Discuss some of his legislative goals. Afterwards, democrats reacted to what happened during the meeting. Before the lawmakers met, President Trump talked about some of the policy items he would like to work on. Thank you very much. Im pleased to welcome this Bipartisan Group of democrats and republican lawmakers to the white house. More and more were trying to work things out together. Thats a positive thing and its good for the republicans and good for the democrats. And this group knows that very well. Whether we can do the incredible things that were doing and working in a bipartisan fashion, obviously, would be would be a positive. And i think something, tom, that we all feel good about. I want to thank tom reed. Hes been a friend of mine for a long time and he was there right at the beginning when it wasnt very fashionable, right . And i really appreciate it. And Josh Gottheimer for helping to organize this very important gathering. I think its really the whole concept of what were trying to do is very, very important. Inspired by the example of our own citizens, we should be able to come together to make government work for the people. Thats why i was elected. Thats why i ran. And to provide jobs and opportunity to millions of struggling families. This includes tax reform that is projobs, progrowth, profamily, and proamericans. Its very simple. Its all proamerican. We have four principles for tax reform. Make the tax code simple and fair. Cut taxes substantially. Itll be the largest tax decrease in the history of our country for the middle class. Encourage companies to hire and grow in america. And by doing that, were going to have to reduce the taxes for companies. Right now were at 35 and much higher when you add state taxes in. And china is at 15 . Then we wonder why are we not competing well against china. So theyre at 15 and were at 35 plus. And that doesnt work. And bring back trillions of dollars. We have trillions of dollars overseas that well bring back and well bring them back quickly. So this is money that josh and tom and everybody in this room can tell you everybodys agreed to bring it back for years, but it never gets done. So were putting it down as part of our tax proposal. Another bipartisan project that is urgently needed is infrastructure. And infrastructure investment. For decades now washington has allowed our infrastructure to fall into a state of total decay and disrepair. And its time now to build new roads, new bridges, airports, tunnels, highways, and railways all across our great land. When we set aside our differences, and its amazing sometimes how little our differences are, we put our country and the citizens of our country first. And thats what this is all about. So we want to have a great new tax cut and tax reform simplification and massive cuts and we want to get our country working again and competing again worldwide. And therell be nothing that can stop us. On top of that well be discussing probably a little bit of health care because i know some informations come to light. So well be discussing because ultimately while we have some democrats, i think i can speak for the republicans generally, but we do want to do something powerfully with respect to obamacare. It has not worked. The rates are going through the roof. The numbers that you look at no matter where you go, no matter where you look, health care is failing in our country. And were going to get a change and were going to get a change fast. Infrastructure well be talking about. And well also probably be talking about daca. Because we dont want to forget daca. And its already been a week and a half and people dont talk about it as much. We want to see if we can do something with regard to immigration, with regard to the 800,000 people that are now you young people. Theyre not children anymore. Theyre young people. We want to see if we can do something in a bipartisan fashion so we can solve the daca problem and other immigration problems. So well be discussing that today. And then tonight im having dinner with senator schumer and nancy pelosi. And well continue some discussion. We have a lot of things in the fire. But i think right now first and foremost so that we can compete against and especially in the light we had two massive hurricanes the likes of which i guess our country has never seen. I dont think theyve ever seen. One was the biggest ever in water and the other was the biggest ever in wind. You put them together and we have devastation in texas and in florida. And other parts of our country, by the way. We continue to handle them well, but they were very big and very powerful. And it was very unfortunate. But because of that, more than ever, we now need great tax reform and great tax cuts. So we are here as a group bipartisan to try and see what we can come up with. Thank you all for much. I appreciate it. Conservatives are skeptical of this new deal with democrats. Why have leader pelosi and senator schumer over tonight . Whats your message . Well, im a conservative and i will tell you im not skeptical. I think if we can do things in a bipartisan matter, thatll be great. It might not work out in which case well try to do them without. But i think if we can do in a bipartisan manner, if you look at some of the greatest legislation ever passed, it was done on a bipartisan manner. And so thats what were going to give it a shot. Right, tom . And well see what we can do. It works out, great. If it doesnt work out, great. Hopefully we can do it as republicans. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Were looking at a 15 rate. And we want a 15 rate because that would bring us low not by any means the lowest, but it would bring us to a level where china and other countries are. And we will be able to compete with anybody. Nobody will be able to touch us. So we would like to see 15 . Okay . Thank you very much, everybody. And by the way, lower