Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. [applause] pres. Trump thahank you very much, everybody. So, welcome to our Cabinet Meeting. Every member of my cabinet is working tirelessly to defeat the invisible enemy that should have never happened to our country, should have never happened to the world. It is a disgrace. It could have been stopped at the source but they decided not to do that. We are going to safely reopen our country and our economy and it is happening very rapidly. Interestinglyg when numbers are actually going down. The state of florida, great job. You look at georgia, others, some are doing extremely well, far beyond what people thought. And the numbers are going down. The numbers we have been talking about for the last two months are going down. So it is really terrific. In our drive to crush the virus, the u. S. Has completed nearly 12 million tests, and that number today is almost 14 million. Nobody is close. Germany would be second with approximat
Thank you for your support and for your knowledge. If i might, id like to have tim start off by seeing saying a few words and and scott turner, executive director, has done an executive director. Scott, we would like to hear from you two. Truth be told, your commitment has gone beyond the voting booth. Youre helping people because they are americans, you dont care if they are democrats or republicans, black or white, rich or poor. Your focus is making sure that america is healthier as we come out of this covid19, and i thank you personally for your support of all people, but specifically to the Underserved Community and what we have before us today is a way for us to improve the economic outcomes and improve the health outcomes, and in the long view of what we think is in the best interest of connecting people to the opportunities that will change. Heir lives from an Economic Development perspective, i always think about capital and competency. The more access to capital you have, the
Care about jobs. If youre american and you want to work, were going to put you back to work, businesses. Why should the people out here care about this issue . Starting with you, scott. Thank you, lawrence, and im so happy to be here with you all at cpac. You know, the president has set forth policies that give the people of america inside of the communities an opportunity to start businesses, to build new homes, you know, to be selfsustaining, to be selfgoverned and fulfill the American Dream and really to fulfill their godgiven potential. I have the honor of the white house the opportunity and revitalization council, which works inside the nations Opportunity Zones. Opportunity zones bring stake holders together inside of communities that havent seen investment in decades. Youre talking about elected officials, community leaders, faith leaders, education leaders with developers and entrepreneurs sitting at the same table at the same time having a hard conversation. You know, whats th
We will come to order. Todays hearing will focus on the reauthorization of the fast act, the nations current surface transportation bill that expires on september 30. We will hear the priorities of key Public Transportation stakeholders. A longterm reauthorization bill is critical to providing the certainty of stability that transit agencies, cities andos d to make responsible transportation lighting decisions. Public transportation plays a key role in our nations economy there are over 400 30,000 workers employed and Public Transportation in the United States. Transit provides approximately 33 million trips every day. Taking Many Americans to and from work, school and medical appointments. Not just in big urban cities, but also small areas. We have found ourselves with yet another reauthorization where the Highway Trust Fund is a most significant issue that needs to be addressed. In order to advance a comprehensive longterm reauthorization bill. While this committee does not have juri
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 its one of the best things you can become. Right there. Thank you. If you become one in your neighborhood you get a 15 increase on average turnout for the president. We had 3,000 of those in 2016. Were on pace right now for 90,000 in 2020. Thats awesome. On top of that, we were about six, seven states strongly this time. Were in 17 states. Weve increased and doubled our budget pretty much of our ground operation across the country. Let me give you a great thing about expanding the map. There are several states last time we didnt win, new hampshire, minnesota, nevada, new mexico. If you look at new mexico and minnesota our budget for those two states was 25,000, one staffer, sent them to colorado because we didnt think we were going to win it. This time were talking about tens of millions more staff on the ground than the entire 2015 ground game and you already have them in those states fighting for it. We only lost minnesota b