Speaking to reporters at the White House, President Trump responded to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) who said he was disinvited from the White House picnic.
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00:00Mr. President, sir, you made a lengthy posting today on Truth Social about Senator Rand Paul.
00:08Do you expect to see him at the picnic tonight, sir?
00:10I do. I look forward to seeing him, actually. I like him.
00:13He's the hardest vote in the history of the U.S. Senate to get.
00:18Probably won't get him.
00:20But he's a very tough vote. I mean, he's a very tough vote.
00:23He's always been a friend of mine. You know, I endorsed him and got him elected.
00:26I got him elected twice. But I don't think he understands how great this bill is.
00:35This is a great bill. No tax on tips. No tax on, you know, the Social Security payments.
00:40It's unbelievable what happens. No tax on overtime. You work overtime. No more tax.
00:45It's so those are those are big, but they're minor compared to the big things.
00:50Taxes reduced. And let's look at the other side.
00:54If it's not if it doesn't get approved, a 68 percent tax increase, 68 percent, including the fact that the Trump tax cuts kick in.
01:03But it's a 68 percent tax increase and many other bad things.
01:08I don't even want to. Some of them are so bad. I don't don't even want to talk about them.
01:11I think it's one of the greatest bills we'll ever pass in this country. And I think that leader Thune and this gentleman right here, what what he's gone through on this with.
01:24You know, we started off with a majority of one. Now I guess we have seven.
01:27So it's it's like easier. But it's really sort of three. It's seven.
01:32But it really equates to three. Right. And we have great support.
01:36I mean, I can't tell you I can't guarantee. But when you have a majority of essentially three where you can't lose anything more than three votes and you get it passed, it's pretty amazing.
01:48And I think it's going to haunt the Democrats because most of the bill is common sense.
01:54It's tax cuts. It's border wall funding. It's military funding properly spent.
02:02It's all things that are like common sense. They're all good. There's nothing tricky about it.
02:07It's basic stuff. And we don't intend on getting one. Think of it. Not one Democrat vote in the House.
02:14Mike, not one. Maybe somebody will come along. I don't know how they can run for office.
02:21So many different things. We're going to we're going to very important Medicare and Medicaid are going to be strengthened, not hurt.
02:29You know, they're using fake narrative. Oh, we're going to know they're going to be strengthened.
02:33We're going to strengthen them. They're going to destroy them because under their policies, Medicare and Medicaid go away.
02:39Social Security under them is going to be devastated. With us, it's going to be kept.
02:43But much stronger than before. And very interestingly, I saw this and I proved it because for four years, I never hurt Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.
02:55I've already been there. But they're going to destroy Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
03:01They're going to wipe them out, in my opinion, because their policies are so bad.
03:05The country will have no money to pay for them. We're going to make them stronger than ever before.
03:09Thank you very much, everybody.