Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, D.C.

2:21 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much.  I feel like home.  Realtors.  (Applause.)  Realtors.  Great business.  We love that business.  I love that business.  Every time I go down in this incredible Beast — you know what the Beast is?  The world’s most expensive car.  (Laughter.)  It’s really not a car; it’s an army tank that rides better.  But it’s something.  But I look at the real estate.  I’m always looking at the real estate.  I don’t know, I’ll never get it out of my blood.  It’s in our blood, right?  (Applause.)  Please, sit down.  Sit down, if you want.  Sit down.

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BORDER SECURITY AND MERIT-BASED REFORM: President Donald J. Trump is proposing a pro-American, pro-immigrant, and pro-worker approach to immigrat...


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PROTECTING AMERICAN AUTOS: President Donald J. Trump is taking action to protect the American automobile industry, its workforce, and American innovation.

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1.  On February 17, 2019, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to me a report on his investigation into the effects of imports of passenger vehicles (sedans, sport utility vehicles, crossover utility vehicles, minivans, and cargo vans) and light trucks (collectively “automobiles”) and certain automobile parts (engines and engine parts, transmissions and powertrain parts, and electrical components) on the national security of the United States under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862).

2.  The report found that automotive research and development (R&D) is critical to national security.  The rapid application of commercial breakthroughs in automobile technology is necessary for the United States to retain comp...


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On January 11, 2018, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to me a report on his investigation into the effect of imports of steel articles on the national security of the United States under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862).  The Secretary found and advised me of his opinion that steel articles are being imported into the United States in such quantities and under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of the United States.

2.  In Proclamation 9705 of March 8, 2018 (Adjusting Imports of Steel Into the United States), I concurred in the Secretary’s finding that steel articles, as defined in clause 1 of Proclamation 9705, as amended by clause 8 of Proclamation 9711 of March 22, 2018 (Adju...


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