite be done? | ||
| I think not quite. | ||
| But I think the overall framework is done. | ||
| We're just getting crossing the T's, nodding the I's. | ||
| That's what Ambassador Breer's team does. | ||
| And nobody's better at it than they are. | ||
| Mr. President. | ||
| Do you want to say so? | ||
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Sure. | |
| So with the Korean deal, there are a few parts to this. | ||
| There's national security-related issues, which are really not my wheelhouse. | ||
| And we have some pure trade issues where they've had some non-tariff barriers to us for a long time. | ||
| And we've resolved a lot of those. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| And then there's another piece, which is really about investment going forward. | ||
| that Koreans have a great plan to invest in U.S. shipbuilding even more than they've already done it. | ||
| We're talking right now, frankly, about how to implement Korean investment in the United States in the best way to make sure that we're... | ||
| And especially toward shipbuilding. | ||
| We're very much involved in getting the shipbuilding going again, which really we should have never lost years ago. | ||
| They lost that years, many, many decades ago. | ||
| But we were number one. | ||
| We'll be either number one or right up around them. | ||
| China's making a lot of ships. | ||
| I take my hat off to them. | ||
| Now they wouldn't if we had that situation where we charged essentially a fee. | ||
| But we're not looking to hurt their shipbuilding at least. | ||
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The Koreans asked for any DVs that guarantees after that immigration raid. | |
| No, but you know how I feel. | ||
| I was very much opposed. | ||
| Look, when they come in and they're making very complex machinery, equipment, things, they're going to have to bring some people in at least at the initial phase. | ||
| In that case, it was batteries. | ||
| Batteries are very complex and they're actually very dangerous to make. | ||
| You can't just pick people off an unemployment line and say, we just, you know, opened up a $2 billion battery factory. | ||
| So we've got an understanding. | ||
| And this is with the world. | ||
| By the way, this is not just with South Korea. | ||
| This is when they come into our country. | ||
| We have a lot of factories being built by outside, by foreign interests. | ||
| When they come in, some of these factories make very, very complex, very highly sophisticated equipment. | ||
| They've got to bring people in with them for a period of time. | ||
| They'll teach our people how to do it, but even for a fairly long period of time, they're going to need expertise to be successful. | ||
| And we're going to let people know, I'm letting them know right now, that when they come into our country, we can expect to see them bring in with them some very talented people that have been doing it for many years. | ||
| They'll teach our people how to do it. | ||
| Our people will be just as good as they are within a period of time. | ||
| And it'll be a phase-out. | ||
| But we want them to bring in experts, and that's the way it is. | ||
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Mr. President, what visa would they come under? | |
| We're going to have that said. | ||
| We're doing a whole new plan for that. | ||
| But you can't expect, let's say they come in, for instance, we have a massive number of chip companies, in particular one the biggest by far the biggest in the world, coming in. | ||
| You can't expect them to make unbelievably complex chips and computers and other things and pick people off the unemployment line that haven't worked in five years. | ||
| But we're going to, so I want them to come in with talented people, and they're going to, it'll be a phase-out, a slow phase-out. | ||
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Did I hear you right now? | |
| You said you were opposed to the way that raid in Georgia was hitting? | ||
| I was opposed to getting them out. | ||
| And in fact, before they got out, they were pretty well set. | ||
| But before they get out, I said they could say they went, they left, and they're going to be coming back. | ||
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Did you see the results from the Argentina election? | |
| It looks like me lately. | ||
| What a great question that is. | ||
| I love that question because that was a big win in Argentina. | ||
| I want to congratulate the victor and he was a big victor and he had a lot of help from us. | ||
| He had a lot of help. | ||
| I gave him an endorsement, a very strong endorsement, and it was really unexpected to have a victory of that. | ||
| Some people thought it would be hard to win, and not only did he win, he won by a lot. | ||
| So Argentina, that was a great thing. | ||
| And I give Scott and I give Jameis and everybody, Marco, a lot of credit for that because, you know, we are sticking with a lot of the countries in South America. | ||
| We're focused very much on South America, and we're getting a real strong handle in South America in a lot of ways, including the fact that we don't want their drugs. | ||
| We don't want drugs coming into our country, and you're seeing that. | ||
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You would suggest that you might not receive maybe with the Swax plan or with the changes to beef purchases, depending on the result of the country. | |
| We'll see. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| We're going to take care of it. | ||
| Look, we're going to take care of our ranchers when we're there. | ||
| We have two situations. | ||
| The ranchers, for 35 years, have done very poorly, the cattle people. | ||
| They've done very, very poorly. | ||
| And now they're doing well, but the price is up. | ||
| So what I can see happening is we're going to take some beef because I have to get the price down. | ||
| I want to get most prices are down. | ||
| If you look at energy and all the, I have things down, but beef is high. | ||
| And the cattle ranches are doing good. | ||
| They backed me from day one. | ||
| What we're going to do is we're going to make sure that they don't get hurt, but we have to also make sure that I get the prices down. | ||
| I want to get the prices down, like I did with eggs, like I did with lots of others. | ||
| We had a couple of them where when I first took over, eggs were double and quadruple what they were. | ||
| That was bite and small. | ||
| A lot of this is bite and small, too. | ||
| And we're going to get the price of beef down, and I'm going to make sure the cattle ranches don't get hurt. | ||
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Mr. President, Mr. President, you talked about North Korea on your way here. | |
| Have you heard anything back from? | ||
| I haven't mentioned it. | ||
| I haven't said anything, but I'd love to meet with him if he'd like to meet. | ||
| I got along great with Kim Jong-un. | ||
| I liked him. | ||
| He liked me. | ||
| If he wants to meet, I'll be in South Korea. | ||
| Would you extend your trip in order to try to meet? | ||
| Would you extend your trip in Asia in order to meet with him? | ||
| Well, I hadn't thought of it, but I think the answer would be, yeah, I would. | ||
| I would do that. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And if it's our last stop. | ||
| So it's pretty easy to do. | ||
| Yeah, I would do that. | ||
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When you do meet with him, sir. | |
| With Kim Jong-un? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| What does the U.S. have to do? | ||
| Well, I didn't say I was meeting with him, but if he'd like to meet him around, you know, I'll be in South Korea so I could be right over there. | ||
| Well, how do you? | ||
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But what could the U.S. offer him at this point? | |
| Well, we have sanctions. | ||
| That's pretty big to start off with. | ||
| I would say that's about as big as you get. | ||
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Anything is like an inducement to meet. | |
| I just had a good relationship with him. | ||
| I would love to see him if he wants to, if he even gets this message. | ||
| We haven't mentioned anything, but he knows I'm going over there. | ||
| If he'd like to meet, I'd love to meet him. | ||
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Sir, are you concerned about flights being halted at LA executive shortages for air traffic controllers? | |
| Is there a way we can pay them? | ||
| Yeah, there is. | ||
| But the Democrats should just do a simple extension. | ||
| That's the best way. | ||
| The Democrats are holding it up. | ||
| They want $1.5 trillion from people that came out of prisons or illegal aliens that come into our country. | ||
| We don't want to do that because that will help, really hurt the health care that we have in our country. | ||
| And frankly, we'd like to see better health care, period. | ||
| We're not looking to do that. | ||
| The Democrats can solve that problem with air traffic control. | ||
| All they have to do is say the country's open. | ||
| We only need five votes. | ||
| The Republicans are with us. | ||
| We only need five votes. | ||
| So let's see what happens. | ||
| I would imagine that gets taken care of. | ||
| Not only the controllers, but other people too. | ||
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How is your relationship with Milan these days? | |
| And is there anything else? | ||
| I think it's good. | ||
| I mean, you saw that during Charlie's beautiful tribute. | ||
| Elon came up. | ||
| It's good with Elon. | ||
| I like Elon. | ||
| I've always liked Elon. | ||
| Elon's good. | ||
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Have you talked to him since the memorial? | |
| On and off a little bit. | ||
| Yeah, very little. | ||
| Nothing much. | ||
| Look, he's a nice guy. | ||
| And he's a very capable guy. | ||
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| I've always liked him. | ||
| He had a bad spell. | ||
| He had a bad period. | ||
| He had a bad moment. | ||
| It was a stupid moment in his life. | ||
| Very stupid, I'm sure he'd tell you that. | ||
| But I like Elon, and I suspect I'll always like him. | ||
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Sir, what are your thoughts on the continued petests outside immigration centers in Chicago? | |
| Well, when people come into our country illegally, especially in terms of speed, they're very bad ones, murderers, because we've had murderers came in through the Biden administration. | ||
| We have very tight borders now, but we had open borders. | ||
| Incredibly, we had open borders. | ||
| What were they thinking? | ||
| But we have murders. | ||
| Over 11,000 murderers came in. | ||
| Many of them murdered more than one person. | ||
| We want those people out. | ||
| We want people that were in prisons. | ||
| We want them to go back to their prison, not our prison. | ||
| We want them out, and we'll get them out. | ||
| Get them all out. | ||
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Do you think deportation is? | |
| It was really a terrible mistake that was made. | ||
| When you think of it, so much of our time, our time, is spent on that subject, and it's a big subject because it's probably 20 or 25 million people, the real number. | ||
| And of the 25 million people, millions of people should not be here. | ||
| Now, all of them should be here if they came in illegally. | ||
| But we have to get the criminals out. | ||
| Washington, D.C. is doing great. | ||
| Memphis is starting to do great. | ||
| We just started there two weeks ago. | ||
| Any place we touch is going to do well. | ||
| If I were a governor, I'd say, please get your people in, whether it's National Guard or the military. | ||
| Get them in. | ||
| And as you know, we've been winning those cases. | ||
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Is there a deadline for San Francisco to get their primary style? | |
| Yeah, I mean, I'd like to do it, but I have a lot of very important people that are really into San Francisco that are really trying to do it themselves. | ||
| I said, we can do it better because we have a strong group, a tough group, a group that has powers that other people don't have. | ||
| Locally, you don't have the powers that the federal government has. | ||
| We can do a better job of it faster. | ||
| But I listened to a few of the people, you know, Jensen, who's fantastic, from NVIDIA, as you know, and Mark from Health's Time Magazine, among a lot of other things, right? | ||
| He's a good man. | ||
| And they would love to give it a shot. | ||
| And I say, go ahead, do it. | ||
| And I would have done that with Chicago, but Chicago is very far along the way. | ||
| We have to do something with that. | ||
| If I have a lot of friends influential in Chicago, if they call me, maybe I do the same thing. | ||
| But we have to save Chicago immediately. | ||
| We can do that pretty easily, but we have to get in quickly. | ||
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Can I go back to Argentina and quickly? | |
| What do you think the state of the fiscal situation is there now? | ||
| Do you think you'll have to do another election? | ||
| Well, we have the all-time expert right here. | ||
| I think right now we've made a lot of money based on that election because the bonds have gone up. | ||
| Their whole debt rating has gone up. | ||
| You know, that election made a lot of money for the United States. | ||
| Now, we're not in that for money per se, but if you look at the value of the bonds, the debt, Scott, you can go ahead. | ||
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Yeah, I think the great victory in this election, President Melee, I think he is going to expand his coalition. | |
| And they have some big refinancings next year. | ||
| But the Argentinian people have spoken. | ||
| President Trump, that they know that the U.S. is their ally, thanks to President Trump. | ||
| We're behind them. | ||
| And that they're going to be able to fix their fiscal and keep on the road. | ||
| He's working against 100 years of bad policies. | ||
| And he's going to break them thanks to the support for the United States. | ||
| And we're helping other South American countries also, as you know. | ||
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Will they need more support, or would you consider it if they need it? | |
| They might. | ||
| Yeah, we would consider it. | ||
| I think there'll be a good chance. | ||
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Yeah, we think the market's going to do it from here now that he's gotten over this. | |
| As I always said, this was a bridge. | ||
| We've bridged him. | ||
| Thanks to President Trump's support, he did better than anyone ever expected. | ||
| The Peronas said it wasn't a fair election because we were running against Donald Trump, too. | ||
| And now I think the market is going to take care of itself and it's going to have a lot of confidence in his policies and the way forward. | ||
| The polls were very wrong in that election. | ||
| I mean, the polls really got it wrong. | ||
| That was an election they said was going to be lost, and not only was it won, but it was won by a lot. | ||
| And maybe we did help. | ||
| I hope we helped. | ||
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Sir, for you, or Secretary Rubio, over the weekend, Israel assassinated a military official of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement. | |
| Does that violate the ceasefire law between Israel and Hamas, or are they treated as a separate group? | ||
| You talk about the strike against the Palestinian Jihad individuals? | ||
| Yeah, look, Israel didn't surrender its right to self-defense. | ||
| Obviously, the ceasefire is based on obligations on both sides. | ||
| By the way, we'd also like to see Hamas speed up the return of hostage bodies. | ||
| We still have 13 hostages, two Americans included. | ||
| But we don't view that as a violation of the ceasefire. | ||
| They have a right, there's an imminent threat to Israel. | ||
| And all the mediators agree with that. | ||
| How transparent is the Trump administration? | ||
| You got Scott, you got Jameson, you got Markham. | ||
| We're not saying you please don't ask this question. | ||
| You can ask anything you want. | ||
| There's never been anything like this. | ||
| Do you agree with that? | ||
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Well, I just wanted to add some clarifying question from my earlier thing. | |
| You said five Fed candidates. | ||
| That's Waller, Hassett, Worsch, Ryder, and Bowman, right? | ||
| Greener. | ||
| Reeder and Greener. | ||
| And Berlin. | ||
| Sorry, thank you. | ||
| I just don't think that. | ||
| Whether a surprise fifth and you've had a surprise six occasionally with Secretary Bessett. | ||
| He likes what he's doing too much. | ||
| I don't think you could pull him out of there no matter what. | ||
| It's like Caroline. | ||
| How's Caroline doing good? | ||
| Would you say she's doing good or just okay? | ||
| I think she's doing good. | ||
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She's been very gracious to me. | |
| She's doing very good. | ||
| Yes, no. | ||
| Without her, we wouldn't be here right now. | ||
| She's doing great. | ||
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When do you think you'll make a decision on defense? | |
| Last minute. | ||
| I'd say maybe by the end of the year. | ||
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Yeah, before Christmas, right around? | |
| I think by the end of the year, early next year, but by the end of the year. | ||
| We want to get too laid out as soon as possible. | ||
| We want to be too early. | ||
| We're too late. | ||
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Sir, Steve Bandon said in a recent interview that there could be plans for you to be able to run and potentially win a third term in 2028. | |
| Is that something you'd be willing to challenge the court to meet? | ||
| Well, I haven't really thought about it. | ||
| We have some very good people, as you know. | ||
| But I have the best poll numbers I've ever had. | ||
| I mean, I just solved eight wars and a ninth is coming. | ||
| I believe Russia-Ukraine will happen. | ||
| But we just did, you know, we just left, and when you look at the treaty we just did, that was a war. | ||
| That was thousands of people were already shot at the border. | ||
| And when you look at what we just did, it was pretty amazing. | ||
| Pretty amazing. | ||
| We got a lot of good credit. | ||
| And I really have to thank Malaysia for that because they really, the Prime Minister and everybody really helped get the two countries together. | ||
| But it was quite a great peace treaty. | ||
| But that was one of eight. | ||
| And it makes me feel good. | ||
| I mean, it's millions of people that we save. | ||
| I saved the lives of millions of people. | ||
| That's what's important. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They are good people. | ||
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For 2028, they're very good people. | |
| Oh, we have great people. | ||
| I don't have to get into that, but we have one of them standing right here. | ||
| We have JD, obviously. | ||
| The vice president is great. | ||
| I think Marco's great. | ||
| I think I'm not sure if anybody would run against us. | ||
| I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| I believe that. | ||
| I would love to do it. | ||
| I have my best numbers ever. | ||
| It's very terrible. | ||
| I have my best numbers. | ||
| If you read it, am I not ruling it out? | ||
| I mean, you'll have to tell me. | ||
| All I can tell you is that we have a great, a great group of people, which they don't. | ||
| They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. | ||
| They have AOC's low IQ. | ||
| You give her an IQ test. | ||
| Have her pass the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. | ||
| I took, those are very hard, they're really aptitude tests, I guess, at a certain point, but they're cognitive tests. | ||
| Let AOC go against Trump. | ||
| Let Jasmine go against Trump. | ||
| I don't think Jasmine, the first couple of questions are easy. | ||
| A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. | ||
| When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to ten and twenty and twenty-five, they couldn't come close to answering any of those questions. | ||
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The readout from Walter Reed mentioned advanced medical imaging. | |
| Did you get an MRI? | ||
| Can you tell us why? | ||
| I did. | ||
| I got an MRI. | ||
| It was perfect. | ||
| I mean, I gave you the full results. | ||
| We had an MRI, and the machine, you know, the whole thing. | ||
| And it was perfect. | ||
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Can you say what in particular they were? | |
| You could ask the doctors. | ||
| In fact, we have doctors traveling with us, but I think they gave you a very conclusive. | ||
| Nobody has ever given you reports like I gave you. | ||
| And if I didn't think it was going to be good, either I would let you know negatively. | ||
| I wouldn't run. | ||
| I'd do something. | ||
| But the doctors said some of the best reports for the age, some of the best reports they've ever seen. | ||
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One theory on how you might try to serve a third term is that you could run as the vice president. | |
| Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. | ||
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Is it the White House for the White House Councils or your legal position? | |
| No, you'd be allowed to do that, but I wouldn't run. | ||
| I wouldn't do it. | ||
| I think it's too cute. | ||
| Yeah, I would rule that out because it's too cute. | ||
| I think the people wouldn't like that. | ||
| It's too cute. | ||
| It's not, it wouldn't be right. | ||
| Sort of golf-related questions? | ||
| Do you mind? | ||
| You're most, personally, the most difficult shot for you in golf. | ||
| You mean right now? | ||
| Well, how will you play it? | ||
| The most difficult shot. | ||
| It used to be chipping, but I become a very good chipper. | ||
| I hit them all pretty good. | ||
| I'm a pretty good golfer. | ||
| I won 38 club championships. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| And pretty much, I hit, I'm very solid, very consistent, pretty long. | ||
| I mean, I hit them all pretty long. | ||
| I play with Gary Player. | ||
| You know, Gary's 90, and he shot 70 with me the last time we played, which is pretty amazing from 6800. | ||
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Putting is pretty good. | |
| Putting is pretty good, yeah. | ||
| Putting is good. | ||
| Used to be, I'd say putting used to be the best, but I'd say putting is pretty good. | ||
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Sir, can I ask just one more trade question? | |
| There were some treats to the Vietnam field where they're going to have some zero tariff items that can come into the United States. | ||
| Why was that change made? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| That's just, there's a handful of things like coffee and center, the type of stuff we don't make in the United States are pro. | ||
| We don't logically we can't, so it makes sense if people are going to do a deal with us. | ||
| We'll give them a good deal there. | ||
| But overall, 20% on Vietnam. | ||
| And we want to get coffee down a little bit. | ||
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So just to clarify, technically, that was stuff that was at 20% and now will be brought to zero, is that? | |
| Well, it's been brought to whatever congressional level of tariff there is, right? | ||
| I mean, this is, you know, working, we have a huge deficit with Vietnam, and so they've taken down all their tariffs to zero on everything. | ||
| All the non-tariff barriers gone. | ||
| They're going to accept all our autos, all our standards, all of that. | ||
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We have 20% of the game. | |
| Which, by the way, people said impossible to get. | ||
| They did say impossible. | ||
| They're all gone. | ||
| Yup. | ||
| And so we just have a few items like that that we can't grow or extract from the ground in the United States. | ||
| Certain spices, right, that we don't grow in America. | ||
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How worried are you still about the risk of trans shipment through Vietnam? | |
| Yeah, so part of the deal, they've agreed to a duty evasion agreement with us. | ||
| And if we catch them doing it, we can charge an additional 40%, right? | ||
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On top of the 20%. | |
| That's right, yeah. | ||
| And that's an executive order that's already in place. | ||
| You guys have a very interesting couple of days. | ||
| We have Japan, and then we have South Korea, but we have China coming, and it's going to be very interesting. | ||
| I have a lot of respect for President Xi, and we are going to, I think we're going to come away with the deal. | ||
| But I really feel good. | ||
| Our country is doing so well economically. | ||
| It's doing so incredibly well. | ||
| The Democrats should let it open. | ||
| I guess they don't do that because it's doing so well. | ||
| It's too bad. | ||
| But on the macro scale, it's not having that kind of an effect. | ||
| We just want people to get paid. | ||
| We think it's very unfair. | ||
| And how about the man that put up $130 million to make sure our military got paid? | ||
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You won't tell him? | |
| I won't tell you. | ||
| I won't tell you. | ||
| But this is a person that called me that said, sir, I'd like to make a contribution of any difference needed for the United States military. | ||
| I said, I don't know. | ||
| That could be a big number. | ||
| And we worked it out. | ||
| It was about $130 million. | ||
| And he wrote a check for $130 million because he's an unbelievable patriot. | ||
| And that's what it's all about. | ||
| So we're going to have a good time over the next two days. | ||
| Get a little rest. | ||
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What good one, sir? | |
| What is that? | ||
| I haven't been watching it too much, the world says. | ||
| I'm disappointed they didn't put Pete Rose in. | ||
| I said, put Pete Rose in before he dies. | ||
| He had over 4,000 hits. | ||
| They didn't do it. | ||
| And with all the gambling you see now, I mean, give me a break. | ||
| They didn't put Pete Rose in. | ||
| I asked the commissioner, put Pete Rose in, Commissioner, long before he died. | ||
| Like a year before he died. | ||
| They didn't get it done. | ||
| Should have gotten it done. | ||
| Pete Rose was a great baseball player. | ||
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One quick one. | |
| You said yesterday that you might invite China to Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| When would that be? | ||
| Well, sometime after. | ||
| I'm going to go. | ||
| We pretty much agreed that I'll be going to China. | ||
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When is that? | |
| In the earlier part of the year. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And President Xi will be coming into maybe Washington or Palm Beach or someplace sometime after that. | ||
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Vietnam said that you accepted an invitation there as well. | |
| Do you plan a visit? | ||
| Well, he invited me. | ||
| If I can, I will. | ||
| We have a good relationship with Vietnam. | ||
| And they were, look, they've made a lot of money with the United States over the years, but the president said, really, didn't know what they were doing. | ||
| But now, as you know, Vietnam is not charging us tariffs. | ||
| And that's a big step. | ||
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And based on that, I wouldn't Friday, Ambassador Greer launched a 301 on whether China reneged on its phase one deal. | |
| Is that part of these talks? | ||
| Would you pause that? | ||
| How connected is that to the Thursday talks and talk to you about it? | ||
| It may be a part of the talk, but it may be a part of just the negotiations. | ||
| That was a separate deal from before, and there's a lot of view in the United States and they didn't keep aspects of that deal. | ||
| So we're just looking into it. | ||
| That's continuing, but we're really. | ||
| If all works out well, I'm sure they'll be able to talk us out of it. | ||
| You agree? | ||
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| I think so. | ||
| I have a feeling they'll talk us out of it. | ||
| You want said that you have a great relationship with Xi Jinping. | ||
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You really get along. | |
| Could you just elaborate on that? | ||
| What about your relationship? | ||
| It's so great, and what about him? | ||
| I just like it. | ||
| We were obviously that was hurt pretty badly by COVID when COVID came in. | ||
| Came in through Wuhan. | ||
| Everybody knows that. | ||
| I always said it. | ||
| I said it right from the beginning. | ||
| So that had an impact. | ||
| But, you know, an impact for a lot of reasons. | ||
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| Some point we didn't get to speak as much because we're all busy getting out of that nightmare. | ||
| But no, I think I have a very good relationship, as good as anybody, and I would say that likewise with him. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
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this evening maryland senator chris van holland a member of the senate foreign relations committee talks about the future of american diplomacy and the humanitarian situation in gaza From the Council on Foreign Relations, watch live at 6:30 p.m. on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile video app, and online at c-span.org. | |
| The book is called Breakneck, China's Quest to Engineer the Future. | ||
| Author Dan Wong was born in China in 1992. | ||
| His parents moved to Canada when he was seven. | ||
| In 2014, he graduated from the University of Rochester in New York. | ||
| Then in 2018, Dan Wong went to live in China until he returned to the U.S. in 2023. | ||
| He then went to the offices of the Yale Law School and wrote about his comparison of China and the United States. | ||
| He writes in his intro: quote, a strain of materialism, often crass, runs through both countries, sometimes producing variations of successful entrepreneurs, sometimes creating displays of extraordinary tastelessness, but overall contributing to a spirit of vigorous competition. | ||
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Author Dan Wong with his book, Breakneck, China's Quest to Engineer the Future, on this episode of BookNotes Plus with our host, Brian Lamb. | |
| BookNotes Plus is available wherever you get your podcasts and on the C-SPAN Now app. | ||
| On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Kirst Armer takes questions from members of the House of Commons on domestic and foreign policy issues. | ||
| From London, watch live starting at 8 a.m. Eastern on C-SPAN 2, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. | ||
| This afternoon, it's a discussion on the media's role in investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus. | ||
| From the Brookings Institution, we'll have live coverage at 1:30 p.m. on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app, and online at c-span.org. | ||
| Over the weekend, Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned for Zaran Momdowne, the Democratic nominee in New York City's 2025 mayor's race. | ||
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During the event, Mr. Momdowney outlined his agenda to provide free childcare and bus rides for all New Yorkers. | |
| This runs just over an hour. | ||
| To be home. | ||
| And it is especially great to be gathering with you all tonight in Queens, New York, the world's borough, the jewel of America. | ||
| Just in this slice of New York City alone, we represent over 100 languages and cultures. | ||
| We welcome people of all religions, faiths, and creeds. | ||
| We honor all genders, races, orientations, and status. | ||
| And here, we defend immigrants. | ||
| We are a working people's borough in a working people's city. | ||
| And all of that makes us a fascist worst nightmare. | ||
| Queens, We gather here today at both a perilous moment for our country and on the precipice of hope for our city. | ||
| Because in nine short days, we will work our hearts out to elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani as the next mayor of the great city of New York. | ||
| And it is going to take all of us. | ||
| But to be honest, it always has. | ||
| That we are all here in this moment, during this time, is not a coincidence. | ||
| And it is also not a coincidence that the very forces that Zohran is up against in this race mirrors what we are up against nationally. | ||
| Both an authoritarian, criminal presidency fueled by corruption and bigotry and an ascendant right-wing extremist movement. | ||
| And an insufficient, eroded, bygone political establishment, this time in the form of Andrew Cuomo, whose pursuit of power has blinded them from what that power is supposed to be used for in the first place, which is to aid and put the working people of America and New York City first. | ||
| And Queens, both of these challenges are fueled and funded by the same billionaire class whose apparent greatest fear is an equitable, affordable, and prosperous nation and city for all, not just the very few. | ||
| But we have been here before as a city and a country, and we have won before, and we will win again on November 4th. | ||
| Because Queens, it has always been in our nation's darkest chapters that our brightest lights emerge. | ||
| And we, each and every one of us, whether we like it or not, are living history today. | ||
| From our nation's beginning, American democracy has always reflected the struggle between humanity's highest and lowest natures, between subjects and citizens, the Confederacy and the Union, freedom and bondage, labor and capital rights and regimes. | ||
| And it is no different today. | ||
| The struggle of our time today is the single most unjust concentration of wealth in the hands of the very few, unseen in our nation's history and the world's history. | ||
| And it is a time such as this, in which demanding what should be considered the most basic tenets of human dignity, that is considered a radical and outlandish act. | ||
| It is a time such as today when demanding affordable housing is considered a radical and outlandish act. | ||
| That we can afford our lives, our groceries, our transit is considered an outlandish and radical act. | ||
| That we accept our neighbor as ourselves. | ||
| A radical and outlandish act. | ||
| But we must remember in a time such as this, we are not the crazy ones, New York City. | ||
| We are not the outlandish ones, New York City. | ||
| They want us to think we are crazy. | ||
| We are sane. | ||
| To demand an affordable and decent housing, a decent wage, the right to health care, that we pay to care for our people instead of the flattening of Palestinians and oppressed people abroad is not a radical act. | ||
| It is basic and core humanity. | ||
| That is why the election of Zahran is as important as our cause today. | ||
| Childcare, buses, rent, and our rights. | ||
| Here in New York City, it is the jewel and the center of all that is possible in America. | ||
| And on November 4th, we will prove that today. | ||
| We will prove it to the world and we will prove it to the nation. | ||
| And we will send a loud message to President Donald Trump that his authoritarianism is no good here. | ||
| We will send a message to ICE that secret police do not belong here. | ||
| And we will demonstrate the heroism that exists in the everyday people throughout our city. | ||
| Heroism like that that we saw last week, a young woman in a polka dot dress standing up to a secret police officer in Canal Street. | ||
| She is New York City. | ||
| The young man in a white helmet jumping off his bicycle saying, not in my neighborhood, that is New York City. | ||
| The line cooks and the delivery workers every day serving and making sure that we are clothed and fed and that our children are cared for. | ||
| That is America, New York City. | ||
| That is who we fight for. | ||
| That is what this victory is about. | ||
| Because New York, America, our freedoms and our future, when I think about what is happening throughout our nation today and what Donald Trump has even done reflected, symbolic of so much in his demolition of the White House and the East Wing. | ||
| We see what he's doing to that and we must let him know that this injustice, no matter what he's doing, that house doesn't belong to him, New York. | ||
| It belongs to us. | ||
| It belongs to the people of this country. | ||
| And I want us all to remember and to know that the future, our future, is not determined by a despot in a house built by enslaved people. | ||
| Our future will be determined not in a house built by slaves, but in a city built by freemen, in a city built by unionists and immigrants and suffragists. | ||
| The bricks laid by working people past, present, and future, the seamstresses and the unionists who paid for our rights in blood. | ||
| This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping Holocaust, black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Manhattan, in Staten Island, | ||
| in this country in a vision to build the freest, toughest, and greatest city on earth. | ||
| And we will not stop now, New York. | ||
| It is no surprise. | ||
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| It is no surprise to me, New York, that it is New York and that it is our great city that we, our city, have chosen to adorn ourselves with the nation's greatest monument to freedom, the statue of liberty. | ||
| And she reminds us every day that the central commitment of America is an unconditional freedom, precisely of the kind that cannot be bought, that is available to the huddled masses yearning to be free. | ||
| This is America, New York City. | ||
| Don't let them tell you any different. | ||
| Don't let them tell you that we are the exception. | ||
| We are the rule. | ||
| We are the standard. | ||
| We are the acceptance. | ||
| And we set the bar for America. | ||
| I'm talking to you, Donald Trump. | ||
| There has been a day and there will be a day after. | ||
| And it belongs to us. | ||
| Thank you, New York. | ||
| I love you, New York. | ||
| You have made my life possible, my mother's life possible, my father's life possible. | ||
| All of our lives have been made possible by this great city and by our shared contract and bond to one another. | ||
| And it is my honor tonight to introduce to you all another great born New Yorker from Brooklyn. | ||
| Senator Sanders and I recently came in. | ||
| We were in Indiana last night. | ||
| We both paid a visit to the home of the great Eugene Debs. | ||
| And I had the honor of presenting Senator Sanders last night with the National Eugene Debs Award, In which the Foundation and the people who steward Debs' legacy have honored Senator Sanders as the foremost leader and advocate for labor and class struggle in the United States of America. | ||
| And it remains such a great privilege and honor to call him a friend, a mentor, a treasured person that we had, and a New Yorker, that's right. | ||
| And so I know we all love him so dearly. | ||
| And so let's make sure that we give him the biggest rousing welcome that he receives this year in introducing Senator Bernie Sanders. | ||
| People of for sending Andrea to the US Congress She is not only one of the great members of Congress, she is inspiring working people and young people all across the country. | ||
| Thank you, New York. | ||
| Now, everybody knows that a New York City mayor's race attracts a lot of attention. | ||
| That's not new. | ||
| It's the largest city in the country. | ||
| You've got 8 million people. | ||
| Everybody is interested in what happens here. | ||
| But this mayor's race, my friends, is different. | ||
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| It is not just the folks here in New York City who are paying attention. | ||
| It's not just people all across our country who are watching this race. | ||
| It is not just the President of the United States who seems to be very, very concerned about who wins this election. | ||
| The truth is that people all over the world are paying attention to what will happen here a week from Tuesday. | ||
| Now, why is that? | ||
| Why has this campaign created such an unbelievable amount of interest, literally all over the world? | ||
| And the answer is obvious. | ||
| These are not normal times. | ||
| This is not a normal election. | ||
| This election takes place at a moment in American history when we have a rigged economy with more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had in the history of our country. | ||
| This election takes place at a time when the wealthiest people in America have never ever had it so good, while 60% of people in our country are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to pay their rent or mortgage, | ||
| struggling to afford child care or higher education for their kids, struggling to afford health care, struggling to afford decent quality food, struggling how to figure out how they will retire with some shred of dignity after working their entire lives. | ||
| This election takes place when the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, has one of the highest rates of childhood poverty and senior poverty of almost any nation. | ||
| And when, in this rich country, 800,000 Americans, including many veterans, are homeless. | ||
| This election takes place at a time when we have a president who has given a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top 1%, has given $900 billion in tax breaks to the largest corporations in our country. | ||
| And to pay for those tax breaks, he is throwing 15 million Americans off the health care they have by slashing Medicaid. | ||
| And in addition, he is forcing over 20 million Americans to see a doubling in their health care premiums. | ||
| This election is taking place when we have an administration in Washington which every day is moving us toward an authoritarian society undermining our Constitution and the rule of law. | ||
| This election is taking place when we have a corrupt campaign finance system which allows billionaires in both political parties to select the candidates they want and to buy elections. | ||
| Ordinary Americans get one vote. | ||
| You get one vote. | ||
| Meanwhile, billionaires get the opportunity to spend as much as they want to elect the candidates they want. | ||
| That is the context in which this election is taking place. | ||
| That is why this election is so enormously important, and that is why Zaran Mamdani must become the next mayor of New York. | ||
| New York must have a mayor who represents the working families of this city, not the billionaire class. | ||
| The reason why this campaign has generated so much interest around the world and so much excitement is that people want to know the answer to one very simple question, | ||
| and that is, in the year 2025, when the people on top have never ever had so much economic and political power, is it possible, is it possible for ordinary people, for working class people, to come together and defeat those oligarchs? | ||
| You're damn right we can. | ||
| And let me tell you something else. | ||
| At a moment when Americans are extremely distressed about where we are as a nation, economically and politically, a victory here in New York will give hope and inspiration to people throughout our country and throughout the world. | ||
| That is what this election is about. | ||
| And that is why Donald Trump is paying attention to this election. | ||
| Ordinary people, working class people, black and white and Latino, Asian, gay and straight, coming together to take on the oligarchy. | ||
| is Trump's worst nightmare. | ||
| And what Trump and his oligarchic friends know, that if New Yorkers come together and elect Zoran, we can do that from California to Maine. | ||
| can defeat the oligarchy. | ||
| And what the oligarchs fear, what they fear is the people will start understanding that this country belongs to us, not them. | ||
| And all over the country, when people are inspired, when people are standing up to power, they will ask some very simple questions. | ||
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| Why are we in the United States the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right? | ||
| Why are our teachers the salaries they deserve? | ||
| So that we can have the best public educational system in the world. | ||
| Why aren't we doing what used to exist in New York and all over this country 70 years ago, make public colleges and universities tuition-free? | ||
| Why in the richest country on earth aren't we ending homelessness and building five million units of low-income and affordable housing? | ||
| Why don't we make it easier for workers to join unions? | ||
| And why don't we raise the national minimum wage to a living wage? | ||
| And when so many of our seniors are struggling to cover their basic needs, some 22% of seniors in America are trying to survive on $15,000 a year less. | ||
| Why aren't we raising Social Security benefits and providing pensions to the workers in this country who desperately need them? | ||
| And why don't we have a foreign policy which does not spend billions of dollars on a net dignity of government starving children in Gaza? | ||
| In other words, in other words, my friends, in other words, my friends, a victory for Iran will help Americans understand that in the richest country in the history of the world, is nothing we cannot accomplish. | ||
| Now the oligarchs, the oligarchs and the political establishment in New York tell us that Zoran's agenda for New York is radical. | ||
| Really? | ||
| At a time when working families in this city are finding it hard to live here because of the outrageously high cost of housing, I don't think it's radical to say that the city should freeze the rent and triple its stock of affordable housing. | ||
| That ain't radical. | ||
| At a time when working families can't afford the high cost of childcare, and psychologists tell us the most important years of human development, intellectual and emotional, are zero through four. | ||
| Why shouldn't we have a situation where every child in America gets the best quality child care we can provide? | ||
| That ain't radical. | ||
| Taking care of our kids is not radical. | ||
| At a time when getting to work is too expensive and we want to encourage more utilization of public transportation, it is not a radical idea to say that buses in this city should be free and fast. | ||
| At a time when every parent wants their kids eating good quality food, not junk food, and there are neighborhoods in this city where it is simply not affordable or possible to get that food. | ||
| It is not a radical idea to say that there should be municipally funded grocery stores. | ||
| And by the way, when billionaires and large corporations and the very wealthy are doing extraordinarily well, | ||
| when the very richest people in this country often pay an effective tax rate lower than truck drivers or nurses, it is not a radical idea to say that the rich should start paying their fair share of taxes. | ||
| Brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters, these ideas are not radical. | ||
| They are common sense and they are what the people of New York City want and need. | ||
| Now let me be very clear. | ||
| As someone who served as mayor of Burlington, Vermont for eight years, a city just a little bit smaller than New York, I can tell you absolutely that being mayor is not an easy job. | ||
| In local government, the people hold you accountable for everything for picking up the trash, for crime problems, for the quality of education their kids receive, for traffic jams, blame the mayor. | ||
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| And that's what mayors have to deal with. | ||
| And it is not easy. | ||
| Zorhan Mamdani as mayor is not going to have all the answers. | ||
| The problems facing this country and every other major city in America are in fact enormous. | ||
| So let me say this to you from the bottom of my heart. | ||
| When he is elected, your job is not over. | ||
| Zaran is going to need your help every single day. | ||
| In this unprecedented moment in our nation's history, all of us together must act in an unprecedented way. | ||
| And that means governing New York City and other cities in an unprecedented way. | ||