In mr. Ryan members of congress, i have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the president of United States. [applause] President Trump mr. Speaker, mr. Vice president , members of congress, first lady of the United States, and my fellow americans, less than one year has passed since i first stood at this podium in this majestic chamber to speak on behalf of the American People and to address their concerns, their hopes and their dreams. That night, our new administration had already taken very swift action. A new tide of optimism was already sweeping across our land. Each day since, we have gone timism was already sweeping across our land. Have goneince, we forward with a clear vision and a righteous mission, to make America Great again for all americans. [applause] pres. Trump over the last year, we have made incredible progress and achieved extraordinary success. We have faced challenges we expected and others we could have never imagined. We have shared in the heights of victory and the pains of hardship. We have endured floods and fires and storms. But through it all, we have seen the beauty of americas soul and spine. El in americas each test forged new american heroes to remind us who we are, and show us what we can be. We saw the volunteers of the cajun navy racing to the rescue with their fishing boats to save people in the aftermath of a totally devastating hurricane. We saw strangers shielding strangers from a hail of gunfire on the las vegas strip. We heard tales of americans, like coast guard petty officer ashlee leppert, who is here tonight in the gallery, with melania. [applause] pres. Trump ashlee was aboard one of the first helicopters in the scene used for hurricane harvey. 18 hours of wind and rain, ashlee braved powerlines downed power lines and deepwater to save 40 lives. Ashlee, we all thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] pres. Trump we heard about americans like Firefighter David dahlberg. He is here with us also. Flamefaced down walls of to rescue almost 60 children trapped in a california summer camp, threatened by those devastating wildfires. To everyone still recovering in texas, florida, louisiana, puerto rico and the virgin islands, everywhere, we are with you, we love you, and we always will pull through together, always. [applause] pres. Trump thank you to david and the brave people of california. Thank you very much, david. Great job. Some trials over the past year touched this chamber very personally. With us tonight is one of the toughest people ever to serve in this house, a guy who took a bullet, almost died, and was back to work three and a half months later. The legend from louisiana, scalise. An steve i think they like you, steve. We are incredibly grateful for the heroic efforts of the Capitol Police officers, the alexandria police, and the doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved his life and the lives of many others read some in this some inof many others, this room. [applause] pres. Trump in the aftermath of that terrible shooting we came together, not as republicans or democrats, but as representatives of the people. But it is not enough to come together only in times of tragedy. Tonight, i call on all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground, and to summon the unity we need to deliver for the people. This is really the key. These are the people we are elected to serve. [applause] pres. Trump over the last year, the world has seen what we always know. That no people on earth are so fearless or daring or determined as americans. If there is a mountain, we climate. If there is a frontier, we cross it. If there is a challenge, we tame it. If there is an opportunity, we seize it. Lets begin tonight by recognizing that the state of our union is strong, because our people are strong. [applause] pres. Trump and together we are building a safe, strong and proud america. Since the election, we have ,reated 2. 4 million new jobs including [applause] including 200,000 new jobs in manufacturing alone. Tremendous. [applause] after years and years of wages stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages. [applause] pres. Trump unemployment claims have hit a 45 year low. [applause] and something i am very proud of, africanamerican unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded. [applause] pres. Trump and hispanic american unemployment has also reached the lowest levels in history. [applause] pres. Trump Small Business confidence is at an alltime high. The stock market has smashed one gaining aer another, trillion dollars and more in a value in just this short period of time. [applause] the great news for 401k, retirement, pension and College Savings accounts have gone through the roof. And just as i promised the American People from this podium 11 months ago, we enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in american history. [applause] pres. Trump our massive tax cuts provide tremendous relief for the middle class and Small Businesses, to lower tax rates for hardworking americans. We nearly doubled the standard deduction for everyone. [applause] now, the first 24,000 earned by a married couple is completely taxfree. [applause] pres. Trump we also doubled the child tax credit. [applause] a typical family of four making 75,000 will see their tax bill reduced by 2000, slashing their tax bill in half. [applause] pres. Trump in april, this will be the last time you will ever file under the old and very broken system. And millions of americans will have more takehome pay, starting next month. A lot more. [applause] pres. Trump we eliminated and especially an cruel tax fl on americans making less than 50,000 a year, forcing them to pay tremendous penalties, simply because they could not afford governmentordered health plans. We repealed the core of the disastrous obamacare, the individual mandate is now gone. Thank you. [applause] pres. Trump we slashed the business tax rate from 35 , all the way down to 20 21 . So American Companies can compete against anyone, anywhere else in the world. [applause] these changes alone are estimated to increase average Family Income by more than 4000, a lot of money. [applause] Small Businesses have also received a massive tax cut, and can now deduct 20 of their business income. Here tonight are steve staub and Sandy Keplinger of staub manufacturing, a small, beautiful business in ohio. They have just finished their best year in their 20 year history. [applause] pres. Trump because of tax reform, they are handing out raises, hiring an additional 14 people, and expanding into the bid into the building next door. [applause] pres. Trump one of staubs employees, corey adams, is also with us tonight. Corey is an allamerican worker. He supported himself through high school, lost his job during the 2008 recession, and was later hired by staub, where he trained to become a welder. Like many hardworking americans, cori plans to invest his tax cut rays into his new home, and his two daughters education. Corey, please stand. [applause] and he is a great welder. I was told by the man that owns that company that does that so well. Congratulations, corey. Cuts, overssed tax 300 million workers have gotten tax cut bonuses. Many of them, thousands and thousands of dollars. It is getting more every month, every week. Apple has Just Announced it plans to invest a total of 350 billion in america, and hire an additional 20,000 workers. [applause] pres. Trump just a little while ago, exxon mobil announced a 50 billion investment in the United States, just a little while ago. [applause] this, in fact, is our new american moment. There has never been a better time to start living the american dream. So, to every citizen watching at home tonight, no matter where you have been or where you have come from, this is your time. If you work hard, if you believe in yourself, if you believe in you can dream anything, be anything. And together, we can achieve absolutely anything. [applause] pres. Trump tonight, i want to talk about what kind of future we are going to have, and what kind of a nation we are going to be. As oneus, together, team, one people, and one american family, can do anything. We all share the same home, the same heart, the same destiny, and the same Great American flag. [applause] pres. Trump together, we are rediscovering the american way. We know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of american life. [applause] is, inrump the motto god we trust. [applause] pres. Trump and we celebrate our beliefs, our police, our military, and veterans as heroes who deserve our total and unwavering support. [applause] pres. Trump here tonight is preston sharp, a 12 euro boy 12yearold boy from redding, california, who noticed veterans graves were not decorated with flags on veterans day. He decided to change that and has started a movement which has now placed 40,000 flags at the graves of our great heroes. Preston, a job well done. [applause] pres. Trump young patriots like preston teach all of us about our civic duty as americans. I met preston a little while ago and he is something very special, that i can tell you. Great future. Thank you, preston. Thank you, very much. Prestons reverence for those who have served our nation remind us why we salute our flag, why we put our hands on our hearts for the pledge of allegiance, and why we proudly stand for the national anthem. [applause] pres. Trump americans love their country, and they deserve a government that shows them the same love and loyalty in return. We havelast year, thought to restore the bonds of trust between our citizens and their government. Working with the senate, we are appointing judges who will interpret the constitution as written, including a great new Supreme Court justice, and more Circuit Court judges, than any new administration in the history of our country. [applause] pres. Trump we are totally defending our second amendment, and have taken historic actions to protect religious liberty. [applause] pres. Trump and we are serving our brave of veterans, including giving our veterans choice in their health care decisions. [applause] pres. Trump last year, Congress Also passed, and i signed, the landmark the a accountability act. V. A. Accountability [applause] pres. Trump since its passage, and my administration has already moved more than 1500 v. A. Employees who fail to give our veterans the care they deserve. And we are hiring people who love our vets as much as we do. [applause] pres. Trump and i will not stop until our veterans are properly taken care of. Which has been my promise to them from the very beginning of this great journey. [applause] all americans deserve accountability and respect. And that is what we are giving to our wonderful heroes, our veterans. Thank you. [applause] so tonight i call on congress to empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust, or fail the American People. [applause] pres. Trump in our drive to make washington accountable, we have eliminated more regulations in our first year than any administration in the history of our country. [applause] the. Trump we have ended war on american energy. And we have ended the war on beautiful, clean coal. [applause] pres. Trump we are now very proudly and exporter of energy to the world. [applause] in detroit, i halted government mandates that crippled americans great workers, so we can get motor. Ity revving its engines again and that is what is happening. [applause] pres. Trump many Car Companies are now building and expanding plans in the United States, something we have not seen in decades. Chrysler is moving a major plant from mexico to michigan. Are opening upa a plant in alabama, a big one. And we have not seen this in a long time. It is all coming back. [applause] pres. Trump very soon, auto plants and other plants will be opening up all over our country. Americans arews totally unaccustomed to hearing. For many years, companies and jobs were only leaving us. Back,w, they are roaring they are coming back, they want to be where the action is. They want to be in the United States of america. That is where they want to go. [applause] pres. Trump exciting progress is happening every single day. To speed access to breakthroughs, cures, and affordable generic drugs, last new, the fda approved more and generic drugs and medical devices than ever before in our countrys history. [applause] pres. Trump we also believe that patients with terminal conditions, terminal illnesses, should have access to experimental treatment immediately that could essentially save their lives. People who are terminally ill should not have to go from country to country to seek a cure. I want to give them a chance right here at home. It is time for congress to give these wonderful, incredible americans the right to try. [applause] pres. Trump one of my greatest priorities is to reduce the price of prescription drugs. [applause] pres. Trump in many other countries, these drugs cost far less than what we pay in the United States. And it is very, very unfair. That is why i directed my administration to make fixing the injustice of high drug prices one of my Top Priorities for the year. [applause] pres. Trump and prices will come down substantially. Watch. Finally turnedo a page on decades of unfair trade deals that sacrificed our prosperity and shipped away our companies, our jobs, and or wealth and our wealth. Our nation has lost its wealth, but we are getting it back so fast. The era of economic surrender is over. From now one, we expect trading relationships to be fair. And very importantly, reciprocal. [applause] pres. Trump we will work to fix bad trade deals and negotiate new ones. And they will be good ones. But they will be fair. And we will protect American Workers and American Intellectual property, through strong enforcement of our trade rules. [applause] as we rebuild our industries, it is also time to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. [applause] pres. Trump america is a nation of builders. We built the Empire State Building in just one year. Isnt it a disgrace that it can now take 10 years just to get a minor permit approved for the building of a simple road . [applause] i am asking both parties to come together to give us safe, fast, reliable and modern infrastructure that our economy needs and our people deserve. [applause] pres. Trump tonight, i am calling on congress to produce a bill that generates at least 1. 5 trillion for the new Infrastructure Investment that our country so desperately needs. Every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments, and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector investment, to permanently fix the infrastructure deficit. And we can do. Do it. Can di it [applause] bill must alsoy streamline the permitting process, getting it down to no and than two years, perhaps, even one. Together, we can reclaim our great building heritage. [applause] we will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways and waterways all across our land. And we will do it with american heart, american hands, and american grit. [applause] pres. Trump we want every american to know the dignity of a hard days work. We want every child to be safe in their home and night. And we want every citizen to be proud of this land that we all love so much. Fromn lift our Citizens Welfare to work, from dependence to independence, and from poverty to prosperity. [applause] pres. Trump as tax cuts create new jobs, lets invest in workforce development, and lets invest in job training, which we need so badly. [applause] pres. Trump lets open great vocational schools, so our future workers can learn a craft and realize their full potential. [applause] and lets support working families by supporting paid family leave. [applause] pres. Trump as america regains its strength, opportunity must be extended to all citizens. That is why this year we will embark on reforming our prisons, to help former inmates who have served their time get a Second Chance at life. [applause] pres. Trump struggling communities, especially immigrant communities, will also be helped by immigration policies that focus on the best interests of American Workers and american families. For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities. They have allowed millions of lowwage workers to compete for jobs and wages against of the poorest americans. They havecally, caused the loss of many innocent lives. Here tonight are two fathers and evelyn rodriguez, freddy cuevas, elizabeth alvarado, and robert mickens. Their two teenage daughters, kayla cuevas and nisa mickens, were Close Friends on rhode island. But in december, 2016, on the 16th birthday, such a happy time it should have been, neither of them came home. These two precious girls were murdered brutally murdered while walking together in their hometown. Six members of the savage ms13 gang have been charged with murders. Nisas many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes and our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors. Nisasnd up in kayla and high school. Freddy, elizabeth, and robert. Everyone stands, we are grieving with you. Thank you very much. [applause] pres. Trump i want you to know that 320 million parts are right million hearts are right now breaking for you. [applause] pres. Trump we cannot imagine the depths of that kind of sorrow. Familieske sure other do not have to endure this kind of pain. Tonight i am calling on congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed ms13 and other criminal gangs to break into our country. We have proposed new legislation that will fix our immigration i. C. E. Andpport our Border Patrol agents. These are great people, these are great, great people who work so hard in the midst of such danger, so that this can never happen again. [applause] pres. Trump the United States is a compassionate nation. We are proud that we do more than any other country, anywhere in the world, to help the needy, the struggling, and the underprivileged, all over the world. But as president of the United States, my highest loyalty, my greatest compassion, my constant concern, is for americas children, americas struggling workers, and americas forgotten communities. I want our youth to grow up to achieve great things. To have theirr chance to rise. So tonight, i am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties, democrats and republicans, to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion and creed. [applause] pres. Trump my duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the american dream. Because americans are dreamers, too. [applause] pres. Trump here tonight is one leader in the effort to defend our country, Homeland Security investigation special