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To do when we passed this in the first place. since it took effect, $1 million jobs have been created and unemployment is at its lowest level in a half century. wages are riding. utility bills are going down and tax reform has been every bit the game changer that we were hoping and envisioned it would be. it has helped replace uncertainty with growing optimism. people are feeling more confident and in more control of their futures and that is what this is all about. not just these six months, bu...

Paul ryan. >> the house will vote on legislation to keep families together. under this bill when people are prosecuted for illegally crossing the borders, families would remain together under dhs custody throughout the length of their legal proceedings. additional funding is also going to be made available so that dhs has sufficient resources to house and care for families during this entire process. this is obviously something we discussed last night with the president at our conference, and i ...

Built, and this is a follow-up to that question, has the president considered what will happen until your legislation is implemented? >> i would refer you to kirstjen nielsen, shes talked about interim measures and the court case is the key thing for us. youve got to change the law so that we can make sure that custody stays at dhs. thats why were voting on this tomorrow. >> first of all, would you entertain a narrow emergency bill that would affect families? >> were trying to pass this legislat...

An exclusive -- under 2 years old? >> lets just make it clear. we dont think families should be separated, period. we have seen the videos, heard the audio and when we were working on this bill for the last number of months we saw that this court ruling was wrong and we had put this fix in the bill to begin with. so lets look at whats going on. this court ruling goes back, i think, 2008, and the law should not have our government choose between enforcing our borders and enforcing our laws and se...