"We care about poverty. Today Latino and African American poverty is at the lowest recorded."
"Can we do more to help grow the economy and fine tune the Tax Code so it achieves even more? Absolutely."
"Main Street America is back hiring more, paying more, and expanding more because the new 20-percent small business deduction."
"A couple quick things. First, without objection, I would like to enter for the record a paper by Lawrence Lindsey showing that income inequality rose more under Bill Clinton than under Ronald Reagan, ..."
"Repealing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as our Democrats have pledged, not only will damage the U.S. economy, kill jobs, reduce paychecks and send American jobs overseas."
"The American economy has a new trajectory and a new optimism."
"China's unfair treatment of U.S. investors is a huge part of the problem that the U.S. Trade Representative's Section 301 report identifies in great detail."
"A new era of fairer trade between China and the United States is in everyone's interest."
"We can all strongly agree that China has cheated on trade for decades, severely harming American workers and businesses."
"President Trump deserves significant credit for being the first President to confront China's unfair and predatory trade practices head-on."
"I will continue to work closely with the President and his team to ensure we minimize the impact to the United States and our allies as we take on China."