I just received the key to the City of Miami from Mayor Francis Suarez. Such a Great Honor — Thank you!

If Republicans kill the Filibuster, they sail to Victory for many years to come. If they don’t, DISASTER waiting to happen!

I am thrilled to announce an incredible Trade and Economic Deal between the United States and Uzbekistan. Over the next three years, Uzbekistan will be purchasing and investing almost $35 Billion Dollars and, in the next 10 years, over $100 Billion Dollars, in key American Sectors, including Critical Minerals, Aviation, Automotive Parts, Infrastructure, Agriculture, Energy & Chemicals, Information Technology, and others. I want to thank Uzbekistan’s Highly Respected President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev. We look forward to a long and productive relationship between our Countries!

I just held a great call between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of Israel, and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is the first Country of my Second Term to join the Abraham Accords, the first of many. This is a major step forward in building bridges across the World. Today, more Nations are lining up to embrace Peace and Prosperity through my Abraham Accords. We will soon announce a Signing Ceremony to make it official, and there are many more Countries trying to join this club of STRENGTH. So much more to come in uniting Countries for Stability and Growth — Real progress, real results. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!

Happy Anniversary! On this day, November 5th, one year ago, we had one of the Greatest Presidential Victories in History — Such an Honor to represent our Country. Our Economy is BOOMING, and Costs are coming way down. Affordability is our goal. Love to the American People! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

https://www.youtube.com/live/Bo8bMllxsDg?si=xO7KgV1wiz0jENDA [Music] Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States [Music] [Applause] Thank you. Thank you very much. That was quite a formal entrance. I thought we were just going to sit down and talk a little bit. We talk about exactly one year ago we had that big beautiful victory. Exactly one year. And last night it was uh you know not expected to be a victory. It was very Democrat areas but I I don't think it was good for Republicans. I don't think it was good. I'm not sure it was good for anybody. But we had uh an interesting evening and we learned a lot and we're going to talk about that and I'll say a few remarks and then after that I'll ask the press to leave. Uh the press has been very very nice to us the last couple of months. They were great to us in terms of the foreign visits with China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and they were actually terrific. So, I want to thank you for that. I'm sure you'll get back to your normal ways soon, but uh but we did a great job over in China, and we've done a great job in turning off wars. We stopped eight wars, eight wars, and we have one to go, as you probably know, and that'll get stopped also. But we've done a great job. So, it's a really it's really been an honor to do it and I did it with many of the people in this room. Every one of you I know and every one of you I like. I like our leaders. I like everybody. But I thought we'd have a discussion after the press leaves about uh what last night represented and what we should do about it and also about the shutdown and how that relates to last night. I think uh if you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor. Negative for the Republicans and that was a big factor and they say that I wasn't on the ballot was the the biggest factor, but I don't know about that, but I was honored that they said that. And uh I just want to thank everybody for being here and a very special thanks to Vice President J Vance who's doing a terrific job. JD, thank you very much. [Applause] as well as the Senate leadership team that has been working very hard, working really, I will tell you, nobody's working any harder representing the American people, including Senator John Thun. John, thank you. Great job. [Applause] Senator John Baraso. John, thank you very much. Senator Tom Cotton, wherever you may be. Tom, thank you. Thank you, Tom. Thank you. S Senator Shelley Moore Capitol, who's been very involved. Thank you, Shelly. Senator James Langford from one of my favorite states. 77 out of 77. I always say 77 out of 77. Reagan was 56. That was the record. We got se We got every one of them. Thank you, James. and a fantastic friend of mine and an incredible advocate during the election a year ago, Tim Scott. Thank you, Tim. [Applause] So, as you know, we are in the midst of a disastrous Democratcreated government shutdown, and it is Democrat created, but I don't think they're getting really the blame that they should. That's now officially the longest shutdown in American history. the uh Democrat radicals in the Senate have shown zero interest in reopening the government and uh I don't think they'll act so soon. A lot of people disagree. I've been saying for the last 30 days, we've had four or five different points. Yes, sir. They're going to get it right now. We should have it done in a day. I've heard that about four times. I heard it after Kings. You know, they said I was a king and I heard it after Kings. I heard it after a couple of other moments in time. And I said, "No, I don't believe so." Oh, and now I heard it's after the election. I don't believe so. I think they will. I think they're kamicazi pilots. I just got back from Japan. I talked about the kamicazi pilots. I think these guys are kamicazi. They'll take down the country if they have to. So, I don't think so. Millions of Americans are going to be without SNAP benefits. And I I will say about SNAP benefits. So, when I was president, we had seven billion dollars worth. And now they have many times that because these benefits were given to anybody that asked and they're up to I hear many just many times 47 billion. Uh so it wasn't the purpose of SNAP. It was it was for people that really had problems down and out people that really had problems. But during Biden they gave it to anybody that wanted it. I think it's something you have to talk about because the numbers are incredible. But countless public servants are now not being paid and the air traffic control system is under increasing strain. We must get the government back open soon and really immediately. We have to get it up. We have the hottest economy we've ever had and it's affecting the stock market now a little bit. But the stock market as of Friday has hit many record highs during the last nine months. Many. And uh it will again, this is just the beginning because when these plants that are being built right now start opening up. We've never had anything like this as a boom. There's a construction boom right now, but that's going to be bigger than that. That's going to be an economic boom as as soon as they open up and it's going to be something special. We have car companies coming in. Uh when I was in Japan, Toyota, Mr. Toyota, I said, "What's your name?" Toyota. I said, "Oh, you're rich." He said, "How much of the company do you own?" 92.1%. I said, "I'm glad you said the one. He wants to be." I said, "You're a rich guy." And he said, "Uh, I'm investing10 billion dollars in the US." And uh you know who I'm talking about, right? You introduced me, Mr. Senator. Uh you introduced me originally when you were the ambassador to Japan. He's he's still good. He's still strong, but he's he had no interest in investing in this country. Now he's investing 10 billion as of one week ago in building new plants. We have auto plants coming in incredibly. But we have AI and all of them. And uh we can't be extorted to give $1.5 trillion to people that came into the country illegally, many from prisons, many drug dealers. A lot of people came in from mental institutions. Uh they want to give a lot of money to the people that came in illegally. We have to get them out. We can't. No country can sustain that. That's not like an attack on our country and no country. These are not going to be productive people. These are going to be anti-productive people. And we can be all have big hearts. I have a bigger heart than anybody. But we can't let that happen. It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do, and that's terminate the filibuster. It's the only way you can do it. Uh and if you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll be in bad shape. We won't pass any legislation. There'll be no legislation passed for three and a quart. We have three and a quarter years. That's a long time. Uh, but when they can't do an extension, and John, I think they've done an extension every single time they've ever been asked forever. This is the first time they haven't done an extension. Extensions are supposed to be easy. But if they won't do an extension, they won't do any bill, even a simple bill. And we should do our own bills. We should get out. We should do our own bills. We should open up. We We should start tonight with the country is open. Congratulations. Then we should pass uh voter ID. We should pass no mailin voting. We should pass all the things that we want to pass. Make our election secure and safe because California is a disaster. Uh many of the states are disasters. But can you imagine when they vote almost unanimously against voter ID? All we want is voter ID. You go to a grocery store, you have to give ID. You go to a gas station, you give ID. But for voting, they want no voter ID. That's only for one reason because they cheat. We would pass that in 15 minutes. If you don't get it, you'll never pass that. You'll never talk about mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots make it automatically corrupt. If you have mail-in ballots, automatically it's correct. Even Jimmy Carter, they had the Carter Commission after he got out of office, and he had a group of very distinguished people, Democrats and Republicans, and they passed uh they recommended things take place. It was a long time ago. And they said about mail-in ballots, if there is mail-in ballots, there will definitely be corruption because, you know, they pass through too many hands. I mean, you go in to vote and they want your card. Even me, I went into Palm Beach, you go in to vote, they want your card, you're this, you're that. They say, "I'm sorry to do this, sir, but I have to look at your identification." I said, "That's all right. I I love that." And but, you know, you're really not going to get away with much. It was very, very professional, very good, the way it's supposed to be, but uh these people don't want that. They have legislation in California where it's illegal to ask somebody for voter ID. If you ask somebody for voter ID, if you're an official and you say, "I'd like to see your voter ID." They can arrest you, okay? They can arrest you because they want to cheat and they get away with it. And the Republicans let them get away with it. And we won't do that if we have the filibuster. So, I'm just going to we're going to talk about that a little bit. And we're going to see if we can sway because I know we have a lot of uh not a lot. I'd say half feel this way. Maybe a little bit less than half. and it's time to have a really good talk. Um, if I thought that they weren't going to pass the filibuster, I wouldn't even bring it up. They're going to pass it within the first hour. If they take power, and it's more likely that they take power if we don't do because we're not going to be passing any legislation. They're going to approve anything. We're going to go three and a quarter years. There won't be one bill that we're going to pass because the easiest thing to pass is exactly right now what they won't pass. And they'll do that and they'll wreak havoc. But let's assume they get in. They're doing it anyway, so it wouldn't matter. They're doing it anyway. And you know, I have a case where I have great US attorneys that can't be approved because of the blue slips. The blue slips, I think you should terminate blue slips, too. It's a mental termination because it's really a custom. But if you have a Democrat senator or two, two is bad, but it doesn't make any difference. If you have one senator writes a negative letter on some great US attorney, we had it in Manhattan Southern District. Jay Clayton, one of the most respected lawyers in the whole country by far. One of the most respected and uh couldn't get approved. The courts approved him. The courts couldn't believe it. They did it like instantly. He went to the best schools, got the best marks, top of his class, everything was perfect. I mean, he was like led the perfect life. went to Sullivan and Cromwell almost immediately became the head of Sullivan and Cromwell you know the most uh prestigious law firm I would say in the country just about whether it's Sullivan or two or three I could name but Sullivan I would say really maybe number one he was the head of Sullivan and Cromwell for like 20 years he went to the SEC was flawless he did it for me he was the SEC chairman he was flawless then he went to uh Apollo where he was the chairman of Apollo and it was flawless. Everything went good. The stock went through the roof and everything. I asked him to go to the Southern District and he said, "I'll do what you'd like to do, sir. This is a very high quality person." But he couldn't get approval from Schumer. Schumer didn't approve him. The best student, the best schools, everything. He's like flawless. And the courts actually said, "You're not approving." Jay Clayton, right, Lindsay? You heard this. The courts actually interceded and they approved him. But that's an unusual guy. We have other people that are really good, but people don't know how good, top students, top colleges, and they're US attorneys, and they won't be approved. They're not going to be approved. We have one in Los Angeles who's phenomenal, but no, the senators, the Democrats are, you know, again, they're kamicazis. Uh the Democrats are not going to approve them. Blue slips are a disaster. So the only people I can get approved are Democrats. I was told that by the Democrats. We'll only approve Democrats. I said, ' Really? Is that right? Not going to work that way. Not going to work that way with me. But the blue slips are a total disaster. Uh we will I have 10 people right now that will not be that are doing a phenomenal job and they will be out of office pretty soon. They've got another two, three weeks, a couple of them, and then they're going to have to leave. And uh it it's actually a blight on their record because you know nobody knows why they live. But it looks like they served eight weeks and then they had to leave. But they're not going to get the approval because the Democrat radical left lunatic senators are saying you can't you we're not going to approve you. And if we're not going to approve you, I had actually one Republican who got two great letters, but it turned out that he was a rhino, but that was a nice term for him. Now, he got two letters of approval. And when I said two Democrats approved him, I had to fire him because I figured if two Democrats approved him, they wrote the most beautiful letters. I found out, man, this is strange. And he was no good. I fired him. I He was He was really not much of a Republican. The recommendation of that one wasn't such a good recommendation. Someday I'll tell you who recommended him, but it wasn't exactly the best. But when I saw two, you know, when I when I saw the two senators from Virginia gave him glowing marks, Tim, I said, "Let me see this." I read the most beautiful letters I've ever seen. I said, "Uh, I called him up. I said, "Sorry, you're fired. Get the hell out of here." And but it's it's a horrible thing. Blue slips is a horrible thing because I have the right to pick judges and I have the right to pick US attorneys and this takes away the right from me. And I think we're going to go to court on it. And you know, we'll see what happens in court, but it it gives the president, it takes away the right of the president to pick people to serve on the court and to serve as US attorneys, which is very important. But the biggest thing is the filibuster. Uh we have to get the country going. We will pass legislation at levels you've never seen before, and it'll be impossible to beat us. By the way, if they do, they they're going to do it anyway. And they are going to immediately do the filibuster. And when they do the filibuster, they're going to pack the court. They want five, at least five justice. Now they I hear it's up to five. I actually heard up to seven and up to nine. Okay? They want new judges. They want to pack the court. And they will do it in first day. Maybe the week. Maybe they'll slow it down because there's no reason to rush, but they'll do it first week. They'll vote on this. And I have friends over there that are Democrats. Very I'm close to a lot of people. And I asked him about that because some people say, "Well, maybe they won't do that." I mean, they destroyed the career of Mansion and Cinema and they got them out. They were the only objectors. Nobody else is going to object. They're going to do it the first day. They're going to pack the court. They're going to make DC a state and they're going to make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states. They pick up four senators. Okay. You think you have problems? They're going to do all of the things. They're going to pick up electoral votes. It's going to be a very very bad situation. And it's done. It's done. As soon as they attain power now, if we do what I'm saying, you they'll never they'll most likely never attain power because we will have passed every single thing that you can imagine that it's good and all good for the country and there'll be no reason to. If we don't do that, uh people will say they're not doing much and they're in power. So, the good news is we did the great big beautiful bill and it's the greatest thing we could have done. And the smartest thing with John and and uh our speaker of the house who's so good, Mike Mike Johnson, uh we did all in one bill. If we didn't, John, it would be a problem because, you know, we would have gotten a small piece passed. A lot of people wanted to do that. A lot of people in the room wanted to do that. They went along with me and John and everybody and we we got this thing passed. Honestly, it's four years worth of goodies and no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on, think of it, no tax on overtime. It's an unbelievable tax cut for the workers and for business where business is going to create jobs and we are. We're creating jobs at levels that nobody's ever seen before. All these things are good. We have to be able to get the word out. If we don't get the word out, we're making a very big mistake. So, I have this long, beautiful, and very boring speech. I won't bother reading it. But uh because we can just start talking and uh I think it's very important we have to get the country open and the way we're going to do it this afternoon is to uh terminate the filibuster and it's possible you're not going to do that and I'm going to go by your wishes. You're very smart people. We're good friends. But I think it's a tremendous mistake. Really, it would be a tragic mistake actually. Uh it's time. It's time. If I thought they weren't going to approve, I'd sort of be with you. I'd be fine. I'd be neutral to with you. But knowing that they're going to pass it as soon as they get any semblance of control, they'll pass it first thing. Then it's like we have to do it first. And we have two years and we we'll end up with two, three years and we'll have this country so perfect. We will have passed more legislation than any Congress and any sen group of senators or group of congressmen and uh we will get it through. They'll send it to us, we'll send it to them. It'll be a beautiful machine. Uh otherwise, we're just going to sit around and argue with these people all day long and and they're highly unrealistic, highly unrealistic. Many of them are radical uh subversives, frankly. So, I want to thank everybody and we're going to talk and I want to thank the press for treating us so really well for that foreign trip. It was an amazing We had a just an amazing meeting. Don't forget uh two months ago it looked like the whole world was in trouble over rare earth and that's no longer even a subject of people talk about. It was all worked out very quickly. Without tariffs I couldn't have done it. I I put a 100% tariff on China. As soon as I heard it within 20 minutes I put a 100% tariff on China on President Xi who's really a friend of mine as much as he can be a friend. He's a tough man. He's a tough man. Smart man actually. very smart. The press doesn't like it when I call them very smart. You know, they think I'm not supposed to call them smart, but he leads 1.4 billion people without question. In fact, during the meeting, we were there and couple of you were there and some of you saw it. So, he's here and he's got about six people on each side. And every one of those people were standing like this. They were in attention. And I made a comment to one of them and they got no response. I said, "Are you going to answer me?" He got no response and president she didn't let him have any. So there's any question I said I want my cabinet to behave like that. That's the way I'm demanding that my I want them sitting up like that Tim just nice and straight. I never saw posture like that. I've never seen men so scared in their lives. They have the equivalent the equivalent of a vice president. He he was I said are you going to answer my question? And he's like he doesn't move. I said what's wrong with this guy? I will answer all questions. Why don't you behave like that? J D doesn't behave like that. J D buds into conversations. What's I want to have I want to have that for at least a couple of days. Okay, JD, we'll keep you long term, but a couple of days of that would a couple of days of that would be very very nice. Okay, I want to thank you and we'll talk a little bit and uh I see they set me up with a podium. I thought I'd just be sitting, but it's probably easier. I want to thank you all very much. Thank you to the press and you can go and we'll speak to you later. Thank you. I'm going to Miami to make a speech today at a big group and uh we have a nice big crowd and we'll see you there. A lot of you are traveling down with me. Thank you very much.

Pass Voter Reform, Voter ID, No Mail-In Ballots. Save our Supreme Court from “Packing,” No Two State addition, etc. TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!!!

Congressman Mike Carey is a Fantastic Advocate for Ohio’s 15th Congressional District! As a Member of the POWERFUL House Ways & Means Committee, Mike understands the America First Policies required to Create GREAT Jobs, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., and Champion our Nation’s Golden Age. A Brave U.S. Army Veteran, Mike knows the Wisdom and Courage required to Defend our Country, Support our Military/Veterans, and Ensure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH. He is also working hard to Keep our now very Secure Border, SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment. Mike Carey has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!

TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, NOT JUST FOR THE SHUTDOWN, BUT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE. WE WILL GET ALL OF OUR COMMON SENSE POLICIES APPROVED (VOTER ID, ANYONE?) AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! REMEMBER, THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO IT IMMEDIATELY, AS SOON AS THEY GET THE CHANCE. OUR DOING IT WILL NOT GIVE THEM THE CHANCE. REPUBLICANS, BE TOUGH AND SMART! THE DEMS ARE CRAZED LUNATICS, THEY WILL NOT OPEN UP OUR COUNTRY NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IRREPARABLY HARMED!