Dart the President of the United States let's
watch hello everybody thank you very much being here it's cabinet meeting and
we have plenty of things to discuss and plenty of success we've had a tremendous
amount of success we're working however right now in immigration which has been
going on for many years we have come up with a lot of solutions but we have
Democrats that don't want to approve anything because that's probably they
think bad for the election that's coming up unfortunately there are a lot of
people suffering and that's unfortunate unrelated and before we get into that
the new employment claims recently out just yesterday show that we have the
lowest level in nearly a half a century at something that is an incredible
statistic and then half a century it's a long time and the economy is booming
it's doing really well we're renegotiating trade deals we're doing
very well in those trade deals stacked taking a little period of time we put
tariffs on certain countries and certain industries where it's been very unfair
to the United States our treasury is taking in billions of dollars and these
other countries are coming along that have not treated us well and they are
negotiating very vigorously and lots of good things are happening this should
have been taken care of a long time before my administration came into being
but for some reason for 25-30 years nobody ever looked at trade deals
they're out of control how bad they are but well
to make them very good and we're going to make them fair for both countries for
our country and for whichever country were dealing with and there are plenty
of them because they're all bad there's nothing good my administration is also
acting swiftly to address the illegal immigration crisis on the southern
border loopholes and our immigration laws all supported by extremists open
border Democrats and that's what they are they're extremists open border
Democrats if you look at Nancy Pelosi you look at Chuck Schumer you'll see
tapes where they wanted to have what borders they needed borders for security
just a short while ago number of years ago I see Chuck Schumer we must have
borders Hillary Clinton we must have borders if people penetrate our borders
we must get them out of our country now all of a sudden that big open border
people it's a whole big con job in the meantime people are suffering because of
the Democrats so we've created and they've created and they've let it
happen a massive child smuggling industry
that's exactly what it's become traffickers if you think about this
human traffickers are making a fortune it's a disgrace these loopholes forced
the release of alien families and minors into the country when they illegally
cross the border since 2014 alone nearly 200,000 unaccompanied alien minors have
been released into the United States as a result of Democrat backed loopholes
including catch and release which is one of the worst you catch them and then you
release them might as well save you time don't bother catching them and this is
what we're stuck with they're the worst immigration laws in the history of the
world the whole world is laughing at the United States and they happen for years
these alien miners were separated and sent all the way up here alone but they
really came up with coyotes you know the coyote is not good these are not good
people they were set up here with human traffickers because the Democrat
supported policies have allowed this to happen Democrats also refuse to fund the
personnel the bed space the resources that we need to house D miners now they
want us to take care of the miners and that's fine but they don't want to give
us the money to take care of because the worst everything looks they think the
better they're going to do with respect to the Blue Wave which is turning out
frankly to be a red wave if you look at the polls I think we're gonna have a red
wave not a blue wave so they want us to take care of bed space and resources and
personnel and take everybody and you know like let's run the most luxurious
hotel in the world for everybody but they don't want to give us the money so
you could ask them about that we have to house these miners that we have to have
them safely and frankly we have to house them and we should be taking good care
of them and then we should return them back home that's what we have to do but
every time we ask for resources the Democrats say no they said no to
everything they're obstructionist because they think that's good
politically I think it's bad politically for them I think it's bad politically
we'll say in addition Democrat and court-ordered loopholes prevent family
detention and lead to family separation no matter how you cut it
I signed a very good executive order yesterday but that's only limited no
matter how you cut it leads to separation ultimately I'm directing HHS
DHS and DOJ to work together to keep the illegal
immigrant families together during the immigration process and to reunite these
previously separated groups but the only real solution is for Congress to close
the catch-and-release loopholes that have fueled the child smuggling industry
the Democrats are causing tremendous damage and destruction and lives by not
doing something about this and they know that they know that better than anyone
up there with a pen if we don't close these little poles there is no amount of
money or personnel in the world to address the crisis very serious crisis
been going on so long this isn't Trump administration you look back at 2014
during the Obama administration they have pictures that were so bad they had
a judge that said it was inhumane the way they were treating children take a
look at some of the court rulings against the Obama administration they
talked about inhumane treatment I read them I looked at them they're all over
the place inhumane treatment they were treating
them terribly we have a situation where some of these places they're really
running them well and I give a lot of credit to secretary Neilson and all of
the people that have worked it's so nice is that people have seen but it's still
something that shouldn't be taking place my wife our first lady is down now at
the border because it really bothered her to be looking at this and to seeing
it as it bothered me as it bothered everybody at this table we're all
bothered by it but we need two to tango we have 51 votes in the Senate we need
60 unfortunately because we have the ridiculous filibuster rule so we need 60
and I think I'll get four or five or six from senators frankly running in states
where I won by 25 30 40 points with Mike and I think we'll get six senators maybe
we'll get seven senators that still doesn't get us to 60 so there's nothing
you can do to get there and people don't understand that when we have a majority
in the center we have a majority by one but we need 10 votes so we need 10
essentially we need 10 Democrats not going to get them they're told by
Schumer and Pelosi don't do it because we want to see if we can pick up seats
they don't care about the children they don't care about the injury they don't
care about the problems they don't care about anything all they do is say
obstruct and let's see how we do because no policies that are any good they're
not good politicians they've got nothing going all they're good at is obstructing
and they generally stick together I respect them for that that's about it
their policies stink there's no good they have no ideas they
have no nothing the Democrats all they can do is obstruct and stay together and
vote against and make it impossible to take care of children and families and
to take care of immigration we should be able to make an immigration bill that
can really solve the problem not just this this is one aspect of it this is
one very important but small aspect of it we should be able to do a bill I'd
invite them to come over to the White House anytime they want this afternoon
would be good after the cabinet meeting would be good they are invited
officially I'll let you do the inviting let the press do the inviting but we
have to do something about immigration in this country for 50 years of long
before that it was a disaster but over the last 2025 years it's gotten worse
every time they write a rule or regulation it makes it worse not better
we can solve this problem we have to hire thousands of judges no country in
the world is hiring judges like that they hire border people like you can't
come into the country in Mexico by the way is doing nothing for us nothing they
have the strongest immigration laws they can do whatever they want they can keep
people out of Mexico you have a 2,000 mile journey up Mexico they walk through
Mexico like it's walking through Central Park it's ridiculous
Mexico does nothing for us so then when people say why are you being so tough
with NAFTA and I am being tough because we it's a terrible deal for the United
States Mexico is making a hundred billion dollars a year of us and the
horrible NAFTA deal and I am being tough one of the reasons I'm being tough
because they do nothing for us at the border they encourage people frankly to
walk through Mexico and go into the United States because they're drug
traffickers they're human traffickers they're coyotes I mean we get in some
real beauties Mexico is doing nothing for us except taking our money and
sending us drugs and doing nothing they could solve this problem in two minutes
you wouldn't even have to do anything but they don't do it they talk a good
game but they don't do it so we'll see how that all comes out it would be very
interesting to see so with that I'll end by saying we had a tremendous success in
North Korea we continued to work on that Mike Pompeo has been fantastic John
Bolton working together with Mike has been fantastic I don't even know where
and there it is 31 might have gone back to North Korea
spent so much time in North Korea surprised to see you here but I think I
can speak for both of us in saying it's been an incredible experience the
relationship is very good they've stopped the sending of missiles
including ballistic missiles they're destroying their engine site they're
blowing it up they've already blown up one of their big test sites in fact it
was actually four of their big test sites and the big thing is it will be a
total depolarization which is already starting taking place and I understand
Mike that they've already sent back or in the process of sending back the
remains of our great heroes who died in North Korea during the war and that's
already in the process of coming back Plus as you all know very well we got
back our hostages are three hostages or right now living very happily with their
families and we're very happy about that so we've made tremendous progress with
respect to North Korea even since I last spoke to you what we agreed to do is
have a meeting I know that some of the media says oh they agreed to meet well
and anybody would have agreed to meet and it would not have been possible for
past administrations to have met in the way that we've met this was an
incredible important meeting all over Asia they're in love with the United
States because what we've done and Japan I spoke to Prime Minister Abbey and he
was so thrilled he doesn't have Rockets going over Japan that makes them very
happy general you know that right he's very thrilled not to see rockets going
over Japan there were plenty of them sent right over Japan and he said I want
to thank you because what you've done is incredible there are no more rockets
going and there's no thought of it now things can change I said it last night
at a speech things can change personalities can change maybe end up
with conflict maybe you don't but the relationship that mike has and I have
with Chairman Kim and his group is a very good one very strong one and I
think it's going to lead to tremendous success but the document we signed if
people actually read it to the public you'd see number one statement we will
immediately begin total D nuclearization of North Korea nobody thought that would
be possible if you remember a year and a half ago when Mike and I came into
office and when this group came into office everybody was talking about
there's gonna be a war gonna be a war with North Korea during the Obama years
it's all I heard about war with North Korea you have 28 million people 30
miles away from the border where they have thousands of massive they call them
cannons and that's what they are they're bigger than howitzers and they're all
aimed at Seoul Seoul has 28 million people and it would be not a catastrophe
of a hundred thousand people or 200,000 like I'd read from you this is a this
could have been a catastrophe at 30 40 50 million people and I think we're very
close to having that situation so if we've had some very good news even over
the last couple of days they want to get it done we want to get it done and we're
moving quickly so North Korea has been an incredible experience for me and I
we're gonna help them also get back on track
we think that it has tremendous potential
chairman Kim thinks it has tremendous potential I want to also thank as you
know Prime Minister Robby I want to thank President moon from South Korea
he's been terrific he's been really moving it along and pushing as hard as
they can but without the United States had had no chance whatsoever I also
wanted to thank President Xi of China because the border was very strong
during a very critical period unfortunately the border is getting a
little bit weaker now but that's okay and that's okay but we have to get them
to keep it tough but I do want to thank President Xi of China so with all of
that we're having tremendous numbers tremendous economic success I think
we're having the most successful period of time economically perhaps in our
country's history GDP numbers have been great but the ones that are coming out
I'm really looking forward to seeing that I think you're gonna see numbers I
just see the activity I see the business yesterday and last evening was really
that was an incredible evening that we spent that was to me
just an incredible evening a lot of you were there I see a lot of the faces a
lot of you were there and the least 15,000 people couldn't get into the
arena and the arena was big it held nine thousand people but sadly 15,000 people
couldn't get into the arena but it was a very special evening and people had a
good time but they also heard a lot so I want to thank everybody very much Mick
Mulvaney is going to be giving a little report you can do it in front of the
media would the media like to hear Mick Mulvaney x' report or would you find it
extraordinarily boring and ever not fit for camera did you like to hear
it yeah it'll be good and why don't we do this
we'll say grace afterwards Mike and will will do Mick and then we'll say grace
you don't necessarily have to do that or further the cameras okay Mick go ahead
it was not really hard to make that's not boring president mr. president a lot
of folks around this table have worked a long time almost since you took over to
show you what to get you where you are today at this meeting I call this the
drain the swamp cabinet meeting I know we talked about that during the campaign
you've talked about it since you've been here today is we were introducing the
actual actions that follow up on those words to show people what we meant when
we said drain the swamp later on after the press leaves you'll hear from Andrew
Brent Berg and mr. McMahon and I think the target on the executive order
dealing with civil service reform what I want to talk about is the government
reorganization very very briefly when we got into this one of the things we
learned was that it's been almost a hundred years since anybody really
reorganized the government at this type of scale it's been since FDR and his new
deal to where he changed the way the government work and we haven't changed
it very much since then which means we're almost 20% into the 21st century
but we're still dealing with a government that is from the early 20th
century this leads mr. president to some bizarre
results in fact the stories you don't know where to start right now because of
the Byzantine nature of the way that we regulate in this in this in this country
if you have a cheese pizza you make a cheese pizza that is governed by the
United States Department of Agriculture no the other way around I always get
these backwards if you make a cheese pizza it's governed by the Food and Drug
Administration if you put a pepperoni on it that's governed by the USDA if you
have a chicken it's governed by the USDA if that chicken lays an egg it's covered
by the FDA but if you break the egg and make an omelet
that is now by the USDA if you have an open-faced
roast beef sandwich that's one or the other but you put put the bread on top
of it it's the other one a hot dog the hot dog meat is governed
by one you put it in a bun it's governed by another one of my favorites if you
have any saltwater fish you have a salmon and it's in the ocean it's
governed by the Department of Commerce once it swims upriver it's governed by
the Department of Interior and to get there it has to go up a fish ladder
governed by the US Army Corps of Engineers this is stupid
this is just this makes no sense a long time ago when I was 15 years old I
worked in a freezer for a guy that made frozen pizzas right put yourself in that
guy's business and one day he's making cheese pizzas and then the afternoon
he's gonna make pepperoni he's got an entirely different federal agency to
deal with an entirely different process it's not done it just simply doesn't
make sense so we're gonna try and fix it I want to go through a couple of
examples today I got to sort of step aside to go over just one or two a
couple of them that made the press we talked about this later about the
Department of Education and the Department of Labor being merged we
think that makes tremendous sense because what are they both doing they're
doing the same thing they're trying to get people ready for the workforce
sometimes that's education sometimes it's vocational training some
but we're all doing the same thing so why not put them in the same place this
goes back to the work that I think Ivanka did very early on on job training
when we learned that we had in fact we don't even know how many jobs training
programs we have some people think there's 40 some of the others 46 some of
you think is 47 we get it down to 16 and we put it all in one place so that if
you're not happy or the next president is not happy with the way it's going you
don't have right now 16 different people around this table have workforce
training programs in their agencies if something is going wrong you're gonna
come to me and say Nick why aren't you doing around with oh no no that's that's
got through its falta that's that's Betsy DeVos this fall when everybody's
in charge nobody's in charge and we're solving
that by putting ed and labor together and making them responsible and them
you know two things want to talk about to my favorites and examples of how we
think we can improve things everybody Democrats Republicans local
governments state government you me from the private sector have horror stories
about the US Army Corps of Engineers they perform some absolutely critical
functions mr. president there's no doubt about it but over the course of the last
century their role has continued to creep and
creep and creep and we can do better so the proposal today you'll see make some
important changes to the Army Corps of Engineers the thing that has written
stuff there's really defense and there is there's still things that a Army
Corps does that is defense they stay there and they should the things the
Army Corps does it actually help defend the nation will stay where they belong
we'll just ask the Department of Defense but we did with the environment a lot of
what they do deals with the environment they deal with environmental mitigation
and so forth that goes over the Department of the Interior because
you're all really good at that similarly ports deepwater ports our lock system
that's that's not it used to be a military thing a hundred years ago now
it's Elaine Chao at Department of Transportation because it's a
transportation I mean if we think it's a much more efficient layout and it ties
in with what you talked about how about a streamline our permitting process and
goes along with what mr. Xing Keys doing at the DOI to try and centralize so
there's one point of contact you want to get a permit you go to one federal
agency this is going to help that down here we've talked a little bit about
that that one of food safety then right now it's an FDA USDA a couple in places
we've move all that into the USDA why because they're really good at it it's
not to say the FDA isn't but wouldn't it be nice to have one place where people
can go to to get answers to get results to get from them all right
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