All of our kids are hard workers, right . They work, and we love to see it, and theyre doing a terrific job for our country. Ive come to the great city of pittsburgh to stand with people, and those people are incredible workers, and to show the world that america is back, and that we are coming back bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and were making our own product again, and were opening up our factories again. [cheers and applause] i mean, you take a look at whats going on where toyota is coming in and the other day you saw chrysler announce theyre moving from mexico back to michigan. You dont hear that too often. [cheers and applause] with a big, big, monster factory. Going to spend a lot of money. A the center of americas resurgence are the massive tax cuts that i just signed into law, and its also reform, but i usually just say tax cuts. People dont want to hear about the reform. Believe me, the reform is very important, we dont have to go into it. But the tax cuts are the most significant tax cut, most significant reform in American History with tremendous tax relief for working families, for Small Businesses, for big businesses that produce jobs, for just about everybody. Tremendous numbers, and youre already seeing whats happening. Youre seeing whats going on. The signs of americas comeback can be seen at Companies Like this one, which just had its most successful year in 35year history. Congratulations. Good job. [applause] and i just learned from the powers that be that h and k equipment will be making a 2. 7 million Capital Investment thanks to the new tax cuts. I appreciate that. And the workers appreciate that. [applause] doing great, great job, great equipment. That means more growth and ultimately it means more jobs. So congratulations. We have created nearly 2. 2 million jobs since the election. [cheers and applause] the Unemployment Rate is at now an 18year low. I would say 17 years, now it just lifted to 18 years. The number of americans applying for Unemployment Benefits just hit a 45year low. [cheers and applause] something im really proud of. Because ive been saying it. What do you have to lose . Africanamerican unemployment is at its lowest level ever recorded. [applause] female unemployment is at the lowest level in 17 years. [applause] hispanicamerican unemployment has hit its alltime lows. [applause] lowest ever. Pensions and retirement accounts are surging in value as the stock market smashes one record high after another. How many people have 401 k s here . [cheers] youre brilliant investors. [laughter] ive had people come up. Sir, my wife thinks im the most brilliant investor because i made 42 in the last ten months, and thats pretty good. But people are happy. Anybody unhappy with the 401 k . I dont think so, right . Wow. We can keep it like this, were going to win a lot of elections, that, i can tell you. Its something. No, its something. [applause] its the economy, stupid did you ever hear that one . Its the economy. It is indeed. As soon as really a few weeks from now millions of American Workers will be seeing the signs of americas comeback in their paychecks, in february. Very simply, your paychecks will be much bigger because under our tax cuts, you will be keeping more of your hardearned money. We are doubling the child tax credit, increasing the refundable credit by 40 . 40. Not 14. 40. And we are making the child credit available to more families than ever before. Not even close. When we began our push for tax cuts, i promised that our bill would result in more jobs, higher wages and tremendous relief for middleclass families, and that is exactly what we have delivered. Even i never knew how big it would be, its much bigger, and you see it, than anybody anticipated. We kept our promise. In pennsylvania alone, families will see a tax cut of about 11 billion just this year alone. [cheers and applause] thats pretty good. Thats pretty good. A typical family of four earning 75,000 will see an income tax cut of more than 2,000 a year. This is like a 2,000 raise, slashing their income tax bill in half. Many will save much more than that. Ken wilson is a great example. Wheres ken . Ken wilson. The legendary ken wilson. Hi, ken. Come on over here where we see you, ken. You got to be happy with this. Is ken doing a good job . Kens doing a good job. Everybody knows ken. Come on up here. Ken, come on. If you can make it. Hell figure out how to get that thing open. If he cant do it, nobody can, right . Thats what he does, works on machinery all the time. Ken joined h k 14 years ago as a mechanic and worked his way up to project foreman. Because of our tax cuts, ken will save almost 2,200 in income taxes. So ken, you just got a 2,200 raise, huh . [applause] and if i had a head of hair like that, i really would have been, i would have been president years ago, ken years ago [applause] but weve nearly doubled the amount of income tax at the rate of zero. So ken, youve seen a big difference . Absolutely. Come here, thank you, man, you said just the right thing. Say something to your workers. Its not just me, its everybody as a whole. This company is an incredible company. We work with a bunch of great people. Everybody pulled together this week and pulled this off. It was a sight to see. Its something to always remember here. Thank everybody, obviously, thank you, mr. Trump. Thank you. Thank you, ken. [applause] he did good he didnt know about that. He didnt know at all about that, right, ken . Good job. [applause] and because we substantially reduced tax rates on american companies, economists estimate that annual Household Income will rise by an average of 4,000. Think of that. More than 2 million American Workers have already received a tax cut bonus from their employerss, pay raises, more money for retirement. Checks as high as 2,000 or more all because of our tax cuts and it hasnt even been a month since i signed the bill. Its turned out to be much bigger than we all thought. Even the people that did it, right, gary . And right, all of the congressmen that voted for and fought so hard. Nobody had had any idea. One thing we didnt project in a positive way, nobody thought that the companies were going to step up and pay all of these great bonuses to people. At t started it, but they came up and paid all of these bonuses. A florida Software Company spillex, announced 1,000 tax cut bonus for workforces. Apple Just Announced they are giving their employees tax cut bonuses worth 2,500 each and because of business tax reforms, apple has Just Announced that they are bringing 3 350 billion and putting it into investment into our country. 350 billion. [cheers and applause] thats a lot. And when i heard the news yesterday and tim cook is a great guy, the head of apple. And when i heard the news, i heard 350 billion, i said you mean 350 million, thats going to be a beautiful plant. They said no, its 350 billion, and i just called tim cook and i thanked him, but i dont imagine theres ever been an investment that big in this country by a company, and just think of what that means. And theyre going to build plants, and i think some of you remember. I said, i will not consider our Economic Situation complete until we get apple to Start Building some of those massive plants in the united states. Theyre going to build plants. Theyre going to build a big campus. Theyre really going to town. We want to thank apple. 350 billion. All right . [cheers and applause] pretty good. Here in the great commonwealth of pennsylvania, thousands of workers have already received tax cut bonuses thanks to employers like comcast, next year bank, american airlines, Pnc Financial, names im very familiar with. One of the hardworking pennsylvanians is kevin hotus. A marine corps veteran who received a bronze star and purple heart for Courageous Service during three tours in iraq, and a great proud person. Wheres kevin . Where is kevin . [applause] kevin . He kept that hand out, he didnt want to come up and speak. Thank you, kevin. He started working for comcast in 2016, and last week he received a thousand dollar bonus check, thanks to our tax cuts. Right out of comcast, right into his bank. Now hes taking his family on a welldeserved vacation, kevin, to visit his grandparents in florida, right . Thank you, kevin. [applause] see you in florida. [applause] i want to thank you for your service, for your patriotism, and congratulations for the bonus. Its really great. Millions of people. Not only are we already seeing the benefits of higher wages and bigger salaries, much bigger salaries, but were also seeing the creation, very importantly to me, of new jobs, pete oconnor owns a Personnel Company called carol harris staffing, right here in pittsburgh. Pete says that businesses of all kinds are seeing increased demand just recently and hiring more and more workers and its only really great news, not only for pete, its great news for all of the people in pittsburgh, for the citizens of pennsylvania, and americans all across our country. Wheres pete, pete . Thank you, pete. You seeing a big difference, right . Big difference . Big difference. Were putting america back to work and ensuring the forgotten men and women of our country are never, ever forgotten again. Remember . The deplorables. [laughter] the deplorables. Were all deplorables. Who would have thought that was going to turn into a landslide, right . Who would have thought that was going to turn in. That was not a good phrase that she used. Some things youd like to have back. [laughter] and the good news keeps pouring. In americanss monthly utility bills are going down because major electric companies have announced they will pass their savings from taxes onto their customers. Tremendous reduction and Certain Companies and Peoples Energy costs. That means were not only seeing higher wages but lower energy bills, and thats because of the tax cuts. But its also because of the regulation cuts. When i spoke to the folks in the plant, they said the biggest thing is whats happened is regulations, cutting of the regulations, and we have regulations, but theyre fair and theyre reasonable, and theyre actually just as stringent, but you go to one group for an okay, you dont have to get it 19 different times or seven times or go to different agencies. Its within the realm of reasonable and thats why people are opening up, theyre expanding and theyre hiring more people. Our tax bill also took a historic step to restore health care freedom. No longer will the federal government punish you for fines if you cant afford an obamacaremandated health plan because we repealed obamacares cruel, it was cruel, individual mandate, where you were supposed to go out [cheers and applause] and you pay in order not to have to buy health care. Should have been rejected by a lot of people, including the courts, surprisingly. But we werent able to repeal it. We got rid of the individual mandate, and you will see what that means. It is such a big factor for so many people. It was so unfair. Its gone. Weve also opened up anwr in alaska for energy exploration. [cheers and applause] creating even more jobs and more and more energy savings, but thats the biggest one. Trying to do that since ronald reagan. For over 40 years, trying to open anwr, we got it open. Theres never been a better time to hire in america, to invest in america and to believe in the American Dream than right now. [cheers and applause] there is no limit to what we can achieve when we set free the dreams of our incredible people. Youre incredible people. Americans crossed oceans, tamed the wilderness, dug out the panama canal and launched a man onto the face of the moon. American hands and grit poured the concrete in our highways and forged the steel in our skyscrapers. Americans built the hoover dam. The magnificent hoover dam, if youve ever seen it. The empire state building, they built it in one year, nobody knows that. One year. Its actually less than one year. The empire state building. We won two world wars. Americans do anything, build anything is create anything as long as we have pride in our country. Confidence in our values. And respect for our Great American flag. [cheers and applause] right . Because america doesnt belong to the washington power brokers. It belongs to you. And i think weve taught them that. Doesnt mean its easy. It doesnt mean its easy. Its nasty in washington, but step by step by step, just keep going, right . Going. It is a nasty place. Ooh but were getting it. Nobody thought we were going to have this kind of success so quickly. Thank you, darling. It belongs to the American People with our destiny in our hands. America will once again be a nation that thinks big, dreams bigger, and always reaches for the stars. Nothing will keep this incredible nation of ours down. Nothing will stop us from reaching the highest peaks. Because nothing is stronger than the strength and will and spirit of the American People. You are the ones who will shape americas destiny, especially all of these beautiful young people in the front. You are the ones who will restore our prosperity. And you are the ones who are making America Great again. [cheers and applause] so as many of you know, thats what i talked about, make America Great again. America first. We put America First now. Were doing trade deals. Were doing a lot of things that i said were going to be doing. Its not easy. These other countries have become very, very spoiled with taking advantage of us, but take advantage of us no longer because now we want their country for them, it should be their country first, but for us, its America First. Thats the way it is. [cheers and applause] so i want to thank the people of the great, great, great state of pennsylvania. You remember that big night on november 8. [cheers and applause] donald trump has won the state of pennsylvania [cheers and applause] right . And i want to thank the people in this room. You are my friends. You are truly great, great people, and you are making america tick. You are really very special. Thank you all for being here, thank you all, god bless you all. Thank you, thank you very much, thank you. Liz absolutely thrilled crowd in pennsylvania, President Trump touting the benefits of the gops tax reform plan at h k equipment in coraopolis, pennsylvania. This Company Sells and leases new and used industrial cleaning equipment, lift trucks, things like forklifts in the Greater Pittsburgh area. H k will make a 2. 7 billion investment in new equipment and an investment that it can write off thanks to the new tax law. So since the tax law was signed, if you tally up the bonus and hiring announcements in the state of pennsylvania alone, for example, Pnc Financial and comcast, the president says the keystone state will get an 11 billion economic boost. This is just real hard evidence that companies are turning around and saying were in, were going to share this money. Jeff flock is in coraopolis right there. Jeff, the president said hes surprised by how dramatically Corporate America has stepped up to share the wealth of the big tax cuts it anticipates its going to get . Reporter you are absolutely right, liz, he was on message. I didnt think it was going to have this much of a direct impact. As the president goes down now and starts to shake hands on the stage, hes brought up all of the congressional leaders as well as rick seccone, the fellow who aspires to be in the u. S. Congress. There was a little mixed message with the president tweeting, im coming to pennsylvania to support rick seccone, people think it was a political rally. He was dead on message and made it clear as well as Sarah Sanders earlier as well, this is about the economy, stupid or not stupid. And the president said as much using those exact words. Were here to talk about the economic benefits of the American Public based on our administrations tax and economic policies and he was dead on that message, and produced several people who have had direct personal impact. Folks on the production line that have, you know, gotten boost in their paychecks and different people in the local community who have hired more workers. This was a good one, he stayed right on it. We speculated earlier, no one can dispute the president s success with the economy, but some of the other things that have happened have caused people perhaps, at least we thought would happen in the other elections that have gone against republicans, but he was dead on the economy now. He sticks to that one, hes going to make a lot of people happy, liz. Liz in fact, listen to what he said specifically, interestingly enough, jeff, quoting. James carville, the democratic strategist for al gore and bill clinton. He said its the economy, stupid. By the way, meet the man who owns the company the president just toured. We do need to get to capitol hill. The house is deebeding funding, the government, right now, past fridays midnight deadline and hoping to pass a continuing resolution that would extend government funding until february 16 and lock in Childrens HealthInsurance Program for six years, but folks, there has been a big bit of news in just the last hour. Rand paul, in the senate is saying hes out. He will give whatever the house sends to him a thumbsdown. That makes two senators, rand paul and Lindsey Graham, who say they will now be no votes on the stopgap budget measure that would avert a Government Shutdown in less than 33 hours, folks. Republican senator Lindsey Graham, and kansas senator rand paul told fox news Harris F