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ladies and gentlemen the President of the United States accompanied by the vice president of the United States and the United States Trade Representative well thank you very much such beautiful music such talented musicians and we appreciate it very much we have a tremendous we have a tremendous list of people here today in fact so long that if I announced every name would be here for about three hours and we have to get back to business everybody does please sit down please but I want to thank everybody for coming coming to the White House on this very momentous historic and joyous occasion it's been a long time everybody said this was a deal that could not be done too complicated too big couldn't be done we got it done and today we're finally ending the NAFTA nightmare and signing into law the brand new US Mexico Canada agreement very special very very special the u.s. MCA is the largest fairest most balanced and modern trade agreement ever achieved it has never been anything like it other countries are now looking at it but they can't be a border like that because believe it or not that is by far the biggest border anywhere in the world in terms of economy in terms of people there's nothing even close this is a colossal victory for our farmers ranchers energy workers factory workers and American workers in all 50 states and you could almost say beyond because it's all beyond this is all over the world even though it's at one beautiful border we're by the way a very major powerful wall is right now being built ok I don't know if I should say that at this particular reading I know last night it got a very big hand today they're a little bit like are we supposed to clap now the u.s. MCA is estimated to add another 1.2 percent to our GDP and create countless new American jobs it will make our blue collar boom which is beyond anybody's expectation even bigger stronger and more extraordinary delivering massive gains for the loyal citizens of our for the first time in American history we have replaced a disastrous trade deal that rewarded outsourcing with a truly fair and reciprocal trade deal that will keep jobs wealth and growth right here in America and in a true sense it's also a partnership with Mexico and Canada and ourselves against the world it's really a trade partnership if you look at it that way and it's a day of great celebration in all three countries I want to thank our amazing vice president Mike Pence who helped us so much with the deal and our sincerest appreciation to ambassador Robert light hyzer and Jared Kushner and Steve minuchin and all of these incredible people for the job you've done like I said they said it couldn't be done welcome also to many members of Congress who were key to getting the deal done including Senator Grassley worse Chuck where's Chuck oh oh he was brutal he would call me he would say how is it going how is it going and with Chuck you just don't mess around you said it we'll get it done don't worry Thank You senator very much and Pat Roberts martha mcsalley and i want to just if i could mention because we do have some incredible people that work so hard and senators and maybe I'm being just nice to him because I want their vote does that make sense I don't want to leave anybody out hey congressman I already got your vote 196 to nothing to hell with you I think I have to mention some senators that are here but Marcia Blackman who's been so suit where's Marsha Blackburn Marcia great Marsha Blackburn great state of Tennessee Roy Blount Thank You Roy Thank You Roy john Boozman thank you John thank you very much great job Mike Braun he's become a big fixture on television and doing a great job Shelley Moore Capito thank you West Virginia great place Senator Bill Cassidy senator thank you very much John Cornyn thank you John your poll numbers are looking good John very very good you'll have to worry about bado either do you jet a great young gentleman and he's been with us right from the beginning Senator Tom cotton where's Tom thank you tom thank you Tom Kevin Cramer thank you Kevin Ted Cruz boy has he been where is Ted boy oh boy and he's dying to get back there and ask those questions I know he said they'd let me out of here president I want to ask those questions he's got some beauties I'll bet Thank You Ted for everything you've been incredible Steve Daines my friend from the beginning thank you Steve Joni Ernst Joni Ernst that was a team the tag team with Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst it was impossible I just say just tell him I'm not in please senator Deb Fischer terrific person terrific person Lindsey Graham where's Lindsey he may be having a news conference right now he's working on something he said I'm going over to a news conference I said you know what I'd rather have you at the news conference don't worry we'll take care of it a young brilliant guy who's done incredibly well and respected by everybody Senator Josh Holley Josh I think he's another one he doesn't want to come over here right now where's John Hoeven John you've been so great thank you John John Hoeven Senator James Lankford he is a terrific person we're just together on a very special day right James Kelly Loffler Kelly congratulations Kelly really great they already like you a lot that's what the word is Thank You Kelly martha mcsalley good Martha great Jerry Moran Jerry thank you Jerry did a great job but a lot of in a lot of different ways and another one is James rish James fantastic job you do and Mike rounds where's Mike Mike thank you he's always there Mike he's fantastic Tim Scott mr. opportunity's own and I think he's over there fighting he say just read the transcripts that's what he's saying he's great thom tillis who's doing pretty well is what I'm understanding thom tillis where's Tom yup and Roger wicker by the way is there anybody Thank You Roger Roger is there anybody I didn't introduce I would like to apologize immediately where's Rick where's Rick he's been one of the greats oh I figured he was over there Rick what are you why are you not over there Rick Rick Scott has been so incredible great governor of Florida a great great governor now he's a great senator thank you very much the rest of you I don't have to bother with I'm sure you know the way it works in life right right Ivanka that's the way it works Italy trying to teach her but she could actually teach me well I want to really thank all of those people and also with us is Kevin McCarthy and Kevin Brady and Mike Conaway and Vern Buchanan and Steve Scalise they've been incredible from day one and literally a hundred other wonderful congressmen and women and we appreciate you being here and Kevin congratulations on your big victory yesterday that was incredible and he's also a tremendous fundraiser not that that matters we don't even think about that but that was a big big victory you had yesterday thank you very much also here are many of the state and local leaders including a really good friend of mine somebody that is going to get that pipeline through and approved and finished Pete Ricketts of Nebraska whispy Pete thank you very much and a special man and a very popular governor and a very capable governor has done an incredible job and he's been a tremendous supporter of all of us Greg Abbott of Texas thank you Greg great job great job you do we're very grateful for the close partnership in cooperation with Prime Minister Trudeau and for our incredible friendship and the relationship that we've developed with President Lopez Obrador we're honored to be joined by acting ambassador Hillman from Canada ambassador Barcena of Mexico Mexican undersecretary say awed a Mexican Minister of Economy Marquez and Mexican Foreign Minister a broad they were really great people we got to know him very well this was a long negotiation complex spent a lot of time with him thank you very much for being here and I want to say that I have our great cabinet right up here but I'm not sure I don't know Ted should I introduce the cabinet you want to get back right let's forget it my cabinet is great every one of them every one of them they're fantastic they are fantastic and we appreciate it very much you've done a great job getting good credits for what you're doing and we really appreciate it really fantastic after NAFTA's adoption more than 25 years ago the United States lost nearly 1/4 of all of its manufacturing jobs including more than one in five vehicle manufacturing jobs think of that one in five jobs lost so needlessly thousands of factories were shuttered millions of manufacturing jobs were destroyed and entire communities were devastated from Ohio to Pennsylvania Michigan to Maine and California to North Carolina devastated two decades of politicians ran for office vowing to replace the NAFTA and this was a catastrophe the nafta catastrophe yet once elected they never even tried they never even gave it a shot they sold out but I'm not like those other politicians I guess in many ways I keep my promises that I'm fighting for the American worker and we're all fighting for the American worker everybody here is fighting for the American worker this agreement is a tremendous breakthrough for American agriculture Canada will finally provide greater access for American dairy the Canada's opening up it will grow annual exports to our neighbours by an estimated three hundred and fifteen million dollars poultry exports to Canada are expected to rise by at least 50% an egg export could increase by 500 percent where is the Canadian folks where are they you guys did a good job on us before this deal I'll tell you that's Canada was very tough but they're good they're our friends so we appreciate it very importantly Canada will finally give fair treatment to American grown wheat the u.s. MCA is also a massive win for American manufacturers and auto workers under NAFTA companies were given huge incentives to produce cars in foreign countries and ship them to America tax-free no tax no nothing we lost our jobs we closed our factories and other countries built our cars but we've changed that and we're now setting records the u.s. MCA closes these terrible loopholes and includes strong provisions to ensure that new cars are fashioned by American hands that's a fancy word of saying built and manufactured with a American labor we have some of the great labor leaders here right now I think James Hoffa where's James Hoffa James thank you very much James thank you James very much it's great fiat-chrysler is already investing 4.5 billion dollars in creating 6500 new jobs in Michigan and opening up the first new Detroit plant in more than 30 years and we have a lot of them happening Ford is putting in 1.5 billion dollars in creating 3,000 new jobs while GM is investing 2.2 billion dollars in creating 2,200 new jobs in Michigan to build vehicles of the future and I believe we have the chairman and president and the bosses of those two companies please Mary where's Mary Mary Barra thank you very much and Ford thank you very much we appreciate it what a great job please stand come on for that kind of money anything over two billion you're allowed to stand anything over two billion otherwise we don't have you stand thank you thank you both very much steel dynamics is building a 1.9 billion dollar flat rolled steel mill near Corpus Christi and international automakers are pouring twenty five billion dollars into the United States creating 50,000 new American jobs at a minimum they are all investing in a future where we buy hire and drive American cars again I like that it's very important part of the deal Mexico and Canada have agreed to new labor protections that my administration negotiated the u.s. MCA is the first trade deal in nearly two decades endorsed by the AF of l-cio thank you very much great that was good thank you the u.s. MCA contains critical protections for intellectual property including trade secrets digital services and financial services it establishes new standards and safeguards protecting the environment and currency still he's something that has been on my mind for a lot of years long before I got here what they've done to us with currency is crazy it includes protections for american-made fibers yarns and fabrics boosting the US textile industry by numbers that you won't even believe you'll see them soon this is a cutting-edge state-of-the-art agreement that protects defends and serves the great people of our country thanks to our Pro worker pro-american economic policies unemployment is at the lowest level in more than 50 years it's great and we've created in a very short period of time a number that nobody would have believed if I ever said it during the campaign they wouldn't have believed the estimate was 2 million the most you could do was 2 million we've created over 7 million new jobs up until this point over 7 million new jobs nobody would have believed that real median household income is now the highest level ever recorded history of our country ever recorded more Americans are working today that have ever worked in the history of our country we're up to almost a hundred and sixty million people working we've never even come close to a number like that we have the hottest economy on earth other countries come to see me in the Oval Office and the first thing they say is what are you doing with your economy they try to copy us many of copied us and it hasn't worked so well for them to put it mildly weird we are doing better than any country anywhere in the world and it's not even close millions of extraordinary men and women strengthen our country every day in factories and warehouses fields and farms mills and stockyards all across this magnificent land their work and devotion and Drive inspires our people and powers our nation together we're building a glorious future that is raised grown built and made right here in the glorious USA I would now like to invite Vice President pants and ambassador light has had to say a few words it worked very hard in the agreement and I'm just gonna finish off saying that this is something we really put our heart into it's probably the number one reason that I decided to lead this crazy life that I'm leading right now as opposed to that beautiful simple life of luxury that I led before this happened but I love doing it and the reason I love doing it is that nobody in a period of three years has done so much as all of us have nobody there's never been an administration that has done what we've done in the first three years that means we're doing great things for the people of our country and beyond the people of our country and it's a real honor to be involved and to have helped so many people a real honor and it's an honor to have all of you with us thank you very much Mike please say a few words Thank You mr. president mr. president members of the cabinet especially ambassador Bob light Heiser governors members of the Senate members of the House of Representatives leaders from businesses large and small across America and all the hardworking Americans they're here and they're looking on this is a great day for American workers and American farmers because mr. president thanks to your leadership NAFTA ends today and a new era of jobs and growth begins under the USMC a mr. president as a candidate and as our president you said we could get this economy moving again and with the support of the members of Congress gathered here we cut taxes for working families and businesses large and small we rolled back regulation you Unleashed American energy but mr. president you also challenged our party and the American people to think in new ways about International Trade and the American economy is booming as you just said more than seven million jobs created unemployment 250 year low and I know what means most of you is it wages are rising across the board but they're rising most rapidly for hard-working blue-collar Americans mr. president today you'll sign the largest trade deal in American history and today thanks to your leadership we'll leave behind the failed policies of the past and have a new trade deal that will benefit every American as a son of the heartland let me say I couldn't be more grateful for your leadership I saw firsthand h
w NAFTA hollowed out communities caused thousands of factories to close shuttered businesses in communities across my state and across the heartland we saw thousands of jobs go south of the border over a million Americans lost their jobs but thanks to your leadership mr. president those days are over now [Applause] there are so many to thank here members of the House and Senate who stood with us every step of the way that you've acknowledged you've done a great service for the American people let me also thank the governors here and governors around the country and mayor's around the country who stood with this president believing that we could do better as well and mr. president you directed me to travel across this country over the past year I traveled to nearly 20 states I met with farmers and workers and owners of businesses large and small and today I want to give credit to them as well to Americans like Jay and Sue Blanchard of safety signs in Lakeville Minnesota the Don Walker of Magna International in Lancaster Ohio and Doug Freitas of Frida's farms in California it was Americans like them who let their voice be heard and supported your leadership in Congress acted to approve the u.s. MCA this day is theirs as well but finally mr. president on their behalf I want to say thank you to you for having the vision long ago that America could do better than NAFTA I want to thank you mr. president on behalf of all of the American people we're simply keeping your word for fighting for the Forgotten men and women of this country every day as you do for driving a hard bargain for never letting up until we got a deal that put American jobs and American workers first so we're here today because of great allies in Congress and state houses in city halls we're here today because the American people step forward and demand it better but I want to say with a grateful heart that we're here mostly because we have a president who will always put America first Thank You mr. president and congratulations mr. president the president was elected in large part on his promise to change the direction of US trade policy a policy that for too long had led to exploding trade deficits the outsourcing of US jobs and the brazen theft of American intellectual property for many NAFTA came to symbolize everything that was wrong with that policy the agreement was highly controversial from the start and passed with a narrow majority in the House of Representatives many of those who cast votes in favor came to regret their decision they did so because many of the promises that were made in order to procure their votes came to nothing nafta's weak unenforceable labor side agreement did not raise wages in Mexico the outsourcing fears that prominent NAFTA voices anti-nafta voices came came to nothing and and and the situation got worse later in the decade when China joined the WTO this experienced coloured every subsequent debate over trade policy and nearly every trade agreement after NAFTA passed was an increasingly narrow majority and often along party lines President Trump set out to chart a new course the Trump trade policy is designed to create more manufacturing jobs protect America's competitive advantage in technology and innovation secure greater market access for American businesses farmers ranchers and critically to change the stale politics of trade by creating bipartisan consensus around a new model that works better for all Americans the u.s. MCA achieves each of these goals this great historic agreement is truly the result of extraordinary effort by many many people it is multinational hole of administration and bipartisan it affects every sector thousands of businesses and millions of workers in our economy of course the president was our leader and inspiration and the Vice President was intimately involved in this process in every single step and devoted an enormous amount of his first term to making sure that we succeeded for that I'm very grateful the complexity of this effort is perhaps best shown by the fact that in the early rounds as many as a thousand negotiators from the three countries would be involved we needed experts on agriculture manufacturing automobiles banking telecommunications labor environment and I could go on and on I would like to thank my negotiating partners from Mexico Secretary Ildefonso Gallardo ambassador Hayes Lucio day as well as the absolutely essential Louise B degrade secretary a marcello Everard as well as secretary Graciela marquez and past and present and back Gutierrez and Barcena from Mexico on the Canadian side I would like to thank Deputy Prime Minister and good friend Chrystia Freeland Jerry Butz Katie Telford and Steve refuel and again the ambassadors their past in present McNaughton and Helmand all were critical Mexico and Canada are fortunate to have such impressive public servants I will also personally like to thank the members of Congress Republicans and Democrats who worked so hard on this agreement not just last year but during the course of the negotiations they also were involved every step of the way they made this a bipartisan success I have been in town long enough to know that listing members at a time life like this makes more enemies than friends so I'll only mention that I'm grateful to the leadership of the house the Chairman and ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee and the Finance Committee and of course leader McConnell many others made immense contributions thank you also to congressional staff you were magnificent for two years finally and I apologize for the length of my remarks I want to show my appreciation to the inspiring men and women of USTR as well as the department's of Commerce Agriculture Treasury labor transportation EPA and other agencies that worked so hard these people work tens of thousands of hours for two plus years many going home at two and three o'clock in the morning or not at all chief among the leaders of this effort is my deputy ambassador CJ Mahoney since his confirmation two years ago he has worked continuously on this effort day and night and seven days a week thank you also ambassador Dowd our agriculture negotiating and the long-suffering Jameson Greer who has the unenviable task of being my chief of staff as I said 16 months ago thank you also Jared Kushner my friend and partner for all your work and guidance and support I said before from the heart I mean it again now thank you to the cabinet members who devoted a substantial part of their terms to this effort particularly the secretaries of Treasury commerce agriculture labor and thank you of course Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro the chief negotiator of the US MCA was assistant ustr John Mele he was throughout the one who's responsible for the 350 or so people on our team John is the best example of a career public servant he retires this week and he will be missed in closing let me just say that I mostly want to thank the President of the United States for allowing me to lead this special team for his constant steady leadership and for always being supportive during very difficult times and to congratulate him on his magnificent achievement to do this and to do it under these circumstances is a monumental part of your legacy and I'm happy to be part of it [Applause] hi I'll end where I began the president ran and was elected on replacing NAFTA with an agreement that puts American workers first American farmers ranchers and businesses first that will bring manufacturing back helps service industry workers and raise wages all I can say if you'll pardon the appropriation promise made and three years later promise kept [Applause] great job well with all of the power and wealth and status in front of me I think we would all agree that the people that are by far the most important with us today happen to be standing right behind me [Applause] they're the ones here the workers they're the workers and they're the ones that are gonna benefit most by what we're doing so thank you very much for being thank you thank you and I would like you to remember that two weeks ago we signed another little deal or trade deal with China and we expect to be taking in 250 billion dollars a year in purchases they will be purchasing so much from our farmers I've been saying they have to go out and buy immediately larger tractors and more land I hope they can do it but they the number is the largest number they've ever produced was 16 billion a year I think Chuck we could say that Joanie you would say 16 was the number I called up our great Secretary of Agriculture Sonny who's probably around here someplace I said Sonny what's the biggest number sonny Perdue and he said sir 16 billion is the biggest number I said all right well we're gonna make it up because they were targeted perhaps correctly you know China is negotiating that's why nobody wanted to take it on they said we're gonna target your farmers and every other leader of our country said oh we're gonna pass our farmers were incredible because they said the president is doing the right thing but I said what's the number we're talking about and it was 16 billion and it was 12 billion from the previous year so it was 12 billion and 16 billion and that was it that was the maximum they've ever done so I said you know we have to do we're going to reimburse them and help them with 12 billion for the first year 16 billion same thing for the second year and the farmers got through and they didn't want that nobody wanted to call it a subsidy and it wasn't a subsidy it was really a targeting fee you could call it but our farmers I'll never forget we had him over at the White House in the Cabinet Room 35 farmers and they said sir we don't want any money we just want a level playing field we don't want money and I said you know what I've been president now at that time for two and a half years I said that's the first time anybody's ever said that everybody wants money and they don't care how they get it this is the first time they said we don't want we just won a level playing field they are the most incredible people and when some of the people from the media I'm gonna be very nice today the people from the media went out to the farms and they went out to Iowa and they went to Nebraska they went to all of the different many of the different states and they said what do you think about what the president is doing there all I I don't think I heard one negative no matter who it was no matter which network the farmers would say the president is doing the right thing they should have been done a long time ago I'll never forget it and now the farmers are going to be tremendous beneficiaries in fact when Bob was getting ready to sign the agreement very close we're a few days off and I said what are we getting for the farmers sir we have it up to 20 billion dollars purchase I said make it 50 they said what do you mean make it 50 remember that one Bob I said make it 50 he said sir they can't produce that much I said they'll find a way to do it I think they'll find a way Chuck if they don't find a way I'm gonna be very angry at you okay they'll find a way but it's true we had it down at 20 that's more than they had ever done before I said make it 50 and they're going to I think Johnny's gonna really be terrific I think our relationship has never been better we're very much involved with them right now on the virus that's going around we're working very closely I spoke to President Xi were working very closely with China and honestly I think as tough as this negotiation was I think our relationship with China now might be the best it's been in a long long time and now it's reciprocal before we were being ripped off badly now we have a reciprocal relationship maybe even better than reciprocal for us because we have a long way to go before we get back some of the five hundred billion dollars a year that we were losing for year after year to China so we're very honored by that deal and we're very honored by the u.s. MCA and I want to thank everybody in the audience because almost every one of you indirectly or directly was involved and history is going to show you're gonna be very very proud of what's happening and very proud of what's happening to our country thank you all for being here very much and I'm gonna have the honor of signing the u.s. MCA thank you very much leaders come up cabinet members come up why do we have everybody come up Mick everybody cabinet Jared Ivanka come on up this will be very historic so if you don't senators come on up come on senators come on senators please come up please please come up oh we're gonna take care of the senators the workers understand they get it better than anybody hi fellas great this is great and Bob if we could have some of the folks that worked so hard on the agreement come up from your department come on up come on up some of them are they just didn't stop they worked long hours thank you very much okay thank you very much thank you Kevin Thank You Roger okay thank you very much [Applause] [Applause]
