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RUSH: (Mister Ed impression) There\u2019s Willlllburrrrrrr.<\/p>\nRUSH: Here we go. Here\u2019s the president…<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: …with various countries. We are negotiating, uhh, very long, very hard, but very quickly. And, uh, the deal with South Korea is —<\/p>\n
RUSH: (Mister Ed impression) There\u2019s Willlllburrrrrrr.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: — going to Secretary [Wilbur] Ross and Bob Leitheiser —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hey, Wilbuuuuuuur!<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: — is very close to being finished, and we\u2019re going to have a wonderful deal with, uh, a wonderful ally, getting very close to it. It — it was a deal that was causing a lot of problems for our country —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Got four minutes here, 3-1\/2 to get this done.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: — in terms of employment and in terms of lots of other things. I might ask, uh, Secretary Ross to just say a few words about that, and then —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ohhhh.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: — we\u2019re going to get on to this ridiculous situation that took place over the last week. So, Secretary Ross?<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s Willlllbuuuur!<\/p>\n
WILBUR: Thank you, Mr. President. We — we — we believe we are relatively close to a pretty comprehensive resolution with the South Korean government. It — it will encompass, if it goes through, both the 232s and broader trade issues. Uh, and we hope by sometime next week to be able to have a real announcement.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s great. The 232s. Cool!<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you at a very much, Wilbur. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Willllllbuuuuuur.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: The (pause) last time we negotiated something like this — and, as you know, it\u2019s always been a problem for our country — they get together and they create a series of documents that nobody\u2019s been able to read because it was… It was just done. Now, you tell me: Who can read that quickly? It takes a long time to read it. For the last eight years, deep defense cuts have undermined our national security, hollowed our… If you just… If you look at what\u2019s taken out, they\u2019ve hollowed our readiness as a military unit and put America at really grave risk.<\/p>\n
My highest duty is to keep America safe. Nothing more important. The omnibus bill reverses this dangerous defense. As crazy as it\u2019s been, as difficult as it\u2019s been, as much opposition to the military as we\u2019ve had from the Democrats — and it has been tremendous. I tried to explain to them, “You know, the military is for Republicans and Democrats and everybody else. It\u2019s for everybody!” But we have tremendous opposition to creating really what will be the far — by far the strongest military that we\u2019ve ever had. We\u2019ve had that from the Democrats.<\/p>\n
So if we take something for the military, they want something for, in many cases, things that are really a wasted sum of money. It\u2019s not right and it\u2019s very bad for our country. We\u2019re looking to do funding for our final fight in certain areas. As you know, we\u2019ve gotten just about a hundred percent of our land back from ISIS. We have troop increases necessary to accomplish what we have to do, and we have — very importantly — a pay increase for our troops.<\/p>\n
And this will be actually the largest pay increase for our incredible people in over a decade. It increases total defense spending by more than $60 billion from last year and funds the addition of critically needed ships, planes, helicopters, tanks, and submarines. We have submarines being built the likes of which there\u2019s nothing anywhere in the world like the submarines we build. Our military equipment is the best equipment in the world.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This is a set up for signing.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: — Saudi Arabia —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Military spending.<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: — and with other countries. Saudi Arabia as an example is buying hundreds of billions of dollars\u2019 worth of our equipment and we\u2019re getting very fast approvals on that. Therefore, as a matter of national security, I\u2019ve signed this omnibus budget bill. There are a lot of things that I\u2019m unhappy about in this bill. There are a lot of things that we shouldn\u2019t have had in this bill but we were in a sense forced if we want to build our military, we were forced to have.<\/p>\n
There are some things that we should have in the bill. But I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again. I\u2019m not gonna do it again. Nobody read it. It\u2019s only hours old. Some people don\u2019t even know — $1.3 trillion. It\u2019s the second largest ever. President Obama signed one that was actually larger, which I\u2019m sure he wasn\u2019t too happy with, either.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ha!<\/p>\n
THE PRESIDENT: But in this case it became so big because we need to take care of our military. And because the Democrats, who don\u2019t believe in that, added things that they wanted in order to get their votes. We have to get rid of the filibuster rule. We have to get rid of the filibuster rule and go to 51 votes in the Senate if we\u2019re going to have really sustained, continued success.<\/p>\n
DACA recipients have been treated extremely badly by the Democrats. We wanted to include DACA. We wanted to have \u2019em in this bill, 800,000 people, and actually it could even be more. And we wanted to include DACA in this bill. The Democrats would not do it. They would not do it. To prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again, I\u2019m calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for all government spending bills, and the Senate must end, they must end the filibuster rule and get down to work. We have to get —<\/p>\n
RUSH: McConnell is never gonna do that.<\/p>\n