in. you can go over chapter and verse and we should be running issue ads. republicans tell you they re for the working person. president trump tells you, but what about this? what about that? what about that? and i get these ads on way before the 18 election. number one. that s your advice to tom perez? my advice to tom perez, but he can t do tay loan, obviously. moneywise. secondly, i talk about what we want to do. for example, infrastructure. i think the republicans are going to punt on infrastructure. and as you know, katy, for every $1 billion of a new spending on infrastructure, it produces 250,000 new well-paying jobs. i would hold their feet to the fire and if they didn t give us an infrastructure bill with good federal government input, i d burn them on it, because that s one of the best ways we can have to raise salaries, increase wages, and to do it for americans who are looking for work. no question about it. and one of the things a lot
great to be here today to reveal legislation that would represent the most significant reform to our immigration system and a half a century. i want to think senators tom cotton and david perdue for their tremendous work in putting together this historic and very vital proposal. as a candidate, i campaigned on creating a merit-based immigration system that protects u.s. workers and taxpayers and that is why we are here today. merit-based. the raise act will reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers aliens and billions of dollars. it would do this by changing the way the united states issues green cards to nationals from other countries. green cards provide permanent residency, work authorization, and fast track to citizenship.
have to be able to afford it. you have to be able to afford insurance. and i don t think that all the people who have been added to the rolls because of obamacare, they certainly some of them couldn t afford it before and now they can. if you want to get into the affording aspect of it, the best thing that we can do in the federal government to ensure that people can afford health care is to do things that will help increase wages. and one of the best things to help increase wages for working americans is to deport the illegal aliens that have flooded the marketplay, suppressing waijs for all americans and those illegal aliens have taken job opportunities from american citizens. roughly 10 million to 15 million job opportunities that have been lost to americans. enforce border secure. go ahead. if you enforce our border security, deport illegal aliens, you also decrease the labor supply which means employers have to pay more to americans to
want the benefit corpses but you have to say how that helps increase wages. how does it? for americans. yeah, how does it? well, it does because if you have more government overregulation, you have companies, wealthy people investing in the economy, you have you re doing to have job creation and you re doing to have people making more money. i mean it hasn t happened. it s happening right now. we have seen the failure of trickle down economics for decades. the fact that people still try to pretend that cutting taxes for the incredibly wealthy. just this week the house republicans passed a repeal of the estate tax, a move that would benefit, what 5,000 of the wealthiest fam iilies in america calling it what it is right now. that s not creating jobs for the vast majority of the workforce. it s the office creating jobs. it s not. we had it during the 1980s. and we did not have the kind of