Trump Asked: 'Do You Think We Can Avoid A Government Shutdown?'

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked if there will be a government shutdown.

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00:00Mr. President, at the end of this month, the government or the Congress has to pass a budget.

00:05Do you think we can avoid a government shutdown?

00:07Yeah, I do. I think the Republicans will vote for an extension.

00:11We won't have any Democrat votes.

00:12We could give the greatest budget ever.

00:15A tax cut of 50 percent, everybody taken care of, perfect for women, perfect for men, perfect for minorities, perfect for everything,

00:23and we wouldn't get one vote for the Democrats because they've lost their mind.

00:26They are so deranged. They have Trump derangement syndrome, and I don't want to burn the Republican Party with it,

00:34but they really are. They've become almost sick.

00:39You know, they actually think there is a disease. It's called Trump derangement syndrome.

00:44They've got it. No matter what we did, no matter how good, you could give them everything that they've ever dreamed of,

00:52and you wouldn't get one vote.

00:53But these are sick people, and I think we're going to have a tremendous midterm.

00:57We just approved the largest tax decrease in the history of our country.

01:02We have things, when you think of it, no tax on tips, no tax on social security for our seniors,

01:08no tax on overtime, deductions when you buy a car and you borrow money to buy a car.

01:14First time they've ever seen a thing like this.

01:16Middle-income people get deductions.

01:17You get a deduction when you buy a car. Nobody's ever seen.

01:21And by the way, they're selling cars like crazy. Cars are pouring back because of the fact that we have tariffs.

01:27Cars are pouring back into our car. Plants are pouring back into our nation.

01:32They're coming from all over the world. They're coming back.

01:34You know, we lost about 54 percent of automobile manufacturing over a 30-year period, 35-year period.

01:41They're all coming back.

01:42I think they're coming back higher than ever before. We have AI going up.

01:46What we've done is amazing, and what we've passed is amazing.

01:50But the Democrats, I don't believe, will get one vote.

01:55It's very anti-crime. We want anti-crime.

01:58They're in favor of crime. We're against crime.

02:01You know, they gave us things like men playing in women's sports, open borders for everybody, transgender for everybody.

02:10I mean, they want a transgender for all of the crazy things that they were saying.

02:14And, you know, people would say they're 80-20 issues.

02:17I say they were 97 to 3. I always say 97 to 3, and nobody knows who the 3 are.

02:22This is the best issue of all.

02:24They are against preventing crime.

02:26They are fighting us.

02:29I want to go into Chicago and have this incompetent governor that doesn't want us.

02:33Do you know that this weekend, 72 people were shot in Chicago?

02:38I'm embarrassed to say it in front of the president of Poland.

02:4111 people were killed.

02:4372 people were shot.

02:45Last week, 7 people were killed in Chicago.

02:49A place which is probably your number one place.

02:52I hate to say it.

02:53Yeah, I love the polls in Chicago.

02:54And we've got to keep it safe.

02:55But 7 people were killed.

02:58The week before that, 5 people were killed.

03:00And 21 people were shot.

03:02This is in 3 weeks.

03:04So in 3 weeks, I lost almost 35 people were killed.

03:09It could have been stopped.

03:11If you look at Washington, D.C., 3 weeks ago, it was the same or worse.

03:17And now it's considered a totally safe zone.

03:20Restaurants are open.

03:21They're bustling.

03:22Restaurants, you have to see, restaurants were dying.

03:25Nobody wanted to go out.

03:26They didn't want to be attacked.

03:27They didn't want to be mugged.

03:28They didn't want to be attacked, even in the restaurant.

03:31And you take a look at what's happened.

03:33Friends of mine that haven't gone to a restaurant in four years,

03:36one of them went out five times in the last two weeks to a restaurant with his family.

03:42They feel totally safe.

03:43Washington, D.C. is a totally safe city.

03:47You're not reporting any crime because there is none.

03:50They said crime is down 87%.

03:52And I said, no, it's not.

03:53It's down 100%.

03:54We have a great thing going.

03:56I could do that with Chicago.

03:58We could do that with New York.

04:00We could do it with Los Angeles.

04:01So we're making a determination now.

04:04Do we go to Chicago or do we go to a place like New Orleans,

04:09where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry,

04:11who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country

04:18that's become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad.

04:23So we're going to be going to maybe Louisiana.

04:27And you have New Orleans, which has a crime problem.

04:30We'll straighten that out in about two weeks.

04:31It'll take us two weeks easier than D.C.

04:34But we could straighten out Chicago.

04:36All they have to do is ask us to go into Chicago

04:40if we don't have the support of some of these politicians.

04:43But I'll tell you who is supporting us, the people of Chicago.

04:47And I sort of want them to let it be known they have incompetent people.

04:52A guy like Gavin Newsom, he's the governor of a state,

04:55that if we didn't go in, if we didn't go into Los Angeles with our soldiers,

05:00with our National Guard, you wouldn't even be having the Olympics there.

05:04They were going to take it.

05:05And remember this, your top law enforcement officer in Los Angeles said,

05:10there's no way we could have done this without President Trump coming in with the troops.

05:16We saved Los Angeles and we saved the Olympics.

05:19Thank you very much.

05:20The President of the House of Representatives

05:20National Guard on a National Guard.

05:21Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President,

05:22President Trump isangu蕪igalnya.

05:23The President

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