Transcript - Remarks: Donald Trump Meets With House and Senate Leaders - June 6, 2017 | Factba.se

Donald Trump

00:00:00 - 00:00:25 (25 sec)

What a great team this is. What an unbelievable team. We'll know soon. We have a great team, and it's wonderful to be here this afternoon with the Republican leadership, House and Senate, including Speaker Ryan, Leader McConnell, Leader McCarthy, Senator Cornyn, Representative Scalise, thank you all for being here. I greatly appreciate it.

Donald Trump

00:00:25 - 00:00:58 (33 sec)

In just a short time the election, since the election, we have achieved truly incredible gains for the American people. We've already added more than 1 million new jobs, and it's going up very fast -- you see the new reports coming out -- going up very, very fast -- and approved a historic increase in military spending We have increased the stock market values and values of corporations on the public markets by $3.4 trillion since November 8th.

Donald Trump

00:00:58 - 00:01:35 (37 sec)

I've signed 36 bills into law, and repealed one job-crushing regulation after another. In fact, the House and Senate have set a record number of resolutions that eliminate regulations to my desk for signature, saving our economy many billions of dollars annually, and in fact based on the numbers we just got, the actual number is approximately $18 billion dollars we've saved annually, with all of the bills that I've signed. So that's a great job, great job. [inaudible]

Donald Trump

00:01:35 - 00:02:16 (41 sec)

Together, we'll fight for promised measures on the border, and we have fought very successfully. We have tough policies to keep deadly drugs and the vicious gangs out of the country. MS-13 is being taken care of at a ver, very rapid clip by General -- now Secretary Kelly -- he's done an incredible job, really incredible job -- and went down, reduction on people pouring through our border down 78% as of now. 78%. It used to be if you got down 1%, it was a good job. We're down 78%, that's before we have the wall. The wall will be a great help, and that will happen, believe me.

Donald Trump

00:02:16 - 00:02:43 (27 sec)

My administration is also working with Congress to rebuild our infrastructure. We'll be discussing that at great, in great depth next week with Gary Cohn and with Steve Mnuchin and with Mike Pence and everybody else working on it, and to pass a massive tax cut, which will be the biggest tax cut in our country's history, if it's passed the way we would like to have it passed. It'll be the biggest tax cut in our country's history, and it will spur business like never before.

Donald Trump

00:02:43 - 00:03:30 (47 sec)

At the core of this agenda is repealing and replacing the disaster known as Obamacare. Average Obamacare premiums have more than doubled from 2013 to 2017, including an increase of 203% in Alaska. Wow, that's a new one. I always use Arizona at 116. [Crosstalk] Now we're at 203, that's pretty big. 123 in Louisiana, these are the new numbers folks, so I think after a year of talking about 116 percent in Arizona, you'll be -- you'll be happy to hear we have some new numbers. And 176% in North Carolina, a great state.

Donald Trump

00:03:30 - 00:04:06 (36 sec)

Insurance carriers are fleeing, and leaving many Americans with only one insurer, or even no insurers to choose from, and that's been happening in numerous states, and just this afternoon we learned the last statewide insurer in the great state of Ohio is leaving. So they don't have any insurers. That means another 20 counties in the state of Ohio will have no health care plan if Congress doesn't act to save Americans from this Democrat-inflicted catastrophe.

Donald Trump

00:04:06 - 00:04:45 (39 sec)

Next year is only going to get worse -- gonna get a lot worse although I don't know how it can get worse than 203%, but I'm sure the Democrats will find a way. Almost every major insurer has already pulled out for 2018. The house took an important first step to rescue Americans from this calamity when Paul -- you and your group, and Steve and everybody -- passed the American Health Care Act. And that was a very, very long and difficult negotiation. But it really gives a great print, and a great concept to Mitch.

Donald Trump

00:04:45 - 00:05:09 (24 sec)

And now the Senate I'm sure will follow suit and get a bill across the finish line this summer that will be great health care for Americans, and I'm looking forward to seeing -- it so looking forward to seeing it. So we're working very hard on massive tax cuts, and we're working very, very hard on the health care, and I think we're gonna have some very pleasant surprises for a lot of people.

Donald Trump

00:05:09 - 00:05:40 (31 sec)

So I'd like to thank the leadership for being with us. Mike Pence, you've been great. I appreciate you being here. Steve great, I appreciate everything. Jared -- Jared's actually become much more famous than me -- I'm a little upset about that. [Laughter] So, I want to thank everybody very much for being here, and let's get to work. We're going to get to work and get it done. Thank you all very much. Thank you. [Reporter shouts question about James Comey's testimony] I wish him luck. Thank you everybody.