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Us what they have to go through to keep us safe, the support and resources they need to defend our borders, protect our homeland, and to keep America safe. I want to thank Speaker Mike Johnson. He's incredible. Where is Mike Johnson? Mike, you're doing an incredible job. You have not a big majority. Rather have 40 or 50. I don't think you'd know what to do. We have He'd say, 'What are we doing?' He's done an amazing job. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Todd is up, and I hear he's got tremendous support in the Senate. And he's got tremendous support everywhere, actually. He's doing a fantastic job. And Secretary of Homeland Security Mark Wayne, where is Mark Wayne? He gave up his Senate seat. He had a guaranteed seat for the next 40 to 50 years.

And he gave it up to be Homeland Security cuz he just wanted to Yep. They're amazing. Amazing. As well as Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, who's here, I think. And John is You're incredible. From day one we got along, right? First day I met him. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, one of the bravest people. And what he went through is incredible, incredible. And he's I actually think he looks better now than he did.

Oh, is it tonight? And House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who is uh an unbelievable leader, actually. He's just so highly respected, and he's in Minnesota, and he's ripping them because he knows what's going on. I mean, it's uh Uh you have your chance now, Tom, cuz people have really found out about it. So, I want to I want to thank you for the No, but he's working with our with our people. They look like Eliot Ness. It looks like Eliot Ness and the gang up there, right? They're finding billions of dollars of fraud. And Tom Emmer is really helping us. Thanks, Tom.

And thanks as well to Senators Lindsey Graham, who had a big victory last night. He won by a lot. And no runoff, no nothing. Had a lot of very capable people running against him, and he just blew them away. So, Lindsey Graham, congratulations. And Chuck Grassley, Rand Paul was here. Hi, Rand Paul. Oh, boy, it's nice to have Rand.

It's a good thing to have Rand. Do you Do you know what's important? Eric Schmitt has been an incredible senator. Wherever you may be. Yeah, he's tall enough. He's usually not too hard to find. And Bernie Moreno. Is Bernie here?

Where's Bernie? Hi, Bernie. What a job, right?

So, how's the race going in Ohio?

So. Well, I love Ohio. We won by a lot. But you ran an incredible race. It was

They weren't giving him a big chance, and he ended up winning quite easily, right? So, it's you. It was great. We're also pleased to be joined by Representatives Lisa McClain, Jodey Arrington, and uh Jodey, where's Jodey?

You're doing a great job, Jodey.

Garbarino, Laurel Lee, thank you. Riley Moore, a newcomer who's doing really well. Guy Reschenthaler, Derrick Van Orden, as well as Angel Sister, Chris Stewart, you know that.

Fantastic. And we appreciate it. Chris, we appreciate it.

For more than Thank you very much. Appreciate it being here. Gone through a lot. For more than 100 days, congressional Democrats tried to block all funding for the Department of Homeland Security in a reprehensible attempt to throw open the borders of the United States of America. They want to drag us straight back to chaos and crime and the crooked Joe Biden administration, one of the most corrupt administrations, probably the most corrupt ever. Nobody's ever seen anything like it, and we're not going to let them do that. I have to say that Washington just had some crime numbers out, and it's the lowest number best crime numbers that we've had, they say, in 58 years. Uh so, we went from being a crime-ridden city, our capital, being a crime-ridden place to being uh among the safest cities in the country. I'm so happy, and you're you're big beneficiaries because most of you live here, you hear all the time, the press, the media, and even actually some of the media, a couple of people that I would not suspect, couple of people truly treat me unfairly, but they came up and they thanked me because it's so much We have a safe city now. Uh we also have a beautiful city. We had 22 fountains. Uh every one of them didn't work. One of them uh the the Probably the best was one that hasn't worked for 50 years. That was about the the best. They've all been out of commission for 50 years or more. Can you imagine that? Uh they were graffiti-strewn, grass-strewn, grass growing through the cracks, and they were in terrible shape, and all 22 have now been opened, and the most magnificent possibly of all, the one in front of Union Station is beautiful. You see that? It was all graffiti all over the place. We uh through a lot of work, we got it looking maybe better than it was the day they put it in. But the one that they're all talking about is the almost 2,500 ft long, that's taller than any building in the world, actually. There's no building that's 2,500 ft tall, I don't think. But it's like twice the height of the Empire State Building as an example, and much wider. So, uh we just got that open. Last night we went to do it before July 4th, and it is incredible. It's called uh it was originally called 1922 was built it was called a reflecting pond or the reflecting lake some people called it, but uh it was supposed to be a reflection. It never worked from 1922 because it was stone on the base and no matter what it always leaked cuz you have stone and you have lots of crevices we have nice stone out there, but if you go between the stone it leaks. And uh so it never really worked very well. And it was a bad color was gray. It's concrete and stone so it was gray. And I had the idea along with uh some great people that work for us Doug Bergum was fantastic. His group Greg everybody. And uh we worked very hard. But it was going to cost $400 million and we did it for about $10 million. It was going to take 4 years to build and we did it in like a month month and a half. And we would have had a construction site out there for years. And it wouldn't have worked when they built it. So when they told me what they were going to do I said that's not a good idea. I've built many many many swimming pools as a builder built hundreds of them. And I got one of our contractors I had them take a look. And he said oh we can do a great job if you could just give us a decent surface the surface was it so we sandblasted the surface. We fumigated it. We took out 11 uh dumpsters big dumpsters full of garbage. It was all garbage through and some of the garbage was there for years. It was all disgusting and it it would it smelled. And anyway we took 11 dumpsters of garbage out. It's uh with shovels we had a shovel inside of what's called a a pool or a lake. And uh got it clean we then fumigated it. We then uh sandblasted the entire thing washed it cleaned it scrubbed it sandblasted it. Then we uh gave it a test and we rinsed it out, and we gave them a beautiful surface, and then they put a [clears throat] swimming pool topping, but industrial strength. It's industrial strength. It's used for tanks and lots of other things to hold water. And we worked out the ratios of expansion and contraction, because you know, believe it or not, when you have something that's 2,500 ft long, there's tremendous expansion and Who would think of this? Only person that does it like me. And they have a lot of expansion and contraction. So, when we're putting the surface down, we'd leave areas that can expand and contract a little bit, cuz it expands over a foot and a half. Can you believe it? So, it would have ripped it apart. So, we left areas of expansion and contraction. This we were testing it for 3 weeks, 4 weeks. Works It works great. And we just opened it last night, and people are going wild over it. So, it's going to cost 400 million, and we did it for 10, probably 10, if you take away a couple of things. We did a much bigger job than originally planned, cuz once we put that in, it looked so good, the sidewalks outside didn't look good anymore. You know, they looked like they were in good shape, but when you do something new in this basis, you do something new, the thing that you thought were good, you save it. So, we ended up uh sandblasting, steam cleaning, and sandblasting the sidewalks around it. And we had a lot of areas that were in bad shape. We had to fix them. We patched them, and you can't even see the patch. We have granite surrounding the pool, and the granite's great, but it was filthy, dirty, disgusting. And it was broken in some cases. We We were able to carve out pieces from other pieces that were identical, and put them in, and you can't even see the seam. And uh it's like a beautiful It's It's in better shape than it was when it was built. I told you, from 1922, never worked, because it always leaked. Cuz it had a stone base. The water leaked through the stone. So, we're very proud of it. It's going to be great. Now, we're doing a new surface on the World War II fountain cuz the surface is so bad. And that'll be done during the next couple of We're going to start in a week or so and finish it very quickly. But we've done a great job and the city is everyone's coming up to me saying, 'The city is so beautiful.' So, we [clears throat] have 22 fountains that none of them worked. The The earliest, I'm telling you, is 50 years. The 50 years Uh some of them haven't worked for 100 years. But we have uh fountains that were not working and were disgusting and dirty. And uh they're all beautiful now, every one of them. We also took care of a lot of the monuments, not fountains, but monuments and they're all in good shape. Some of them are being finished up now. And it's incredible. And my goal was to get it all done along with interior and others that worked with us to get it done before the July 4th date. July 4th was a very important date. So, that was our That was the date we looked at and we we did a We did a hell of a job. But everybody's looking at that reflecting pool. They can't believe it. Reflects. We used a dark blue. It's called American flag blue. I wanted to go light, but they said, 'Sir, light doesn't reflect. And light shows leaves and garbage if garbage.' One man said, 'Sir, when you leave, it'll be strewn with garbage again.' You don't want that. So, when I'm here, it'll be perfect. When I leave, I said, 'You're right about that. You're probably right.' Depending on who's president or who's running it. But it's really beautiful. It's something for you to see. It's incredible. It's the largest It's the longest pool in the world by three or four times. It's You know, it's really pretty amazing. That's where Martin Luther King made his great speech. And they say he had a million people. And I made a speech there for July 4th a few years ago and they said and I was packed. And they said I had 25,000 people. They said he had a million, but when you look at the picture

I said, 'Well, wait, the people are even tighter at mine. I had more people than him, but they said I had 25,000 and he had a million, but I'm not going to argue with Martin Luther King cuz I love him.'

But the Secure America Act provides $38 billion to ICE, $26 billion to Border Patrol to ensure these critical law enforcement agencies with the necessary resources to do their jobs protecting our borders and getting criminal aliens out of the country. And starting on day one of my administration, we took the most dangerous, unsafe, violent, and open border people out of this country. We got them out. Um I'll give you an example in Washington over five I don't even know if you know this. It's not just police. You have criminals. You have career criminals. There's nothing you can do to make them nice. They're tough people. They're bad people. Some of them had records 22, 23. One had 28 arrests. And rough arrests for murder. And we got uh we took out almost 5,000 people out of Washington, D.C. And if you remember, so 2% of the people create 91% of the crime. When you hear that number, it's great. I love that number because you can handle 2%.

If it's 91 create 91, that's no good. Too many people. But 2% of the people and we got we took uh uh 5,000 almost 5,000 people out of Washington, D.C. They'll never come back. In addition, the National Guard and we worked with the police department, law enforcement was great. And we have a very safe city. Everyone's going out to eat now. Restaurants were all closed. They were all closing. The few that were open were closing. And now you can't get a restaurant in Washington. Everyone wants to have a restaurant there. It's a whole different So, it's very something we're very proud of. New Orleans, the same thing, by the way. It's a little a little earlier in the process. But, if I got a call from your government, I got a call from Steve. They called me together, actually, and they said uh

They said, 'We've never had a Mardi Gras like that.' They had the lowest crime they'd ever had in the history of the Mar- Mardi Gras, which has been going on for a long time.

It really was. And great Super Bowl, too.

And Memphis and and that's going to be great for the Super Bowl, because we'll keep it that way. I think you're you're bidding on the Super Bowl coming in

Yeah. And it's going to be Now, you can you can really say it was a safe a safe city. And the other one is uh Memphis. We uh crime is down 77%. Can you believe it? People are calling me their friends that were leaving Memphis. We're all leaving, and now they're staying. And uh the governor's everyone's thrilled. It's amazing. And if if they would call me for Chicago, we'd straighten out Chicago so fast. We'd straighten out New York fast. We'd straighten out Los Angeles fast. We do it really well. And part of it is you have to get the really bad ones. You have to get the career criminals out, because they will they'll hit you hard. And they ought to get rid of, by the way, cashless bail. You ought to do that as soon as possible. Where do they Mark Wahlberg?

Where they walk in, they commit a crime, they go out, they in the afternoon they commit another crime. And sometimes those crimes are murder.

Cashless I'll tell you what, cashless bail was a tremendous help to criminals. It's one of the greatest thing that ever happened to a criminal. And they ought to end it in every city. They ought to end it. Chicago, New York, LA, they ought to end it. Starting on day one of my administration, we took the most dangerous, unsafe, violent open border in the world. We had the most unsafe border, I believe, anywhere in the world. And the numbers came out 2 days ago that for 11 months, not one person came into our country illegally through the southern border. We had 25 million people come in over a 4-year period. We have it good, and nobody tries to come in. All the caravans, I came up with the name caravan. It was a You'd have 25, 30,000 people coming up. And they'd pour through the border. You've seen the scenes where they're knocking over the fences. A very, very bad, very dangerous situation. We don't have them anymore because they know they can't get through. So, when they know they can't get through, they don't come. And a lot of lives are saved. Women were being raped on the journey up. They were being raped in numbers. 25, 30% were being raped coming up. You don't have that anymore because they don't come up in caravans anymore because they know they're not going to get through. So, starting on day one, we took the most dangerous and unsafe, violent open border in the world, and we created the most secure border anywhere in our country, probably one of the most in the world. I believe it was the most insecure and unsecure border anywhere in the world. Cuz there's no country, even a third world country, that has a situation like that where you'd have criminals just walk across, totally unchecked. They had a The Biden wasn't Biden. He didn't know what the hell was going on. It was It was people that are radical left lunatics who are very smart, very violent, very vicious, politically vicious. And they allowed this open border policy where millions of people came into our country unchecked, unvetted. People from jails, people drug dealers, people from mental institutions. Jails and mental institutions from all over the world were emptied out into our country. And we've got a lot of them out. We have a ways to go. It's very tough with the courts cuz every of these the judges have been very terrible. They've been terrible. Very sad. But we're doing We're fighting our way through it. We We have made this a much In fact, we made it a country that, as you saw last month, they said we had the lowest murder rate that we've had in 125 years. Think of that. And that's despite the fact because we got a lot out. But we do have more. Uh we We had 11,888 people come into our country who murdered, committed a murder. 50% More than 50% created more than one murder. Think of that. So, you had people coming in one I think seven seven murders. We allowed them into the country. We got most of them out. In the last 12 months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States. We cut the flow of fentanyl across our border by almost 60%. Think of that. And by the way, coming in by sea, 97%. And we're looking for the 3% because we think they're among the bravest people

We cut him down, right? We cut it down. 97% And now I I, you know, hate to tell this to Mexico, but we're now focused on coming in by land because the sea was tougher. A lot was coming in by sea, with much bigger percentage than anyone would know. It was safer for them. It used to be safe. Not safe anymore. But with 97% down coming in by sea, by ocean, by by water, and you see what happens to them and they don't do it a second time. They used to have they were totally unchecked. When they did capture somebody, they'd bring them in, they'd book them, and then let them go. They'd go and they'd be back on their boat the following night. So, we're doing a great job. In the last 12 months, the numbers have changed in this country like nobody's ever seen before. But zero illegal aliens have been admitted. And that's made by largely Democrat people. Those lists are made. And I find it hard to believe when I say zero. I say there must have been some. But they say zero and it it it's very close to zero. It's hard to believe. You look, you know, they used to have that certain areas on the other side of the wall. I built over a thousand miles of wall. Without the wall, you couldn't do But I built over a thousand miles of wall. We're building more now in certain areas where you need it. But uh nobody's ever seen anything like this. They had plazas. We had thousands of people standing in those plazas. They would They actually made them out of concrete cuz the land was so disgusting and dirty and and it was so it was so muddy and horrible. So, they put massive concrete plazas on the other side for people to wait getting in. There's nobody on them. There's nobody They took a picture this morning. There was nobody on any of the plazas. They had four of them, big ones, where they come and stand by the thousands. There was nobody on the plazas. So, it's it's really amazing. Uh I want to speak about in my speeches. I wanted to speak I made a speech last week, which is really wonderful. Wisconsin.

And I wanted to speak about the great job I've done on the border. And my people said, 'Sir, nobody cares about that.' I said, 'What do you mean? I got elected on that. Twice, actually, because I got elected the first time 2016. And uh after I left it became horrible. Horrible. Second time was far worse. The the what it was in 2024 it was so bad. Far worse than 2016. 2016 was like a pleasure trip by comparison to what it became. It became worse in the history of the world. I don't think there's ever been a border where 25 million people came across all unchecked and unvetted. You never let [clears throat] that happen. We can never let that happen what happened to our country again cuz no country can stand it. No country could have withstood what what these people We had a border czar who never saw the border. We had a border czar who never called never once the people that we're giving good paychecks to. They never called up ICE. They never called up the border patrol who are phenomenal people by the way. She never once called them. She was the border czar for 4 years almost 4 years and she never went to the border and she never called up. I used to call them all the time. Paul Brandon I used to call them all the time and say hi how are we doing on the border? Sir we're doing okay. But they're great people amazing people. She never called them. We had the worst border I think of any country in history. No third world country would allow people to come into their country like that. So the bill provides crucial funding for domestic law enforcement investigations and combating child exploitation continuing our work to restore law and order across our nation and to protect America's youth. We're so proud we're so proud of Washington D.C. and the National Guard the job they've done and we've worked with the Washington the Capitol Police. They're they're great people. I've gotten to know so many of them. Very simply the radical left Democrats and and I'm going to use that term a lot because it does I mean who wants open borders? Who wants transgender mutilation of your child. Who wants that? Who wants men playing in women's sports? They're dumb. They're Democrats. They have the worst policy of anybody. I watched that thug that's that's up in Maine. He's a thug. And they're trying to make excuses for him. I mean, he's worse than any human being that's ever run for office, probably. I don't know him. I don't want to say bad, but I I just look I mean nobody's ever had a record like that. And you'll have Schumer he goes crazy over this or that or Epstein Epstein Epstein. This guy when are they talking about him? He said, 'Well, we don't know, but this guy's got a rap sheet. I've never seen anything like it. He's a thug. I know thugs. I had to deal with thugs. I built a lot of buildings. I dealt with the toughest people on earth. I dealt with worse than thugs. This guy's a thug. He's a low-level thug. And he's running for to be a senator to work with Eric Schmitt. Wait Eric will handle him.

To be with Barrasso to Who the hell do we have to deal with Rand now? Rand would be very interesting with him. Rand would figure it out. He'll put him away. But but this is a thug. He's a cheap no-good person. And I watch these senators of the Democrats and well, we don't really know. You do know. He's as bad I've never seen a person like that run for office. And the guy from Texas different, but he's terrible, too. He's terrible He's a radical left communist. But I watched this guy this morning and he was so bad. He was so bad. He's a bad guy, you know, just a bad guy. He must be laughing up his sleeve when he looks at these idiots going like Schumer, 'Well, he's okay. He's okay. He's not okay. Could you imagine if the Republicans had him?

I mean if we had him, judge. Just don't

It wouldn't happen. It wouldn't happen.

Correct.

And the excuses, they come up every day somebody comes forward with really proven stuff. Even his business, you know, oh, he's a busi- He's not a businessman at all. His parents [clears throat] supported him. Guy's a loser. Other than that, he might be a very nice guy.

But very simply, the radical left Democrats and And I don't I look forward to the day when I don't call them Democrats anymore. And I won't if they do their job. If they want to stop crime, if they want to lower taxes, if they want to do the come at the education, the good things. There's so many things we can do together. I look forward to the day that I don't call them Democrats anymore. There'll be that day, I think. I hope. But they're in Congress and they voted with the cartels, the terrorists, the gang members, the drug dealers, the human traffickers, the child predators. And our great Republican majorities voted to protect law-abiding American citizens. I mean, they voted to raise your taxes. They voted for men and women's sports. They voted in favor of men participating in women's sports. It's ridiculous. They voted for the transgender mutilation of your child. They voted for all these things. They voted for open borders. So bad. One of the worst things that's ever happened in this country. Hardest thing to cure. Cuz we have 25,000 people. Remember this, when countries cuz countries sent those people up. When countries put people into a cartel, into a through the cartels, they put them into a whole group of 10, 15, 20,000 people that come in. They're not giving you their best people. They're giving you people that they don't want. And they're sending them into our And the Democrats voted in favor of that. Uh it's it's really it's really a shame. And it's so bad for the country. You'd almost think they hate the country. Cuz they can't They're not stupid people. You can't cheat like they did. And look at the election in California as an example. After a week they determined that he was leading and had all the mojo. All of a sudden he doesn't make the runoff. And then I I hit them hard on that, but I started talking about Steve Hilton, who's a fantastic guy. And I saw them say it was going to be 2 weeks before they knew. And I started hitting them, it's going to happen to Steve Hilton, too. It's watch, you got to watch. And they approved Steve Hilton very quickly. They didn't want him to. There was too much heat on him. The only reason he got approved, he had all the votes he needed, probably to be first place. But the only reason they approved Steve Hilton, it was going to be 2 weeks. They said it. And then they approved him that night because the heat was on them. Cuz they're cheating dogs. And you can't have a great country when that happens. That's why Los Angeles, that's why that state is in such trouble. It's the most beautiful place, best weather maybe anywhere in the world, but it's in big trouble. So, we're going to have a tremendous uh success. The people alongside of me are amazing people. They're amazing people, every one of them. I know every one of them. They're amazing people. They love the country. They want to do right for the country. And uh if you have any questions, please let's go.

Yeah.

Well, we're going to be attacking them and attacking them very hard.

Yeah, well, we are.