Trump: It’s Vital that We Reduce the Crushing Tax Burden on Our Companies and on Our Workers

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TRUMP: “Thank you very much. I'm pleased to be here with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Paul Ryan and the two leaders of our tax-writing committees, Chairman Orrin Hatch and Chairman Kevin Brady who've been working on tax reform for months with our Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn our National Economic Council director. Since the day I took office, we’ve added 1.2 million private sector jobs and a lot more than that if you go from the time we actually got elected, November 8, including 125,000 manufacturing jobs, and we just had another very good month for manufacturing in the jobs, you probably all saw that. But if we’re going to keep this momentum going and allow the economy to truly take off as it should, it is vital that we reduce the crushing tax burden on our companies and on our workers."