Since we have gone forward with a clear vision and a righteous mission. To make America Great again for all americans thad thousand over the last year we have made incredible progress and achieved extraordinary success we have faced challenges we expected and others we could never have 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 the steel in americas spine. Each test has 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 ashley leopard who is here tonight in the gallery with millennia thank you. Ashley was aboard one of the first helicopters on the scene and used in during the hurricane harvey. To eighteen hours of wind and rain ashley braved live power lines and deep water to help save more than forty lives actually we all thank you thank you very much thank you thank you we heard about americans like Firefighter David dahlberg. Hes here with us also david faced down walls of flame to rescue almost sixty children trapped at a california summer camp threatened by those devastating wildfires to everyone still recovering in texas florida louisiana puerto rico on the verge of its. Everywhere we are with you we love you and we always will pull through together always thank thank. Thank you to david and the brave people of california thank you very much david h. Ow. Some trials over the past year touched this chamber very personally with us tonight as 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 congressman stan thank god one. Thank god thank you. I think they like used to call where 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 some in this room. And the aftermath yes the a thank. You. 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 upon 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 were elected to serve thanks over the last year the world has seen what we always knew that no people on earth are so fearless or daring or determined as americans if there is a mountain we climb if theres a frontier we cross and if theres a challenge we tame it if theres an opportunity we season. So lets begin tonight by recognizing that the state of our union is strong because our people are strong thank you gether we are building a safe strong and proud american. Since the election we have created two point four million new jobs including thank including two hundred thousand new jobs in manufacturing alone many thanks after years and years of wage stagnation we are finally seeing rising wages thank you know ploy meant claims have hit a forty five year low thanks and something im very proud of africanamerican unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded thanks and hispanic american unemployment has also reached the lowest levels in history thanks all Business Confidence is at an all time high the stock market is smashed one record after another gaining eight trillion dollars and more in value in just this short period of time the great news thank you. News for americans for a one k. Retirement pension and College Savings accounts have gone through the roof and just as i promised the American People from this podium eleven months ago we enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American History one at. That. Thank our massive tax cuts provide tremendous relief for the middle class and Small Business to lower tax rates for hardworking americans we nearly doubled the standard deduction for every one thank you now the first twenty four thousand dollars earned by a married couple is completely tax free thank you also doubled the Child Tax Credit thank you typical family of four making seventy five thousand dollars will see their tax bill reduced by two thousand dollars slashing their tax bill in half thad. 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 take home pay starting next month a lot of new illinois old illinois. Illinois. We eliminated and especially cruel tax that fell mostly on americans making less than fifty thousand dollars a year forcing them to pay tremendous penalties simply because they couldnt afford a government ordered health plan we repealed the core of the disastrous all comic care the individual mandate is now gone a little the old. Thank you we slashed the business tax rate from thirty five percent all the way down to twenty one percent so American Companies can compete and win against anyone else anywhere in the world thanks changes alone are estimated to increase average Family Income by more than four thousand dollars a lot of money thank you all businesses have also received a massive tax cut and can now deduct twenty percent of their business income here tonight are steve stoute and sandy kepler of stab manufacturing a small beautiful business in ohio theyve just finished the best year in their twenty year history thank you because of tax reform they are handing out raises hiring an additional fourteen people and expanding into the building next door the good feeling thank you one of stabs employees corey adams is also with us tonight corey is an all american worker. He supported himself through high School Losses during the two thousand and eight recession and was later hired by staff where he trained to become a welder like many hardworking americans corey plans to invest his tax cut raise into his new home and his two daughters education corey please stand and thank you. Thank you. And hes a great welder. I was told that by the man that owns that company thats doing so well so congratulations corey. Since we passed tax cuts roughly three million workers have already gotten tax cut bonuses many of them thousands and thousands of dollars per worker and its getting more every month every week apple has Just Announced it plans to invest a total of three hundred and fifty billion dollars in america and hire another twenty thousand workers thad at the a. And just a little while ago exxon mobil announced a fifty billion dollars investment in the United States just a little less at. 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 youve been or where youve come from this is your time if you work hard if you believe in yourself if you believe in america then you can dream anything you can be anything. And together we can achieve absolutely anything thad. That. Tonight i want to talk about what kind of future were going to have and what kind of a nation were going to be all of us together as one team one people and one American Family can do anything we all share the same home. The same heart the same destination and the same Great American flag thank you. Thank you thank you thank you and together we are rediscovering the american way in america we know that faith and family not government and bureaucracy well the center of American Life the motto thank god we trust god thank you thank you. Thank you. And we celebrate our police our military and our amazing veterans as heroes who deserve our total i know you wavering support the in thank you thank you. Here tonight is preston shop a twelve year old boy from reading california who noticed that veterans graves were not marked with flags on veterans day he decided all by himself to change that and started a movement that has now placed forty thousand flags at the graves. Of our great heroes preston a Job Well Done was. The only thank you. Thank. You young patriots like preston teach all of us about our civic duty as americans and i met peston a little while ago and he has something very special that i can tell you great teacher thank you very much for all youve done preston thank you very much thad brysons reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us of 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 bible all allowed be absurd thad thank. You only one. Thank you americans love their country and they deserve a government that shows them the same love and loyalty in return for the last year we have sought to restore the bonds of trust between our citizens and their government. Working with the senate we are appointing judges who will interpret the. Stick to should as written including a great new Supreme Court justice and more Circuit Court judges than any new administration in the history of our country id thank you we are totally defending our Second Amendment and have taken historic actions to protect religious liberty thank you we are serving our brave veterans including giving our veterans choice in their Health Care Decisions thank you thank you thank you thank you last Year Congress also passed and i signed the landmark v. A. Accountability act thanks since its passage my administration has already removed more than one thousand five hundred v. A. Employees who failed to give our veterans the care they deserve and we are hiring talented people who love our vets as much as we do thank. Thank you no 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 thank you all americans deserve accountability and respect and thats what we are giving to our wonderful heroes our veterans thank you 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 thank you know our drive to make washington accountable we have a limited more regulations in our first year than any administration in the history of our country was thanks we have ended the war on American Energy and we have ended the war on beautiful clean coal. Thank you we are now very proudly an exporter of energy to the world thanks andy troy i halted government mandates that crippled americas great beautiful auto workers so that we can get motor city revving its engines again and thats whats happening thank you many Car Companies are now building and expanding plants in the United States something we havent seen for decades chrysler is moving a major plant from mexico to michigan toyota and mazda are opening up a plant in alabama big one and we havent seen this in a long time so all coming back thank. You very soon auto plants another plants will be opening up all over our country. This is all news americans are totally unaccustomed to here for many Years Companies and jobs were only leaving us but now they are roaring back theyre coming back they want to be where the action is they want to be in the United States of america thats where the mud thank. Exciting progress is happening every single day to speed access to breakthrough cures and affordable generic drugs last year the f. D. A. Approved more new and generic drugs and medical devices then ever before in our countrys history thad. We also believe that patients with terminal conditions terminal illness should have access to experimentally treatment immediately that could potentially 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 its time for congress to give these wonderful incredible americans the right to try to lead thank you. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks thanks one of my greatest priorities is to reduce the price of prescription drugs thank you