who is elected and what actions they take and then we ll be in a position to make a reasoned response to the question. thank you, mr. secretary. that doesn t make me feel too good. they said come back any time. i m glad you re out of questions because i m out of answers. so up on the screens, i know we had a little bit of discussion about this yesterday. this is the landing page for the content of the website that we launched late last night on the president s busy first 100 days. i know that many of you have noted the robust pace that the president has kept during his first 100 days. this is glimpse of the action that he s taking. he s worked with congress to
softwood? yes. and. don t see any retaliatory action on the part of canada? i m not aware of anything that we ve violated so i don t know what they could do that would be a legitimate action. what about a border adjustment tax? well, it would be better to address that question to who will be working on the tax adjustment. i would hope that the growth would over time get to be better than that. president obama s the only president in many, many, many that didn t have at least one year of 3% growth. and with all the initiatives that we re doing, the regulatory
sisi. the president has turned his words into action here at home. for too many years, the hard-working men and women of this country were poorly served and with a government that wasn t working for them but itself in special interests. as the president said during his inaugural speech, those forgotten men and women will not be forgotten by a trump administration. from the moment he took office, the president is putting america back to work by putting the people back into the government. unleashing the american economy by slashing overly burdensme federal regulations, top business leaders and small business owners into the white house to personally hear directly from them about the policies that prevent them from creating and maintaining well-paying jobs. he s reinvigorating our energy sector and helps us become more energy independent. today, he s signing an executive order setting up a task force
immigration laws and hired 10,000 immigration enforcement officers and agents and 5,000 custom and border patrol agents and it s working. illegal alien border crossings have plummeted 61% since january of this year. the world is responding to the leadership that the president is bringing to washington. in all, during his first 100 days, he s made calls with 38 di different leaders. niece meetings and calls have le led to real action. the president was accredited for his tough talk and fair as a candidate and now as a president for helping to put pressure on the countries that are not contributing their fair share to the alliance. just last week, aghazi came home after she presented her situation with president el
now we re hearing about these items related to canada. can you tell me why the focus shifted up north? we had no way to know that the canadian dairy people would take the action that they did. nor did we have any way to know that the lumber dispute wouldn t have been involved through negotiation. we tried. then we went ahead and moved forward with this. is the administration contemplating additional trade actions against canada? as far as i know, there s nothing immediate contemplated. secretary ross, you said the substance of what you ve done is very routine, like this has been done before. but they said what was really irregular is the way that you communicated it. is this something you re trying to do as a pr thing to put nafta