00:18I am so honored to work for President Trump and the American people as the new White House press
00:27secretary I want to thank President Trump for his trust that he has placed in me I have wanted to
00:37work for him for a very long time I'm looking forward to working with each of you as well
00:45especially as we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with energy and excitement never seen before
00:53in the history of midterms thanks to President Trump just look no further than last night in
01:00Youngstown Ohio where President Trump delivered another blockbuster rally out on the trail the
01:09arena was overflowing with enthusiasm as thousands came out to support President Trump as well as
01:16special guests Jake Paul and football legend John Gruden the president also announced the
01:23Department of War has officially selected Cleveland Ohio as the new home for the US Navy's submarine
01:31component repair center this massive 46,000 square foot facility will manufacture repair and maintain
01:42key parts for virtually all new and existing submarines this is historic everyday Americans are showing up in
01:52droves to attend these rallies because of President Trump's America first agenda of lower taxes higher wages
02:02and one of my favorites secure borders but it doesn't stop there President Trump is planning to hold rallies in
02:13Alaska Arizona Montana where I will be with him and Georgia building off of the incredible momentum generated over the
02:25last
02:25several days from his stops in Tennessee New York Texas and Nebraska he is an energetic president
02:35attendance is at record highs as enthusiastic hard-working Americans are lining up and packing arenas to support
02:44President Trump and Republicans it's not hard to see why President Trump is fighting and delivering for American
02:55workers every minute of every day real wages are up 1.2% since President Trump took office with average
03:06annual earnings
03:07outpacing inflation by $800 under Biden real wages fell nearly 4% with the average private sector workers annual purchasing
03:19power declining by nearly $3,000 annually President Trump is the first president in modern history to
03:29actually lower prescription drug prices delivering the biggest drop in 63 years President Trump has created more than 1 million
03:40private sector jobs in his second term including nearly a hundred and twelve thousand factory construction jobs and seventy two
03:48thousand
03:49manufacturing jobs this year alone and thanks to President Trump we are once again bringing back American energy
03:58dominance because energy security is national security President Trump secured the biggest oil deal in world history
04:09delivering the US majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela
04:19he had a historic one-day war and now we are have a booming economy and a great relationship
04:27with Venezuela the US achieved record domestic oil and gas production in 2025 and record crude and petroleum
04:36product exports in 2026 building off of his historic boom in energy production in the first 15 months of this
04:45administration we have secured trillions of dollars and new investments trillions of dollars including 1.4
04:53trillion dollars from the United Arab Emirates 600 billion dollars from Apple and 340 billion dollars from Amazon no other
05:02president could have gotten these deals done just weeks ago President Trump announced that
05:08the US will build a massive 15 billion dollar steel complex in Iowa the largest steel plant ever built in
05:20the United States
05:21this facility a historic facility will create 1,750 new permanent jobs and support up to 6,000 construction jobs
05:33and generate an estimated 95 billion dollars
05:38and economic output
05:41in addition President Trump and Endural announced Arsenal 2
05:45the biggest American shipyard push since World War 2 in Maryland
05:51this new facility will create about 3,100 direct jobs and support more than 11,000 indirect jobs
06:01President Trump also unveiled a South Korea energy investment package of up to 200 billion dollars in the United States
06:09this is an amazing deal this includes as much as 120 billion dollars to build 8 to build 8 large
06:18-scale nuclear power plants
06:20something we've needed as the United States and something President Trump promised on the campaign trail
06:24and something President Trump is delivering on just like he delivers on every promise
06:31in addition to this in addition to that we will be we will be do yeah there is 54 billion
06:37dollars tied to the Alaska LNG pipeline
06:41and terminal to service the Pacific Rim and sell fuel to our allies as well as 22.3 billion dollars
06:50for a 6 gigawatt natural gas power facility in Texas
06:55not only is the Trump administration bringing in trillions of dollars to invest throughout the country
07:01but we are also protecting your tax dollars by addressing fraud head-on
07:07since taking office the Trump administration has uncovered over 260 billion dollars of fraud
07:15stopped 72 billion dollars of fraud annually through administrative actions
07:21and recovered 58.9 billion dollars through indictments settlements and civil monetary penalties
07:30above all President Trump is working to secure the Western Hemisphere for centuries to come
07:39President Trump signed an unprecedented agreement giving the United States lasting control over security interests in Greenland
07:48President Trump has used the power of tariffs to stop China from producing fentanyl precursor chemicals
07:58the fentanyl killed many of our citizens and he is hard at work in ensuring that that won't happen
08:04and here at home fentanyl trafficking across the southern border is down 56%
08:12and fentanyl linked deaths plunged 22% in a single year because of President Trump
08:19this is a president and administration that is looking out for you
08:24the American people and I'm thrilled to officially be part of this incredible journey together
08:32and with that I will take your questions here in our new media seat
08:39we have Nick Gelbertson from Breitbart
08:41Hi Katie, welcome to the briefing room
