Posted on 03/14/2017 11:54:44 AM PDT by EveningStar
3:07 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. I’m proud to welcome everyone to our first official Cabinet meeting.
I want to begin by updating the public on the severe weather situation. I’ve been receiving the latest information on the blizzard forecast, and I think we're in very good shape. We're prepared -- everybody in government is fully prepared and ready. And the entire Northeast, it seems, is under a very severe winter storm warning. So let’s hope it’s not going to be as bad as some people are predicting. Usually it isn’t.
Chancellor Merkel and I have just spoken, and she’s going to be postponing the trip until Friday. She’ll be coming on Friday, and we look forward to that. It will be a very good visit.
I’ve spoken with my Homeland Security Advisor. He’s spoken with the acting FEMA Administrator, instructed him to make certain that the federal government is ready to provide assistance to the states that need federal help. FEMA and the federal government are ready to assist. They are literally waiting by the phones and ready to go.
Everyone should listen to their state and local officials who will be providing regular storm updates. We take that advice very seriously.
This Cabinet is here to serve and protect the American people, and that's what we're doing -- even more so than anybody would understand. The folks in this room have done an amazing job, whether it’s security or anything else. I want to thank General Mattis, who is now Secretary Mattis. I want to thank General Kelly, who is now Secretary Kelly. They've done outstanding work. You see what’s happening. All you have to do is just watch. Big difference.
Unfortunately, not all of our Cabinet members could join us. We have four empty seats -- which is a terrible thing -- because the Senate Democrats are continuing to obstruct the confirmation of our nominees for the Department of Labor, the Department of Agriculture, the Director of National Intelligence, and the United States Trade Representative, somebody I want very badly. We're in the midst of getting going, Wilbur, and they won’t approve somebody who is highly qualified, and everybody understands that. The main victim of this very partisan obstruction is the American public.
Yet in spite of all of this, we've assembled a great team and already made historic progress in delivering results. We're rolling back job-crushing regulations at a faster clip than ever before by far; and we're seeing companies like Exxon, Walmart, Intel, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, and so many others announcing that they will keep and create tens of thousands of jobs in the United States. Many, many companies are not moving now, which normally they would have been out of here a long time ago. They're not moving because they understand there are going to be consequences. If they move, that's fine, but there will be consequences. It’s not going to be so easy. They're not going to fire our people and move and think they're going to ship their jobs back here and we won’t be doing anything about it.
The first two job reports that have come out since my inauguration, we've already added nearly half a million new jobs. Right after this meeting, we’ll be signing a new executive order to begin the process of reorganizing the executive branch to make it less wasteful and more productive. We're also working closely with the House and Senate Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Obamacare, all of a sudden, the last couple of weeks is getting a false rep that maybe it’s okay. It’s not okay; it’s a disaster -- and people understand that. It’s failed and it’s imploding. And if we let it go for another year, it will totally implode. In fact, I’ve told the Republicans, why don't you just let it go for another year, that way everybody will really understand how bad it is. But it would be the wrong thing for us to do and for the American people.
The House plan will expand choice, lower cost, and ensure healthcare access for all. We're negotiating with everybody. It’s a big, fat, beautiful negotiation, and hopefully we’ll come up with something that's going to be really terrific.
I want to thank Paul Ryan and everybody -- Mitch, everybody, they're all working around the clock. And I think ultimately the big beneficiary will be the American people. We’ll end up with a really great healthcare plan.
We're also going to send Congress a budget request that will include one of the largest increases to defense spending in our history. And General/Secretary Mattis is extremely upset about that. (Laughter.) And it will be fully paid for, okay? Fully paid for. And I saved a lot of money on those jets, didn't I? Did I do a good job? More than $725 million on them. He’s very happy with me. (Laughter.)
In the first full month of my administration following the issuance of my executive orders, illegal immigration on our southern border fell by an unprecedented 40 percent. I want to congratulate General Kelly.
At the same time, I’ve issued a presidential memorandum directing the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security to undertake immediate steps to enhance our vetting process. So we're further enhancing our vetting process. We want people in our country who love our country and have the potential to love our country and our people. That's who we want. My administration will work every day to serve and protect our great citizens, and we will not rest until the job is done.
So this is our first Cabinet meeting. I hope this is going to be a historic Cabinet meeting -- historic in the sense that we're going to do a fantastic job for the American people, for our country, and for the future of our country.
So thank you all very much. We’ll see you later. Thank you.
END 3:14 P.M. EDT
Does anyone have one, just one cabinet meeting with the imposter in chief?
I have no idea and no desire to find out.
What really is the impact “If” Obamacare implodes?
Who gets hurt?
In what way?
How will the Crony Capitalist spin this? That is the most troubling part is what will their PR say?
What really is the impact “If” Obamacare implodes?
Who gets hurt?
In what way?
How will the Crony Capitalist spin this? That is the most troubling part is what will their PR say?
MAGA.
“And the entire Northeast, it seems, is under a very severe winter storm warning. So let’s hope it’s not going to be as bad as some people are predicting. Usually it isn’t.”
Right again.
I just found transcripts of his very first and very last cabinet meetings.
“I...ah...I...ah..ah...am happy to...ah...be..here...ahhhhh...ahhhhhh...(thirty minutes later), ....ahh.. ah... and thank you for coming.”
His last meeting
“I...ah...I...ah..ah...am happy to...ah...be..here...ahhhhh...ahhhhhh...(thirty minutes later), ....ahh.. ah... and thank you for coming.”
“We’re also going to send Congress a budget request that will include one of the largest increases to defense spending in our history. And General/Secretary Mattis is extremely upset about that. (Laughter.) And it will be fully paid for, okay? Fully paid for. And I saved a lot of money on those jets, didn’t I? Did I do a good job? More than $725 million on them. He’s very happy with me. (Laughter.) “
It’s called panache.
I notice that Pres. Trump continually compliments Ryan and brags on him; yet some say Ryan is sandbagging on ACA. Trump is no fool. I’m sure he is giving Ryan every chance to do well and do healthcare right. But if Ryan insists on trickery and back-stabbing, Trump will lower the boom; while citing all the times he gave Ryan the benefit of the doubt. Paul better shape up.
The senate will turn that lump of coal from the House into a diamond.
“What really is the impact “If” Obamacare implodes?”
On the phone last night with one of my lib friends and he asked me what I would do if I had Obamacare and it imploded? Said I would go the emergency room and get treated. Line went dead. A few seconds later my friend got back on the line and said, and I quote, “I never thought about that.” Set point.
We have a ways to go before maTch point.
Somebody had been trained to confuse "medical care" with "medical insurance".
And, as a special added attraction, trained not to notice the training as it was going on.
Trump could have written the book about how to win friends and influence people.
“What really is the impact “If” Obamacare implodes? ...
Letting it die on the vine as proof to it’s supporters that it was ill conceived and destined for failure may be the best solution.
Sounds like a great start. Kudos to all involved.
Only 9 +/- million people that actually get their insurance through healthcare.gov AND receive subsidies. If you don't qualify for a subsidy, you can go directly to websites of insurance companies and get your insurance directly from them. So less than 3% of the American people get their insurance through the fiasco known as Obamacare. All of the harm done so that less than 3% of the country get a benefit. That, my friends, is the definition of stupidity.
They need to put forth the really good bill, the one that gives everything Trump promised, with good features, good reasoning, sound fiscal responsibility and planning.
Then let the democraps filibuster it.....for all to see.
In FDR’s first cabinet meeting, they distributed books by Mussolini’s favorite philosopher, Giovanni Gentile, the “philosopher of Fascism”, then the rising new flavor of the totalitarian left.
Mussolini, raised as a communist, and the long term editor of the Italian Communist Party periodical Avanti (Forward), had decided to update the sales “narrative”, with a greater emphasis on race relative to class.
It was very fashionable with the American Democrat Party elite, and at Harvard, and was a big inspiration to Saul Alinsky. Herr Hitler would be lauded as Time Magazine’s Man of the Year, just a few years later (1938). A few years after that, it was down the memory hole with the Democrats and the Lefts affinity to fascism - after that they had to pretend they were always against it, and eugenics.
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