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DCPD-202501155 - Remarks Prior to a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters

Summary

Category: Budget and Presidential Materials

Collection: Compilation of Presidential Documents

Publisher: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration

Event Date: December 2, 2025

President: Donald J. Trump

Document Categories: Addresses and Remarks : Cabinet meeting

Subjects: 2024 Presidential election
Agricultural production, strengthening efforts
Air traffic control system, modernization efforts
Artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies
Attorney General
Border security
Cabinet meetings
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
China, President
China, trade with U.S.
Christmas
Columbia, drug production and trafficking
Director of National Intelligence
District of Columbia, law enforcement improvement efforts
District of Columbia, shooting of National Guard servicemembers near White House
Economic improvement
Egg prices
Electric and hybrid vehicles, promotion efforts
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal regulations, reduction efforts
Federal Reserve System
Gasoline costs
Health care costs and affordability
Illegal drugs, interdiction efforts
Illegal immigration
Illinois, crime in Chicago
Illinois, Governor
Inflation
Intel Corp., U.S. Government ownership stake
Iran, U.S. airstrikes on nuclear facilities
Iraq, Prime Minister
Iraq, security cooperation with U.S.
Japan, trade with U.S.
Louisiana, Governor
Manufacturing industry, domestic investment
Mexico, border with U.S., infrastructure and security
Minnesota, Governor
Minnesota, Somali refugees
National Guard
Nobel Prize for Peace
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Office of Management and Budget
Oil and natural gas, domestic production
Opioid epidemic, efforts to combat
Prescription drug costs, reduction efforts
Russia, conflict in Ukraine
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Homeland Security
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of War
Small Business Administration
South Korea, trade with U.S.
Suspected drug-trafficking vessels, U.S. airstrikes in Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific
Tariffs
Tax Code reform
U.S. Border Patrol
U.S. diplomatic efforts, expansion
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Trade Representative
Ukraine, international military aid
Ukraine, Russian invasion and airstrikes
Undocumented immigrants, deportation of criminals
Venezuela, drug production and trafficking
Venezuela, President
Veterans, health and medical care
Vice President
White House Ballroom construction project
White House Border Czar
White House Chief of Staff

Names: Beckstrom, Evalea; Beckstrom, Gary; Beckstrom, Sarah; Bessent, Scott K.H.; Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Bondi, Pamela J.; Bradley, F. Mitchell; Burgum, Douglas J.; Buttigieg, Peter P.M.; Chavez-DeRemer, Lori M.; Collins, Douglas A.; Dimon, James; Duffy, Sean P.; Gabbard, Tulsi; Greer, Jamieson L.; Harris, Kamala D.; Hegseth, Peter B.; Homan, Thomas D.; Johnson, Brandon; Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.; Lakanwal, Rahmanullah; Landry, Jeffrey M.; Loeffler, Kelly L.; Machado, María Corina; Maduro Moros, Nicolas; McMahon, Linda E.; Musk, Elon R.; Noem, Kristi L.; Omar, Ilhan A.; Oz, Mehmet; Powell, Jerome H.; Pritzker, Jay R. "J.B."; Rollins, Brooke L.; Rubio, Marco A.; Sudani, Muhammad Shia' al-; Tan, Lip-Bu; Trump, Melania; Turner, E. Scott; Vought, Russell T.; Walz, Timothy J.; Wiles, Susan; Wolfe, Andrew; Wolfe, Melody; Wright, Christopher A.; Xi Jinping; Zeldin, Lee M.

Locations: Washington, DC

Notes: The President spoke at 11:49 a.m. in the Cabinet Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to former Vice President Kamala D. Harris, in her capacity as the 2024 Democratic Presidential nominee; Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors Jerome H. Powell; James Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer, JPMorgan Chase and Co.; Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz; White House Border Czar Thomas D. Homan; White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles; Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Prize for Peace recipient María Corina Machado; Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, USA, and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, USAF, members of the West Virginia National Guard, who were shot in an ambush-style attack during a patrol near the White House in Washington, DC, on November 26; Evalea and Gary Beckstrom, parents of Spc. Beckstrom; Melody Wolfe, mother of Staff Sgt. Wolfe; Rahmanullah Lakanwal, suspected gunman in the shooting; Gov. Jay R. "J.B." Pritzker of Illinois; Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, IL; Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive officer, Intel Corp.; former Secretary of Transportation Peter P.M. Buttigieg; Adm. F. Mitchell Bradley, USN, Commander, U.S. Southern Command; and Prime Minister Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani of Iraq. Secretary Kennedy referred to Commissioner of Food and Drugs Martin A. Makary; and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya. Reporters referred to Prime Minister Masrour Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government; U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steven C. Witkoff; and the President's son-in-law Jared C. Kushner. Secretary Hegseth referred to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on December 3.