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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, but six months after that. >> significant headlines from house speaker paul ryan saying that tomorrow ...

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 hope that we'll be able to pass this tomorrow. bottom line is this, we are going to take action to k...

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, she's talked about interim measures and the court case is the key thing for us. you've got to change the law so that we can make sure that custody stays at dhs. that's why we're voting on this tomorrow. >> first of all, would you entertain a narrow emergency bill that would affect families? >> we're trying to pass this legislation right now. this is very good, compromise legislation that not only solves the child separat...

An exclusive -- under 2 years old? >> let's just make it clear. we don't 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 let's look at what's 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 securing the border and keeping families together. that's ridiculous. it's a ridiculous choice. to...