[inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. [applause] i love the state of ohio. What great memories. We are starting to build, you know that, its great to be back in ohio. And to be here with the hardworking men and women of the shepherd corporation. Congratulations. [applause] we have a lot of great people with us today. We have our secretary of the treasury, stephen. [applause] a man that you know very well and has done an amazing job a great job in helping us with the massive tax cuts that are helping everybody so much. Everyone is fallen in love with it. Rob portman knows his stuff. Thank you. [applause] a terrific guy, friend of mine from day one. Hes been behind me from day one, jim thank you. Jim has been a great friend of mine. Lieutenant governor mary taylor, secretary of state. [applause] another great friend of ours, brad cannot be here, his army reserve duty. Thats okay right, thats only excuse we would accept. Great guy. I want to thank you all and thank jeff nourse and all of the people at Shaffer Corporation for hosting us at this incredible facility. We just toured it. I love workers. You have them both. But its really a wonderful place. Im here in the beautiful cincinnati. I worked here for a long time. Most people dont know. Swift and village, long time ago. I came here long time ago and had a Great Success with my father. If i didnt have a success maybe i would have gone and done something else. Who knows. I spent a lot of time in the state and in cincinnati. I love it. What i really want to do is come here and give Something Big back. Thats tax cuts. Your paychecks are going way up. [applause] your taxes are going way down. And right now for the first time in a long time, and you have seen it, factories are coming back, everything is coming back. They want to be where the action is. America is once again open for business. We have already created nearly 2. 6 million jobs since the election including more than 200,000 new jobs in manufacturing. We love manufacturing, those are real jobs that the other kind where they talk theres nothing there. Were bringing back those for magnificent words, made in the usa. [applause] we will count usa is one word. Unemployment claims have hit a 45 year low. Think of that. Something that i have been talking about for two years, campaigning and everybody said you will not do it, after years of wage stagnation wages are the first time in many years rising. More companies are pursuing pay increases right now than at any time in the last long period of time. Actually say in the 21st century. Its amazing what people with some good ideas can do. Its amazing what weve done together. Its been an incredible journey. We tell you see gdp over the next year to billions and billions of dollars are being put back into the United States at the center of the resurgence are massive tax cuts that we just passed before christmas. I said will be sang christmas again and that i was going to give you a Christmas Present. I dont know if you remember, is going to sign it around januar january 5. Then i heard one of the groups on television he promised a Christmas Present at the Tremendous Energy potential everything is in obama care that weaves the repeal of obama care to give them a great Christmas Present so i said move the bill up a few days so we have to sign and we cited just before christmas. Otherwise id be hearing he did not fulfill his Campaign Obligations another cant say. Its just one more thing we check out the list. But it is the biggest tax cut and reform in american history. At the heart of our fate plan is relief for working families and small businesses. A typical family of four earning 75000 will see an income tax cut for more than 2000 a year. Your cnet their income tax bill in half. We nearly doubled the standard deduction. Meaning the first 24000 earned by a married couple will be 100 tax free. Not bad may have doubled the child tax credit. That was compliments of ivanka trump. Pretty amazing. But, we got it done. And by the way, we had no democrats nobody, not one, including your other senator voted against it. I dont care, they voted against it. There were got in and took over your taxes would go way up and you would see bad things happening. It wouldnt be good, that i can tell you. When i signed the tax cut six weeks ago set off a tidal wave of good news that continues to grow every single day to sunamerica. When iron and they said 350 million. I said to him, is not complete until you Start Building plants in our great states. Otherwise if you build them where youre building them, im not interested. And believe me the reason it happened is because of what we did. I heard 350 and i figured it was 350 million, thats a big plan. 350 is big even for your great company. So then they came to me and said its not 350 million, its 350 billion. [applause] thats a big number. I wouldve been happy with the 350 million but i like this slightly better theyre going to hire 20000 people and build the tremendous campus. Mobile Just Announced a fantastic 50 billiondollar investment. If you look at the exxon mobil thats fantastic. Chrysler announced 2500 jobs are coming back. And theyre coming from mexico. Nothing against mexico, we are renegotiating nafta, can tell you that. Ive been telling you that for a long time either you renegotiate are your terminate the chrysler leaving mexico coming back to motor city with a massive plant you havent heard that and how many years 30 or 25 reversing it. And a lot of theyre coming back here to ohio right here in this beautiful factory for the shepherd corporation announced that every worker was getting a 1000 tax cut bonus, youre so generous, thank you. Congratulations everybody. Hardworking patriotic americans like you are what make this country run, and run like no other. But we took away all that pride and incentive and were losing so many of our companies and jobs and how long have i been talking about this . Twenty years. Some of you have heard me say this is a private business person. Were losing our jobs our companies, theyre coming back. Its your pride and determination to do the job right. The foundation of american strength when the key to americas future. The you can work hard but if you dont have the right leader setting the tone, im not even saying im non braggadocio but we tell you see whats happening over the next two or three months. With what were doing to countries in many cases socalled friendly countrys, i dont call them friendly. But its all changing and those companies are coming back and the jobs are coming back. So, you are among more than 3 million americans who have received a tax cut bonus because of the tax cuts we just signed into law. Everywhere i go i love to hear what people plan to do with the money. So i thought we could take a few minutes to hear from some of your coworkers. You no one talking about. I assume you like these people. Tyler brookshire, do you know him . He joined shepherd corporation through an apprenticeship. Six years ago and now he is a machinist and a talented one they like him. [applause] its nice to be loved. I figured theyd only send popular ones appear. The unpopular ones you dont have to worry about. In addition to his 1000 bonuses paychecks are bigger because hes paying less taxes. Tyler, your appear im going to give you a chance like 30 seconds or less to explain what you will do with the extra money. In this case over thousand dollars. [applause] thank you mr. President and with the tax cut the bonus i will be joined to save up money to start a family and eventually get a bigger house. I like that idea. [applause] and i appreciate the hard work that even put in. So just want to say thank you. [applause] thats a good guy right there. I think it will be very supportive of you. I think everybody will be supported. We need people who will do a great job and keep us in the right direction. We need them badly to it all goes back to where it was, and worse. But did we catch them in the act, or what . Theyre very embarrassed. They never thought they were going to get caught, we caught them. We caught him, so much fun. Like the great sleuth. Dean is also with us. She joins shepherd in 2012 as a Customer Service representative and has climbed her way up to become a manager. She is looking at a tax cut the 1500 and thats on top of her 1000 check thats already given us. Thats 2500 plus. What are you going to do with that money . Amassed me what it would mean to my family, it it means the same as it means all hardworking families are reaping the benefits of your tax cuts. Means we have more money in the bank, more money to make ends meet. Personally for my family when the process of buying a home about my kids will be going to college this fall. That money will be like a bonus but it would be an ongoing bonus in a paycheck every week. It will help us make ends meet. Thank you. [applause] beautiful. Im glad shes not running against you jim. Thats very good. Thank you very much. Shes doing a great job. Mike tyler and millions of workers are thrilled to have more money to save for their childrens college or to fix their home or put aside money for a rainy day. Believe it or not, nancy pelosi and those in Congress Want to raise your taxes. They dont want to give the money to the military, where we need it. Without the military we might not be here or we might not be here for long. Nancy pelosi, what shes doing to this country, and she is gone so far left and schumer has gone so far left, oh, i look forward to running against them. We have to do well in 18 and i know were going to do great in 20. I think were going to do well and 18. [applause] i think were going to go very well. They have gone left. They want to raise your taxes. You know, i figure were say. Historically when you win the presidency, for whatever reason it is and i think i figured it out. The party wins the presidency and other people are happy and you see tax cuts. Jobs are coming back. The people that voted are complacent and its only two years between 16 and 20 in such a short time. So the people are happy and they dont get out and vote like they should. Maybe they go to a movie. None of your going to a movie i hope. They sort of taken for granted, they sit back and then they get clobbered because of the people are desperate and they get out have more energy. Because of what weve done in the success weve had i have a feeling were going to do well in 18. History is [inaudible] our side. Its not be because of that word. In the midterms we have to get out there or theyre going to take it. Nancy plus and Chuck Schumer want to raise your taxes, they didnt want to give the money to the military which we have to. I military because of obama and even beyond obama, its depleted. Its in bad shape. There were gonna build a stronger than it was before. We have already started. So thats what happens. Thats what happens in the terms but we wont let it happen to us. Traditionally thats what goes on. I know i like that man. Thank you. Were going to be in there fighting. We dont want that tradition to go, want tremendous success. We have to have tremendous success what happens is that if you did badly in 18 now youre all angry again and now 20 comes along. But we want to do great and 18. Will do really well in 20. Thats why keep this great journey going. So start thinking about 18 and start filling out the little slot in addition to the bonuses created by a taxcut economists estimate our business tax cut will raise the income of a typical family by the average of 4000. [applause]. When i first heard the word deplorable, i said it was a bad thing but i had no idea it was not going to be good for our opponent. It was not good. About two days after she said it i went to a rally and everyone is wearing shirts, i am a deplorable. We are all deplorable. I said whats going on. You know we had that. It just went pretty well. It was not a good day for her and i think this is not a good day for nancy pelosi. She is our secret weapon. She is, i just hope they dont change her. There are a lot of people who want to run around, im supposed to make a deal with her. But the other day, did anyone happen to see the state of the union address. [applause] okay. So i get good marks. I said we have the lowest black unemployment in the history of our country. It was like, it was a game for they play game. They were told dont even make a facial movement. Im talking about you have the lowest hispanic unemployment in the history of our country. This, this is the charts, the polls, we have the lowest in the history of our country. Dead silence, not a smile in fact when i said the lowest africanamerican unemployment he was sort of clapping, who was that guy. And he was a reverend. I wouldnt say it was exactly arousing, but he was putting his hands together. I want to find out who he is. I will send a letter of thank you. He was probably severely reprimanded, dont you think. Cousins he was the only one so that means they would rather see trump too badly then our country do well. Its very selfish. It got to the point where i really didnt even want to look too much during the speech over to that side because it was bad energy. As bad energy. Youre up there and you have half the room going totally crazy wild and they want to do something great for our country and you have the other side even on positive news like that, they were like death. Unamerican. Someone said treasonous. I guess, why not. Can we call that treason . Why not. They certainly didnt seem to love our country very much, but you look at that and its very sad. We have to keep going because this country is turning much faster. I said im going to do it, but its happening faster than i thought. A big part is that the Companies Kicked in. Nobody saw that. At t came in, another came in, comcast, so Many Companies kicked in. Hundreds for now will be thousands of companies but this company, a little smaller than at t but will take it. For the people in the zuma, its much more important. But great countries like this, thats honestly, we said come february 1, nobody will be it because youre going to get your check and your gonna see you have more money because theyre taking a lot less taxes out of your check. I just dont think anybody can beat it. Senator brown voted against us and for us like crazy. Just from over that. He voted against you. Not good. Not good. Weve gone from being one of the highest tax countries anywhere in the world to be one of the most competitive because when our workers have a level playing field, which they didnt have, they can compete and win against anyone in the world and that goes for our companies. We were forcing our companies out. If they dont want to come in, thats okay but they wont be so happy. We are saluting one Great American flag and everybody stood up yesterday. There was nobody kneeling at the beginning of the super bowl. Weve made a lot of improvements, have only. Thats of big improvement. [applause] on top of that a lot of good things happen but there was no kneeling for that super bowl. Today we are thrilled to be joined that just how true all of the things are. We have median the back, those cameras are rolling, thats whats good about doing it live. They cant cut you. When you do a tape it ends up and says what happened to the four stanzas they cut out. Where are those four sentences. A lot of fake news, but thats okay. Theyre doing their thing. Whatever. I dont know what the thinking but theyre doing their thing. I want to start with the man i watched on fox and he was terrific, jeff noris. Come on up. We know every employee has already received a 1000 bonus and theyve gotten a lot of lower tax and theyre doing a lot better. Jeff, tell us more about your plans for the future of the company and also what you have in mind for the money that you save on taxes. First of all, welcome and its such a blessing to have you here. In all my years, you pray for a president like this that will take care of the working class and businesses and we finally have one here ill talk about my stuff in a little bit. We need to make sure we support president trump, especially in 2018. [applause] we need to vote out people that are an obstacle to him and manufacturing our job is to remove obstacles, this man can remove obstacles and we need to clear the path for him. [applause] we plan to do with the tax savings is to invest in our people, our process, our equipment and continue to try to make America Great again and, like you said, we have the greatest workforce in the world. We just need a level playing field, just a little closer. He doesnt have to be there, just a little closer because our people can do it. Im just proud to have you as our president and i wish you the best and god bless you. Thank you. , thank you for doing such a great job. Thank you. Usa. Usa. Usa. Usa. Thats what its all about. Greg carmichael is the ceo of a big bank headquartered right here in cincinnati. Greg, please step up, tell us what youre doing with respect to all of those incredible workers, you have 14000 of your employees that youre doing something very special for. I would like to hear it. Thank you. Mr. President , thank you for everything you have done for our nation and we thank you for your effort and your leadership in bringing tax reform to america. We are already feeling the effects of the tax benefit and we are working to pass those benefits on to our employees. Immediately upon the announcement of the passing of legislation we announced an investment in our employees that included raising the minimum wage to 15. Hour in providing a 1000 bonus over 13500 valuable employees. We are investing in our employees because of the contribution they make to our bank, to their families and the communities in which they serve. Mr. President , thank you for bringing meaningful tax reform and jumpstarting the u. S. Economy. Its a great tank. Thank you. Thats a lot of employers. 14000, the general manager at juergens incorporator, Manufacturing Company founded by his family 75 years ago. You must be very rich. [laughter] matt, come up and tell us about these massive cuts and how they are benefiting your people, your employees, your workers. Mr. Trump, thank you very much for your leadership on this tax reform. I am honored to be here today representing juergens and the manufacturing community. Juergens was founded in 1914 during world war ii manufacturing airplane seats. Last year was a record year. Thanks to your tax cuts we see continued success in the future. Juergens will use your tax breaks to invest in our greatest asset, our employees. In april, during our annual performance reviews we will double the annual rate increases that we will be providing our employees. [applause] in addition, we are going to be using your tax break to invest in capital for our machine shop and also research and development for our company which will help us to hire more people in the future. So, mr. Trump, your tax cut has three benefits. More money for employees, more equipment for our facility and we will be able to hire more people. Thank you so much for your leadership in tax reform. [applause] great company. Thank you very much. Its a great job youve done. Finally, chris is the ceo of east cycle, and Environmental Services company that recycles and resells smart phones. You recycle smart phones. Think about that one. What about when they smash the phones with a hammer. Can you bring them back to life . Oh what you would find. Can you imagine that, what we would find . Do most people, when they tossed the phone, do they smash them with a hammer . No, not too many. If you could recycle them, im with you all the way. I just saw that. I said boy, this is exciting. It could be the most exciting part. Come on up. I understand you have a big announcement to make. Lets give us the news. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. I am pleased to announce that east cycle paid out our largest bonus in Company History this past friday. One 100 of all of our hourly and salaried employees participated in this Bonus Program of over 350,000. [applause] in addition, due to the greatest tax reform package just passed in u. S. History, we are celebrating with an additional 1000dollar tax reform bonus for all of our 55 employees. [applause] for all of the team members watching right now, thank you for everything that you do. Thank you again mr. President for believing in the American Worker and the american dream. You just made America Great again. Thank you. Thank you. Every job you create makes our country stronger in the future of our country brighter. Jobs are about more than paychecks. They are the cornerstone of the safe and strong and proud america. There is nothing more important than the sense of pride and accomplishment that comes at the end of a hard days work and all of us in this room, we know that feeling, just about every day we know that feeling. Thats why we want every american to know the dignity of work, the pride of a paycheck and the satisfaction of the statement job well done. [applause] creating good jobs is also an important part of fighting the drug epidemic that has affected millions of americans bringing new hope to struggling communities. Its gotten to a point where its never been worse. People form blue ribbon committees, they do everything they can and frankly, i have a different take on it. My take is you have to get really, really tough, really mean with the drug pushers and the drug dealers. We can do all the blueribbon committees we want. We have to get a lot tougher than we are. We have to stop drugs from pouring across our border. We are building the wall. Believe me. Dont even think about it. Somebody said the other day, he really didnt want to build the wall, he was just using that building the wall. The ones who dont want security at the southern border are the democrats. They dont care about the security of our country or ms 13 killers pouring into our country. We bring them out almost as fast as we bring them in but nobody was bringing them out before us. These are killers. Our guys are tougher than them and thats what we need. Sorry. Our democrats ought to get smart and they ought to get tough or the situation is going to get very bad, but we will win. As we speak, our wonderful first lady is visiting cincinnati Childrens Hospital medical center, hearing directly from doctors about their incredible work treating beautiful, precious babies who are born addicted to opioids and how government can help them save lives. And actually, mrs. Portman is with the first lady right now. I hear your wife doesnt incredible job at the hospital so thank you rob, very much. [applause] america will not overcome this epidemic overnight. Just like americans always will, i do think we have to change our ways, and we will, but we will prevail. We will beat it. We will get tough, were going to get angry and were going to win. Our children our being decimated. One drug dealer can kill thousands of people. One drug dealer. If you ever did an average, nobodys ever seen us. If you ever did an average, a drug dealer will kill thousands of people. We dont even come down on these people. Its time to start in that time is now, right now. [applause] we want every american to live a life of meaning and purpose and joy we want every american have a job they love so they can wake up each morning excited to go to work, like all of you. You love thinking about where youre going to put that next beautiful big machine. That will be one of the biggest things, nobody even talks about it, in our taxcut plan. The one year expensing, nobody ever thought they would see this in this country and i think it will have a great incentive. I think will have a tremendous incentive. Or they dont talk about that one, people dont talk about that. Most people dont know what it means, but some of the people in this room do. Its the one you are expensing. You watch. It was a big impact. Thats why our tax bill also creates new opportunities rewarding those who invest in distressed communities and create more jobs for those who have too often simply been left behind. Workers will not only make more money because of our tax cuts but starting this month you will keep that money in your pocket, in your bank or you may want to buy something, but you will keep the money that you arent. You will spend it, the government wont be spending it for you. That is something really nice. Families in the great state of ohio, remember, for two years you heard donald trump has to go through ohio. I said i love ohio. I work here. I lov i live here, it was great. He said donald trump has to go through ohio and, did we ever go through ohio. We went through ohio. And now its much better than election day. You should that to me inside. It was much better than election day and we did well on election day. It was one minute after the polls closed. Donald trump has won the state of ohio. That wasnt too close, right. We are doing better now because now we are producing. Before it was talk. They thought i gave a state of the union last year, but was very good president called the state of the union but it was nevertheless sort of the same thing. They said this years better because last year was aspirational. I said will get this, will get that and weve actually produced much more than i said i would produce. Whens the last time you heard that, with judges, with the Supreme Court justice, with so many Different Things and then of course the tremendous tax cuts and the individual mandate and all of the Different Things weve done and theres so many Different Things so by the way, the big thing that we talks about that you would be talking about, regulations and weve got regular and i actually think, im here to talk about tax cuts but i actually think cutting regulation has more of an impact or as much, we have cut more regulation in one year than any president has cut in for, eight, or in one case, 16 years. More. We have a ways to go. We havent finished. We are probably 47 or 48 of the way there. Some of it is statutory. You can only go so fast. You have to go do this and wait 90 days or hundred 20 days, but all those clocks are ticking. Families in ohio will see a taxcut of more than 8 billion this year. Thats good. And even more good news, major electric and Gas Companies are lowering utility prices that your utility bills because of tax form which is a big win not only for families but a really big win for the manufacturers for places like this, the energy costs are going down. Other countries are going up. You know why hours are going down, right because i believe in a lot of good clean but oldfashioned stuff that really works and really has power behind it. Theres never been a better time to hire an american to invest in america and to start living the american dream. Theres never been a better time. The future of america doesnt belong to the privileged few. It belongs to all of the people, all of the people that i saw for two years now, it belongs to those people, the forgotten man and woman, they worked hard to pay taxes, thats what they did pretty worked they worked they worked , they paid, they paid, they paid and then they were forgotten by the politicians are not forgotten anymore thats what happened on november 8. They were forgotten. Now the democrats are trying to figure, lets see, you know we forgot about those people for about a hundred years, how do we get them back into the fold . It will be so easy for them. You will remember. It belongs to the hardworking men and women who play by the rules, follow our laws and give their best and never ever give up. The fact is the future belongs to you. You are the ones who raised americas great beautiful families, support americas communities and uphold our values, our principles and the american way of life. Workers like you carved the steel into our skyscrapers, and i just got to see a lot of it, great machinist, great mechanics, great people, you build a machine that power our cities and teach the next generation of children what it means to be a proud american. You are the ones who are shaping our destiny. You are the ones who are restoring our prosperity and you are the ones who are making America Great again. We love you ohio, god bless you, i will see you soon. We will be back, jim get in there and fight. We need you. Rob, thank you very much god bless you. Thank you. James mattis testify on the pentagons National Defense strategy and the tenth 2018 Nuclear Posture review. Live coverage tomorrow on cspan three at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Also tomorrow, treasuries secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies before the House Financial Services committee about the annual report from the Financial Stability oversight council. The modest hers the stability of banks and the financial system. We have that hearing at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Cspan washington journal, live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up tuesday morning, Nebraska Republican congressman don bacon discussed the House Intelligence Committee memo in this weeks government funding deadline. Then, connecticut democratic congressman and Intelligence Committee member jim himes on the release of the Committee Memo and the latest on the investigation into russian interference into the 2016 campaign. Be sure to watch cspan washington journal live at seven eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion. Sunday on cspan q a, New York TimesStaff Photographer doug mills talks about the photos he took while covering president trump. Obviously enjoys having us around. I really believe, despite his constant comments about fake news in the media and so forth, i really feel he enjoys having us around because it helps drive his message and drive the news of the day which he can do every day and does every day. He is constantly driving the message and therefore, having us around allows him to do that. Coming up tonight on cspan2, the communicators features the second part of our visit to the annual Consumer Electronics show in las vegas. And 9 00 p. M. , Hillary Clinton speaks on women and human rights. Then historian on free speech and the first amendment. Later steven and christopher on the release of the nunez memo on the rush investigation. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. Its brought you today by your cable or satellite provider. Here some interviews we have done. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible]