Thank you. What a nice group. Thank you marianne. I thank you like her i said he was out there they like so much . It is marianne. Before i begin i want to send my warm wishes to the great people of tennessee in the wake of the horrible very vicious tornado that killed at least 19 people and injured many more. We are working with the leaders and tennessee including the governor to make sure everything is done part one properly. Fema is already on the ground full of sorrow the vicious tornadoes i have seen many of them during the threeyear period and their results and they are vicious. Bad things happen. I went to alabama and i saw the devastation that left and everybody was so incredible , the people were incredible but so many are killed and many will be going to tennessee on friday. We send our love and prayers of our nation to every family affected. We will get there and recover and rebuild and help them and condolences. A tough tough situation its bad news when you see that. I am honored to be here with the National Association of counties annual legislative conference. A good group of people. Ive dealt with you for a long time over the years. Every once in a while i will find i dont like. [laughter] but generally speaking. [laughter] [applause] and when one of you are away its tough to get that job done. [laughter] when you are helpful if we could get it done then we have good results. And people that were doing before i got here incredible job. Some of the most incredible people doing what you do. Thank you very much. [cheers and applause] in this room there were over 1200 those that drive directly and profoundly improve the lives of americans each and every day. Want you to know my administration will always be your friend and partner and ally and resource as you work to deliver an amazing future for your communities and the country itself. As i said in my state of the Union Address, three years ago i had a number of the state of the unions already, can you believe it . We were the Great American come back. We launched it with a certain splash that hasnt been seen in a long time our country is so strong now. We have rebuilt the military, cut taxes, cut regulations. [cheers and applause] you know the regulation business better than any group i can think of. Sadly 5 percent of you say i wish he would not have cut. [laughter] but 95 percent say there was a problem and we talk about highways that would get to be approved 18 or 20 years i can give you many examples not even highway sometimes just roadways but you cut regulations at a level nobody ever thought possible and we did it with the extraordinary help of local officials, people like yourselves who work with the department of transportation and other departments that we work with sometimes it would take 20 or 21 years to get approval we have it down at two i want to get it down at one. [applause] meaning it could get rejected if there are safety concerns to look at, Environmental Concerns we have to look at but to go 20 years and then get a rejection how about you wait ten years and then at the end of ten years they flow and reject you. I guarantee there are some people in the room. [laughter] thats not fun you devote a big chunk of your life to something that you lose three two. You go home how did you do . Not good. [laughter] there is a lot of power in this room. You know the kind of power that you have. Yes you do but welcoming over through all 50 states and new cooperation. [applause] as we speak my administration is working very closely with leaders on the coronavirus. We are working hard on it. Vice president pence is leading the White House Task force and hes doing a terrific job. [applause] we have already met with state and county and Health Officials to conduct regular briefings with governors to coordinate our response to contain the disease it just shows you what could happen six or eight weeks ago you never heard of it now all of a sudden it has the world on fire. Sometimes not to this extent or a greater extent but things happen you would never think would happen and then you do a lot of good work and you take care of the situation. People do that better than anybody the levels most advanced Public Health system we know county Health Officials play the frontline role to battle Public Health threats and we are working closely with congress to pass supplemental legislation for state and county health departments. I asked two. 5 million, looks like it will give us a. Five. [applause] i should say ill take it. Right . I asked for two and a half and they give me a and a half and i said i will take it but everyone is working together very well to prevent the uncontrolled spread of the disease. We have stopped earlier than people wanted me to do that and that was a wise decision. [applause] we increase travel advisory level the screening measures to impose historic quarantines we urge all of you to share information about basic Safety Practices for communities back home cdc has all the information its a good thing to refer to following my remarks today doctor redfield the doctor of the cdc and doing a fantastic job working around the clock with the worlds greatest professionals and working very very hard. We are moving aggressively to accelerate the process of this vaccine. I met yesterday with the biggest Drug Companies pfizer and Johnson Johnson and other Great Companies. A lot of things are happening they are happening very fast. I said speed it up. They will. They are working very hard. We are moving at maximum speed to develop the therapies not only the vaccines but the therapies for a cure it helps to get the People Better faster and reduce the severity of the illness. If you look at what is happened with aids and a tremendous job they have done there. Nobody would of thought to be a its free within nine years. [applause] they are doing a fantastic job. Over the last three years to put our country in the best possible position. Our economy is prospering like never before we relocated supply chains back into the United States. Now it is back in the United States and also as you probably have noticed after two years complaining of the medicines outside of the United States and want them to be back here. Theres no reason we cannot use another country but i wanted to be made here and we have started the process before this happened. [applause] for this is why we have to do it. Jobs and growth have soared in the United States at a level that is unprecedented historic and also historic investment in our country no country has had greater power to overcome adversity and what we have done in so many different ways to rebuild the military two two. 5 trillion its important to have a good budget but if we dont have a strong military. [cheers and applause] we never want to be in a position where you try to explain to people i wish we had a good budget as a runup to the white house no thank you. You say you should have spent more money on military i guess. But the military was totally depleted it was an embarrassmen embarrassment. We totally be built the military must one most of the equipment is there with planes and missiles and rockets. Making the greatest military all made in the usa. [cheers and applause] all made in the usa. Every bit. Rebuilding our navy. We are doing the job. Two. 5 trillion when you think of the importance of the military the most important thing the president does so 218 new federal judges have been named. [cheers and applause] that is a record. Only one person beat me percentagewise. Does anybody know . President obama was very nice he had 142. Who was that one percentage . George washington. He had 100 percent. [applause] we have done a lot more than him. But he had 100 percent the my reading administration make engagement a top priority because of the needs of the local Community Better than local officials nobody and with your help we feel very strongly about that with our economy is the envy of the world by the way yesterday did you notice the market went up . The highest, the biggest one day gain in the history of our country. That was a nice surprise it took hurt from the previous week from something we didnt think would happen. That was tremendous and today it is up in the Federal Reserve cut rates finally. Finally. [applause] do wed a little bit more to be competitive with these other countries. The current seas are cut to the level of what their rate is cut they play with the value of their currency we have a different theory going i dont say necessarily to do it but we have to be competitive with other countries to points more than germany or more than other countries. We should be paying less we have the strength in the greatest country on earth we should be paying less it is too high and it puts us at a competitive disadvantage especially exporting product to other countries. Other countries like that i dont like it at all. [applause] so i would like to see our fed lead instead of being led we have created 7 million more job since the election if you said 7 million jobs nobody would have believe that number. [cheers and applause] the optimistic projection by the Previous Administration was 2 million jobs that it would be 2 million by this time now it is over 7 million. That something incredible africanamerican and at the lowest level in history. Did you know that . Median Household Income is at the highest level ever recorded president bush it is 450 he go to president obama over eight years 975 and then you go to President Trump over a period of three years almost 10000. [cheers and applause] that is a big difference. Over a much shorter. And if you take a look at it and look at the results, our consumer is so powerful and strong it is whats leading our economy nobody has a consumer like we have. For the first time in nearly three decades every single metro area of the United States has seen income rise. Every single area. [applause] the economy of Rural America. I love Rural America. [cheers and applause] thats great. We have all of those cities liquors in the back. We put them in the back corner. I love those beautiful red areas on the map just a little blue here and there. [laughter] [applause] and what we did for you farmers usmca we got out of the horrible nafta it is like tremendous day and night and then deal with china 50 billion worth of purchases i think the farmer that 50 billion, the highest ever was 16 billion the biggest purchase in the year was 16. We made it and then the day before the agreement how are we doing with the farmer . Because they suffered not too much because i gave them and nobody else would do that we bought china out of the tariffs with a lot left over that wasnt so bad thats why the other president s never did it because they didnt quite get it. But i will say the farmers have 20 billion and said make it 50. One. 5billion people. They said no no no i said what does it matter to you . Anyway they agreed to do it so instead of 20 billion the highest ever was 16 million now 50 billion and am a people say sir, the American Farmer will not be able to produce that much i said trust me they will produce that much. [applause] i said tell them to go buy more land they get bigger tractors. Assuming they get approval. [laughter] the farmers were so incredible when the cnn of the world you can see them looking for someone to speak negatively. China is very smart they pull back almost anything the farmers were hurt and then we started to help out with money from china. But frankly it was a tremendous thing actually but the farmers never said anything bad. Its terrible and that there is some suffering going on but its like an operation. And the American Farmer almost anybody they tried to stick the microphone what you think of the horrible thing that President Trump is in a trade war with china . They say sir it is painful for the should of been done 20 years ago. Then cnn then they put in front of somebody else and then they say are you disappointed . They had 12 weeks ago. I think they convinced cnn to say bad news about me just ten incredible women and convince them you are women that voted for President Trump last time. Who will you vote for this time . All of them say trump. [applause] what . That was incredible. [applause] four more years. [chanting] this is not supposed to be a political rally. [laughter] i dont like talking politics. We are talking the economy and Rural America. I dont like talking politics this is a wild group you have here. But its a great group of peopl people. You can feel that we have a great group of people and i appreciated the economy of Rural America 30 times faster under my administration 30 times and thats not an exaggeration if it is you will read about it tomorrow. [laughter] they will give me a pinocchio. They have to get it somewhere but 30 times sounds like a lot but they are doing great the most prosperous economy in most Inclusive Society ever to exist under the massive tax cuts governors across the country have designated distressed communities as Opportunity Zones and neighborhoods have been revitalized. [applause] the Opportunity Zone senator scott from South Carolina with the opportunities i dont think theres been anything like it and areas that have not seen investment in 40 years people putting tremendous amount sometimes they say rich people are putting money into creating jobs nobody has seen anything like it may be because the economy is so good so what has been very unusual and then the government comes in with massive subsidies this is where people are investing in areas and it is a tremendous success but one day they will it is one of the great successes also Workforce Development those that have committed to providing new jobs for 15 million americans we had a great people get jobs. And starting off with 500,000 jobs and did the 500,000 with the first week that is the a lot so many of the Great Companies like Johnson Johnson one had 1 Million People and government is in no position they have nowhere to begin is just another program. [laughter] so you just cant do that it is very specific one of the problems that we have is we have tremendous amounts of Companies Going back to the United States. [applause] and in many cases they cannot get help taking people that did not have jobs or specifically training in the state of the Union Address i called on congress to support my plan to offer that education but when i went to school and then to strip it blindfolded that it was the most incredible thing and that was extraordinary and doing things that are just as important and high paying jobs they are high paying jobs. [applause] and i love the name vocational school. Know they train for cars and plumbing and all the things it was incredible now they call them junior colleges you really dont know what that means. So we are getting back to the word vocational that is important that is something i would be very proud of also people have that tremendous ability and we dont allow them to use it we want to help every american have cuttingedge skills that they need for the jobs for today and tomorrow to put more money in american pockets with regulatory reductions and with those regulations cutting those on one of the most exciting things that happened so lets put up windmills all over your community windmills all over the place and solar powers one panels to power all these factories cutting regulation on American Energy massively driving down Energy Prices you can see that happening in the community they dont allow that to happen which in one case new york is an example with the jobs of the pipeline very very high Energy Prices we could cut them in new york and new england by half and we are fighting the very hard we would be successfu successful. We would cut the prices down by half its very on thing for the rest of the country the American Energy revolution has an average of 2500 per year now we have more Energy Independence. How nice is that . [applause] Energy Independence thats why you dont see the ships going out to the straits what happened to the usa ships . But we are Energy Independent with the largest producer of energy by far. [applause] and the keystone xl pipeline we approved and the Dakota Access pipeline i did that in my first week 48000 jobs were more importantly to take it under the soil nobody even sees it as opposed to trains and other things that can happen but with us today is the commissioner from lee county new mexico i hear we will win new mexico. Rebecca please come forward a little bit of what is happening with the energy boom and your state is at the forefront if we dont win it i wont say that. Im only kidding. Please. And the remarks thank you to the county new mexico your agenda is helping us on the drilling permits we see a much healthier america be Energy Independent in december 2016 right before you ca