the president yesterday previewed what s next on the economic agenda. we are working very hard to get the tack cuts. we will continue to get the health care completed. i m going to be surprising some people with an economic development bill later on but i haven t even told mitch because i want to focus on tax cut. mitch didn t look surprised. first mentioning the bill last week. it rewards companies that hire in the u.s. and penalizes those sending jobs overseas. the president did not give more information about this bill but the white house says it will come after bills for tax reform, infrastructure and possibly welfare. one thing we re going to be looking at very strongly is welfare reform. that s becoming a very, very big subject, and people are taking advantage of the system and then other people aren t receiving what they really need to live. trump did not give a time
mr. president, sir! north korea. what about the economic development that you mentioned? i will be proposing an economic development bill in the not too distant future. i want to get tack cuts done first. maybe even health care. somewhere in between or shortly there after i am going to be developing an economic development bill that will put us so far ahead of other countries you will not even believe it. that will be very important. sir, mr. president! thank you, mr. president. last week your administration made two major announcements on rolling back the iran deal and getting rid of the cautionary reductions as part of obamacare. and a lot of criticism has been levelled at your administration saying that really all you re doing is lot of praise. fair enough, sir. rolling back a lot of what you re doing is simply rolling back everything your predecessor accomplished. is there a single policy of your predecessor that you specifically do not want to touch, sir?
that s why we re at 3% growth right now and not because of washington d.c. neil: we should explain that is the latest reading, 3%. if you maintain 3% or more growth, what the president is saying, you cut taxes you ll really get the economy booming and make us more competitive. is it your sense now is the time to aggressively push this? we ll hear from ken a little later on. he visited me on fox business. his point was we ve got a lot of bills to pay and a lot of money to help out and that needs to help out the gulf region. now is not the time for tax cuts. my point is a very good time to be talking tack cuts. where do you stand on this? that was a great interview. i love watching him. i get the point of the optics. how can you do a tax cut as a government when we need to do so much for the people of texas? i get that part. but we have to think longer term. i told you dozens of times.
when it comes to his legislative agenda, yay, he got neil gorsuch. here s the other things he said he was going to get done well before where we are now. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. i m lowering your taxes big league. this will be the biggest tack cuts since ronald reagan. we will also repeal and replace the total disaster known as obamacare. we re going to stop it day one. 0-3 there, mark. those were big promises and the legislative agenda that his base elected him to fulfill. that s what they wanted. not the tweets. right. and i would go so far to say that mitch mcconnell changed the rules that allowed neil gorsuch to pass with the bare majority
essentially rushing it through? he won t have it this week just to make that exactly. let me ask you about tax form. there is a sense that it is more realistic to pursue targeted tax cuts as opposed to broad tax reform. will we on wednesday see a proposal for targeted tack cuts? as you stated within your question, i ll let the president and the team speak on wednesday with respect to what they re gonna outline. does the president think that it s realistic to do broad tax reform? i think the president said he s going to make there s a lot of things that are possible. but let s let the president he made a commitment to get it out on wednesday, so let s be patient and wait until wednesday. just one more. of course. is there a plan for infrastructure reform in the work works? that s another thing that s