Administration of Donald J. Trump, 2018

April 16, 2018

The President. Oh, what a group. What a group. These are my friends. These are great friends. And we have great friends right here. So thank you very much, everybody. We really appreciate it.

We've made tremendous progress in our country. We're working on a new trade deals that are going to be great deals. We're, as you know, very tough on Cuba. [*Applause*] Right? Have no choice. Not fair. Not fair what happened. We're tough. But this is ourâwe're going to celebrate a little bit. I love it behind us: "USA: Open for Business." Whose idea was that? That'sâMarco. It was Marco. [*Laughter*]

And it is. It's open for business. We're doing tremendously. Companies are moving back into our country now. We have billions of dollars, and even trillions of dollars, going to be coming back inâalready started. Apple, $350 billion investment in, really, a new campus. Beautiful, beautiful campus and plants. And I've always wanted that. So many of the companies are bringing back their money; they're putting it to work. Chrysler is opening up a big, beautiful plant in Michigan. And so many other car companies. And it's a whole different story. They all want to be part of it.

And I want to thank Senator Rubio. He's been a great friend. Great friend. [*Applause*] Great. And, Mario, I want to thank you. You haveâright from day one. Thank you. Thank you. And our Secretary of the Treasury, he's right there, and our Secretary of Labor. Thank you, Alex. Thank you, Steve. Great choices. Not all of my choices were good, but they were great ones. [*Laughter*]

Tomorrow is tax day, and we're going to hear from everybody and everyâI mean, we have heard from so many people. They're so thrilled. And remember this: This is the last time you're going to fill up that long, complicated, horrible return. I would say that some of these taxâ [*applause*]âsome of these companies that do all that work on getting a lot of money for doing your tax returns, they're not going to be too happy with us. But that's about the only business that won't be.

So tomorrow, last day. Very importantly, next year, it's going to be a simpleâfor the most part, one page. It may get a little bit bigger. But it will be simple and easy to do. And very importantly, you're going to have a lot of money left over from what you have.

And we didn't get one Democrat to vote for us. And Senator Nelson was hostile to it. And let me tell you, if for any reason they get in, meaning, the Democrats, they're going to raise your taxes way up high; they're going to terminate this out. Of course, I'll veto it. That's all right. But eventually, they want to terminate, and they want to raise your taxes. And we cannot let that happen because this country is starting to rock with our businesses coming back in. It's starting to really rock.

So we've had massive tax cuts. And I mean massive. We've had tremendous success from the company standpoint and from the people standpoint. They're going out; they have a lot more money to spend. And you know, something happened that we didn't even expect; nobody talked about it. When we first had it passed, it started with, well, AT&T. But we might as well give them credit. But they gave thousand-dollar bonuses to their employees, and that's a lot of employees.

Then, all of a sudden, other companies came along. And now you have all of the bigâI mean, so many of the big companies, they've given bonuses to the people that work for the companies.

That was unexpected. Nobody thought that was going to happen. And most importantly, we waited until February 1. And you see what's happened to your wallet, when you're getting a lot more money in your weekly or monthly checks than you ever thought possible. So people are really liking it.

And very importantly, it's great for the country. Our taxes were the highest, or among the highestâbut just about, I would say, Marco, they were the highest in the world from a business standpoint. That's why businesses were leaving. Now, they're not the lowest, but they're on the low side. And businesses are pouring back into the United States. And that means job. That means jobs.

So we've created, since election day, that beautiful, beautiful day. Was that a great day? That was a beautiful day. Mario was saying we got a big, big percentage vote over here. Didn't we?

Representative Mario R. DÃaz-Balart. We did. [Laughter]

The President. Huh? We got a big percentage vote. But since election day, we've created 3 million new jobs. Three million. And people, if I would have said that, prior to the election, that we'll create, in a short period of time, 3 million jobs, they would have said, that's ridiculous, that's an exaggeration, how can it be possible. We would have taken a lot of heat.

But we've created 3 million new jobs, and now the number is even higher than that. So, since election day, 3 million new jobs. Unemployment rates for Hispanicsâare there any Hispanics in the room? No, I doubt that. [*Laughter*] For Hispanics, theâwe have the lowest level ever recorded. In other words, you have more employmentâno, think of it: Lowest level employment [unemployment; White House correction.] rates. For African Americans, the lowest level ever recorded. And I'm really proud of it.

Unemployment for womenâfor womenâlowest level in 18 years. Women out there? So that means, if you're a woman and Hispanic, or a woman and African American, you're really doing well, right? [*Laughter*] Ifâthat means you're really doing well. Remember what I used to say? I used to take heat for it. "What do you have to lose?" I'd say, "What do you have to lose?" Every once in a while, I'd say, if it was a rambunctious stadium or something, I'd say, "What the hell do you have to lose?" [*Laughter*] Right? And I'd get criticized by those people, the fake media back there.

Audience members. Boo!

The President. Fake media. No, I'd get criticized for using the word "hell." I'd say, I've a heck of a lot worse than that. [Laughter] But the economyâLarry Kudlow is here someplace. Where's Larry? Larry Kudlow. Where's Larry? Come on, Larry, stand up. He just gave me a number. He said the economy is entering the greatest boom in many decades. In other words, it's now at the phaseâearly phaseâwould you say that, Larry?âof the earliest and greatestâthis could be one of the greatest booms ever. I think it will be, actually, because the companies are so strong, and they're ready to rock.

What do you think, Larry?

National Economic Council Director Lawrence A. Kudlow. Yes.

The President. Good, I thought you were going to say that. [Laughter] Can you imagine if he didn't? Can you imagine if he said, "No, I disagree with that"?

Director Kudlow. [Inaudible]âaim is to grow.

The President. Right.

Director Kudlow. [Inaudible]âgrow the Nation's economy. And everybody is going to benefit.

The President. Everybody is going to benefit, he said. [Laughter] That's right.

And very importantlyâand by the way, John Bolton is here, and we just had a big successful hit. John? So I thinkâ[*applause*]âwhoa. John, that's pretty good. I didn't expect that. I'm a little jealous. [*Laughter*] Are you giving him all the credit? That'sâ[*laughter*]. Oh, you know that means the end of his job, you know. [*Laughter*] He did. Did he doâdid our generals do a great job? Did our military do a great job? [*Applause*] Yes, they did. And you know, with way over 100 missiles shot in, they didn't shoot one down. The equipment didn't work too wellâ their equipment. [*Laughter*] And they didn't shoot one. You know, you heard, "Oh, they shot 40 down, and then they shot 15 down." Then, I called; I said, "Did they?" "No, sir." Every single one hit its target. Think of thatâhow genius. Not one was shot.

So we have the biggest tax cut in history, bigger than the Reagan tax cut. Bigger than any tax cut. But what else? The individual mandate is gone. That's on Obamacare, which is about the end of Obamacare. So we had Obamacare beat; then, one Senator decided to go thumbs down. Do you remember that evening? Do you remember that? No, nobody remembers. Thumbs down. [*Laughter*] But it's all right, because Alex Acosta has come up and, you know, this is a plan that a lot of people have wanted for a long time, associations. And we're going to have tremendous signups.

And, Alex, when is that? Tell me if you could. When is that going to be ready, where people can actually start signing and doing it in groups and through cooperatives, et cetera?

Secretary of Labor R. Alexander Acosta. That's right, Mr. President. We hope to have that by this summer.

The President. It's going to be incredible. You're going to get tremendous insurance at a very low cost. So the individual mandate is dead. ANWR is up; that's the big energy that nobody thoughtâyou know, it's funny, I didn't want to do it. I said, no, let's not do that. And then, a person called up, who I have a lot of respect for in the energy business. He said, "Is it true that you're going to get ANWR as part of your tax cut plan?" You know, they put a lot of things in.

So we had the individual mandate, we have ANWR. I said: "Yes it's true. Tell me about it, because I'm not inclined to do it," I said, "for a very specific reason." He said, "Well, I'll tell you, it's pretty amazing." He didn't benefit by it, but he said: "They've been trying to get this passed since Ronald Reagan. Nobody could get it done. No President could get it done. Nobody. It's impossible. It's, perhaps, the most, the biggest, the best in the world, in terms of energy, in terms of a field." He said, "Nobody has been able to get it done." As soon as I heard that, I said, I called up, I said, "Put that back in the bill, quickly." [*Laughter*] Right? And we got it done. Marco, we got it done. That was a big deal. And that's a lot of jobs in Alaska. That's a lot of jobs. Right?

So just another thing, because, you know, the tax cut is massive. And not since Reagan. But this is bigger. You look at the whole bill, it's bigger than anything ever passed. But very importantlyâand that's a tremendous asset to our country. But we did another thing that people don't talk about much. We cut regulations at a level that nobody has seen in the history of our country, more than any other President.

So I'm here, 15, 16 months, and we've cut more regulations than any President, whether it's 4 years, 8 years, or in one case, 16 years. Nobody is even close. And we're not finished yet. Where roads and highways would take 17, 18 years to get a permit or not even get approved. You know, a lot. The worst is, they'd go out 17 years, and then they'd vote it down.

Now we're looking to get it down to 2 years and maybe even 1 year. And maybe get rejected. You know, nobody is going to say it's not going to getâmaybe it gets rejected. But if it does, it's going to get rejected quickly. You're not going to take an entire lifetime to get something approved, and then all of sudden, you find outâand I've had projectsâit took years and years, and then you go, "Fortunately, they got approved."

But I've had projects that took 4, 5, 6 years to get approved. Big building projects. And I said to myself, going into the final approvals, I said, "You know, if these five people don't vote for it, I've wasted millions and millions of dollars, and I've wasted 5 or 6 years of my life trying to get a project approved." It's not right. You know if something is good and if it's going to get approved.

So we have the biggest regulation cut. And I'm not so sure that the regulation cut, Marco, isn't even more important than this massive tax cut, but it's right up there, and we're continuing to go. So we think that things that would take sometimes two decades to get approved can be done in 2 years and even 1 year. And again, if they're not environmentally good, if they're not safe, if it's not great for our water and our air and all of the things that we watch and we think are so important, we're not going to approve it.

But we're going to have fast approvals. We have many, many jobs that started now that would never start if the other administration came in. And that's why you see the job numbers the way they are. The job numbers are through the roof, and the training numbers are through the roof. And you see it.

And I justâthey don't talk about regulation much. I think it's as important as the big massive tax cut. So I just wanted to let you know that. Business and consumer confidence in our country is at an alltime high. Larry just gave me the numbers, and there's nothing close. So we're at an alltime high.

And the tax cuts for a family. Let's talk about just families now, because, number one, the jobs. You have choice. You know, we're creating choice for our great veterans, all right? Choice. This is a different kind of choice. So this is a different kind of choice. This is choice for a job. In the past, jobs, we weren't doing great and you'd have one job, and you'd hold on. You really have choice.

We areâpeople are hiring. And wages, for the first time in 18 years, are going up. Because I used to make those speechesâI came down here and made one. Wages were stagnant, and even going down. People made more money 18 years ago, and today they're working two and three jobs. First time in 18 years where wages are going up. Congratulations. Enjoy your money.

Congratulations.

So today we're joined by Florida business owners and workers who are experiencing the incredible results of the tax cuts, and I'd like to invite each of you to share some of your stories. If we can start, let's start right at the end of the table.

Palmetto Transport, Inc. Owner Alberto Bello, Jr. Thank you, Mr. President.

The President. You look like a very prosperous guy, I have to say. [Laughter]

Mr. Bello. Trying to be. Trying to be. My name is Alberto Bello. I'm of Cuban American descent, born and raised in Hialeah, Florida, and very proud of that. Thank you. My family history in trucking has beenâgoes back to days since 1972. My father opened Palmetto Transport in 1992, and I was successful enough and happy enough to take the company over in 2004.

Due to the surging economy we have now in South Florida, and to the tax reform, I've been able to invest in newer technology, been able to buy more equipment, and hire more employees

for my business. And, Mr. President, I just want to say thank you for making America great again.

The President. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Marco, I'd like toâyou have been such a help. I'd like you to say a few words before we go next.

Senator Marco A. Rubio. Well, first of all, thank you, Mr. President. Being here, I'd think I'd be remiss if I first didn't thank you for being a champion for the cause of freedom and democracy in this hemisphere. This is aâ[applause]. That was very clear this weekend with the Vice President's presence at the Summit of the Americas, whether it's on Cuba or on Venezuela, the United States has led the way on fighting for freedom.

[*At this point, Sen. Rubio continued his remarks, concluding as follows.*]

And finally, I want to thank you, as well, for the child tax credit. Millions of parents across this country will have more money in their pocket come tax time next year because of your leadership and of your work. And if I may, for 15 seconds, because a lot of those people covering this do so in Spanish, rather than let them use an interpreter, can I just say something to them?

Soââ

The President. Yes. Go ahead, please. Please.

[*Sen. Rubio spoke in Spanish, and no translation was provided.*]

The President. So I was going to ask, is he better in English or Spanish? But they didn't stand for the English, and they stood for the Spanish. So I don't have to ask the question. [Laughter] That's very good, actually.

Sen. Rubio. I just said, "They saved a bunch of money by switching to GEICO." That's what Iâ[laughter].

The President. Oh, that's good. Very good. Thank you, Marco, very much. We appreciate it.

And you know, Doral, right down the road, I own it. [*Laughter*] Surroundedâ[*laughter*]. I don't think about it anymore, I will tell you. Surrounded by Venezuelans, as you know. A lot of Venezuelans. Those are great, great people. And we are working very hard on the Venezuelan horror show that's happening. And I think you see that; I think you know that. But I got to know the Venezuelan people because so many of them are in that area, the Doral area. And I will tell you, these are great people.

So between Cuba and Venezuela and, really, hopefully, every place else, you are very well represented. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

So go ahead.

Audience member. Mr. President, thank you for coming to Hialeah!

The President. Thank you, darling. [Laughter] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Dentist Patricia C. Junquera. Good afternoon, Mr. President. My name is Dr. Patricia Junquera. I was born in Cuba October 27, 1948, and came to this country in 1967. Since 1984, I have practiced dentistry in Miami-Dade County. For my business and my practice, the tax law that was passed in December 2017 has brought improvement to the practice, like we were able to buy new and last-generation equipment.

[*Ms. Junquera continued her remarks, concluding as follows.*]

Due to the changes in that tax policies, we plan to open more positions in the front office and as a hygienist. It is a pleasure to have you here with us, and I am glad that you are taking action to make America truly great again.

The President. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Beautiful.

Beautiful job.

So I know Maximo. And you've built a great company. And now it's become, you just said, even greater. So go ahead. Let us know how many more people you're hiring.

Sunshine Gasoline Distributors, Inc. President and Owner Maximo Alvarez. Well, number one, thank you for being here.

The President. Thanks, Maximo.

Mr. Alvarez. It's truly overwhelming, the feeling, to think that almost 60 years ago, at age 13, I arrived in this great country of ours. And that one day, 60 years later, I was going to be next to Marco Rubio, our greatest Senator, and one of the best Presidentsâto have the best President.

The President. Thank you.

Mr. Alvarez. My name is Maximo Alvarez. Most of you people know me as Max. I've said this before, I'm a Pedro Pan. I was one of over 14,000 children that came from Cuba without parents. And lo and behold, I just happened to arrive in the finest, most generous country in the world. Andâ[applause].

My notes look similar to the President, believe it or not. He's got justânotes just like this.

So just really, because we talk from our hearts, so we don't have to read very much to tell you our little story. It's a story of many, many millions of people who come to this country to look for an opportunity. And our President has now restored the capacity of people like me, that started a business from the trunk of our cars, to become a very prominent company where we impact over fiftyâ40,000 families.

[*Mr. Alvarez continued his remarks, concluding as follows.*]

And last, on a side note, he owns Doral. I live it, because I've been at Doral since 1988.

Thank you very much. Where he took something that was run down, that it was absolutely third- world country, and made it into the nicest place that we have in South Florida.

Thank you very much. And that's on a side note.

The President. Thanks, Max. Actually, he was much quicker than I thought, okay? [Laughter]

So, Irina, you have a great story. Please.

Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine Owner Irina VilariÃ±o. Thank you. Good morning, Mr. President.

Thank you for allowing me to be here with you today. It is a great honor.

The President. Thank you.

Ms. VilariÃ±o. My name is Irina VilariÃ±o. My family and I arrived in 1980 during the Mariel exodus. We brought nothing with us, only the clothes we were wearing. However, we didn't come here for a handout. We came here because this was the Promised Land: a country that promised political stability, respect of law, opportunity, and freedom.

[*Ms. VilariÃ±o continued her remarks, resuming as follows.*]

Government helps small businesses by letting us do our jobs and getting out of the way by unleashing the American spirit. Your incentives have created huge demand in the labor market.

So, therefore, in order to retain and hire new employees, our hourly employees have seen an approximate wage increase of about 20 percent in this short time period. People are earning more, and therefore, this gives them confidence to go out and spend more, a win-win for everyone.

On a personal note, I'd like to say that I've been a supporter from day one when you announced your candidacy.

The President. Thank you.

Ms. VilariÃ±o. And I have Facebook to prove it.

The President. Good. [Laughter]

Ms. VilariÃ±o. Having come from a country that promised everything and only delivered misery, I knew that 8 years of promoting appeasement, apologies, and entitlement was taking us down a path of no return.

[*Ms. VilariÃ±o continued her remarks, concluding as follows.*]

I am grateful millions of us had the good sense to elect a man who believes in the greatness of this country so that it may be preserved at all costs for future generations.

Thank you, and God bless you, Mr. President.

The President. Thank you. Thank you, darling. I think the politicians are being beaten today.

Ms. VilariÃ±o. Thank you. [Laughter]

The President. So, Mario, give us a good few words, please.

Rep. Diaz-Balart. Mr. President, after that one, it's hard to follow. But let me first agree to what our fine Senator stated. This community understands freedom, what it takes, the loss of freedom. And your support in this hemisphere, but particular for the cause of a free Cuba and a free Venezuela, is something that we thank God every day forânumber one.

The President. Thank you.

Rep. Diaz-Balart. Number twoâagain, this is a community that's very diverse. And, Mr.

President, one of the things that I never thought I would see, and I was getting frustrated, is finally moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Thank you for your courage.

[*Rep. Diaz-Balart continued his remarks, concluding as follows.*]

But look what happens when you cut regulation, you lower taxes, you free up the American people, good things happen. So we're very grateful. And no place in the country is more emblematic of the hard work of the American people and the entrepreneurship than here in Hialeah. Welcome to Hialeah, Mr. President.

The President. Thank you, Mario. You know, Max mentioned something that nobody thought they'd ever see, and that's 1-year expensing. The expensing of equipment and other things that you're going to be investing in, where you can write it off in 1 year, nobody thought they'd ever see that. And that's had a huge impact. I think that's even bigger than the trillions of dollars that are going to come back from foreign lands. Because as you know, the money was locked out there. Under the old laws, you could never bring it back in. It was impossible, almost.

And the taxes were too high. If they did bring it in, it was a very complicated thing to do.

But if they did bring it in, the taxes were so high, it made no sense. So we have trillions of dollars coming back into our country. But I believe that expensing, a very simple clause that we got in, Marco, wasn't easy. But I think the 1-year expensing is going to have a bigger impact than almost anything else in the bill. So thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Yes, sir, go ahead. Please.

Continental National Bank President and Chief Executive Officer Guillermo Diaz-Rousselot.

Thank you, Mr. President. First of all, thank you for inviting me amongst these august group of people, like Max. My name is Guillermo Diaz-Rousselot. Like Max, I came to the United States in 1960 from Cuba, also without my parents.

[*Mr. Diaz-Rousselot continued his remarks, concluding as follows.*]

One of the things about employment, before, you can hire anybody that you wanted because there were so many bankers out of work. Not anymore. Now we compete against each other, and we have a group of bankers that we're stealing from each other, and you'd better pay top dollar in order to get that high, really necessary individuals for your business to work with. I want to personallyâand our loan revenues are over the top from last year at this point in time.

I want to personally thank you, sir, for the actions that you've taken in the world and here in Miami.

The President. Thank you, sir, very much. That's very nice. Thank you very much. Thank

you.

Please.

Biscayne Bay Brewing Co. Owner Jose Mallea. Mr. President, thank you for doing this here

in the city of Hialeah. This is a very meaningful place for a lot of us.

Jose Mallea, owner of Biscayne Bay Brewing Company. We have a craft brewery, actually, based in Doral. But I actually grew up five blocks from here in an apartment building just down the street. I attended middle school next door at JosÃ© MartÃ Middle School, and I played on these courts, on these fields, and on so many parks of the city of Hialeah. I'm a proud product of the city of Hialeah parks and recreation system.

My parents, my mother Marlene, and my father Nicolas Mallea, both immigrants from Ecuador and Cuba, and for me to be sitting here with you today, living out my dream as a small- business owner, surrounded with so many amazing leaders and other successful business owners is a testament to why this really is the greatest country in the history of the world. So thank you so much for inviting me here.

The President. Thank you very much. Great.

Mr. Mallea. The Tax Cut and Jobs Act has really been just an amazing benefit to the craft beer community. It included a 50-percent reduction in the excise tax on our beer, which has helped all of us small craft brewersâwe're all small manufacturing businesses that are growingâ reinvest in our businesses.

[*Mr. Mallea continued his remarks, concluding as follows.*]

And like everyone mentioned, the opportunities that we have in this great country that so many of us don'tâour parents didn't have in theirsâit's why so many of you continue to lead, and it's important that we continue to do this. And we're here to support you. I know Hialeah will always be behind you. But all of us in the business community are incredibly grateful. So thank you so much for that.

The President. Thank you very much. That's beautiful. Thank you.

Well, I really appreciate the support that we've had from Hialeah, and from Florida. The State of Florida was a great victory. It was a big victory. Remember that famous evening: "Donald Trump has won the State of Florida." And they started saying, "Oh, wow."

Ms. VilariÃ±o. Well, we need 4 more years.

The President. That was a long evening for them. They had a lot ofâwe had a lot of great success. And I think, most importantly, somebodyâactually, not even a friend of mineâsaid that President Trump has actually produced more than he's promised.

And I think if you look at what's happening with the economy, with the regulations, with the taxes that most people said would never, ever be able to happen. You know, they used to call it "tax reform." And that's why for almost 40 years they couldn't get anything passed, because they used the word "tax reform."

So I met with the politicians. And you know, I've only been doing this for like 2Â½ years. [*Laughter*] So I said: "What's the problem? How can you not get tax cuts?" They said: "Well, we don't call it tax cuts. We call it tax reform." I said, that's your problem. Tax reform doesn't work because we do have tax reform, but people don't understand that, you know, what we're doing is cutting taxes. We're also reforming, but that could be an increase in taxes. We're cutting taxes.

So we go, the tax cut and jobs plan. Now, I wanted to call itâthey asked me, "What would you like to call it?" I said, "How about"âthis is after the word "reform"â"How about 'The Tax Cut, Cut, Cut, Cut Plan'?" [*Laughter*] And they thought it was a little tacky. I said, "But it gets the point across. But we did call it the tax cut plan. So it was very big.

I just want to leave you with this: We lose a tremendous number of jobs and money with almost every country we do business with. And in many cases, our friends are worse than our enemies, in terms of trade deals. They're being renegotiated. We're straightening them out. If we don't straighten them out, we're going to terminate them, and we'll start all over again.

But our country has been taken advantage of for many, many years, whether it's China, whether it's Mexico, whether it's, I could name almost every country. The European Union, as an example, is very hard to do business. We lost $151 billion with the European Union last yearâ

$151 billion. It's very hard for us to get our products in, but they send their cars in like Mercedes and like BMW and like lots of other things.

And we're straightening that out. We're not going to let it go on any longer. We can't let it go on any longer. So you'll be able to send your product in. But Japan and South Korea, so many countries justâand it's massive numbers. I mean, Mexico, nobody knows this, we lost last year, in terms of a trade deficit, $100 billion with Mexico. We can't keep doing this, folks. And we're not going to. So we're renegotiating NAFTA, which was probably the worst deal ever made in the history of trade.

But with China, we're at $375 billion trade deficit. So we started a process, and we'll see how it ends up. But we're going to win. You know, I always said we had an imbalance of $504 billion. And I always said, "When you're down $504 billion, you can't lose." Okay? We lost years ago by Presidents and others allowing this to happen. They should have never allowed it to happen. But we're going to bring it back, and we're bringing it back strong. It's already happening. People see it. It's already happening.

So I just want to thank all of the people of Florida, all of the people of Hialeah. You are spectacular people, hard-working people. I love you. And we will go on to things, I think, that maybe our economy and our country have really never seen before. We have such tremendous potential because of people like you.

Thank you all very much for being here. It's an honor. Thank you, Max.

NOTE: The President spoke at 12:35 p.m. in the gymnasium at the Bucky Dent Park. In his remarks, he referred to Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin; National Security Adviser John R. Bolton; and Sen. John S. McCain III.

Categories: Addresses and Remarks : "Tax Cuts for Florida Small Businesses" roundtable discussion in Hialeah, FL.

Locations: Hialeah, FL.

Names: Acosta, R; Acosta, R. Alexander; Alvarez, Maximo; Bello, Alberto, Jr.; Bolton, John R.; DÃaz-Balart, Mario R.; Diaz-Rousselot, Guillermo; Junquera, Patricia C.; Kudlow, Lawrence A.; Mallea, Jose; McCain, John S., III; Mnuchin, Steven T.; Nelson, C. William.; Rubio, Marco A.; VilariÃ±o, Irina.

Subjects: Alaska : Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR); Armed Forces, U.S. : Servicemembers :: Service and dedication; Business and industry : Automobile industry :: Improvement; Business and industry : Business leaders, meeting with President; Business and industry : Domestic investment, promotion efforts; China : Trade with U.S.; Commerce, international : Free and fair trade; Commerce, international : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Communications : News media :: Accuracy and fairness; Cuba : U.S. policy changes; Economy, national : Household income and wages; Economy, national : Improvement; Employment and unemployment : Job creation and growth; Employment and unemployment : Unemployment rate; Energy : Domestic production, promotion efforts; Florida : President's visits; Government organization and employees : Federal infrastructure review and permitting, modernization efforts; Government organization and employees : Federal regulations, review; Health and medical care : Individual insurance mandate, tax penalty; Labor, Department of : Secretary; Syria : U.S. and coalition airstrikes; Taxation : Corporate tax rates; Taxation : Tax Code, reform; Taxation : Tax relief; Treasury, Department of the : Secretary; White House Office

: Assistants to the President :: National Security Adviser; White House Office : Economic Council, National.

DCPD Number: DCPD201800244.