The White House

The long and painful nightmare is finally over.

The Nile is so beautiful, so magnificent.

They had a very important role with Hamas.

It took 3,000 years to get to this point. Can you believe it?

This is the day that people across the region and around the world have been working, striving, hoping and prayed for.

I'm pleased to announce that numerous countries of great wealth and power and dignity have come forward to me just today and over the last week to say they want to help in the reconstruction of Gaza, putting up whatever money is necessary.

The president convinced the entire Muslim world really, both the Gulf Arab states, but as far in Southeast Asia as Indonesia, to really step up and provide ground troops so that Gaza could be secured in safety.

We think that the Arab countries, the Muslim-majority countries, are going to step up in a big way with troops on the ground.

It's a big day for their families, but I think, more importantly, it's a big day for the entire world.

We want the government to reopen, but Chuck Schumer and the Democrats decided to shut down the government, and we have to deal with the consequences in the administration.

We're going to continue to play our mediation role. And I think that's a very, very good place for all of us to be.

It is going to take consistent leverage and consistent pressure from the president of the United States on down.

The president was criticized for it. The diplomatic team was criticized for it. But I think that, because he chose a different pathway, we are now on the cusp of a sustainable peace in the Middle East.

We feel very confident the hostages will be released, and that the president is actually traveling to the Middle East likely this evening in order to meet them and greet them in person.

Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don’t think so.

I might have to speak to Russia, to be honest with you, about Tomahawks.

They’d like to have Tomahawks. That’s a step up.

They need Patriots very badly.

This isn't a negotiation. This is hostage-taking.

We are confident, Margaret. Of course, we always follow the law, and we always follow court cases, and we think that we have the authority to do what we need to do.

But my point is, Margaret, that we have to do layoffs because we have to preserve necessary resources to do the most critical things that the government does.

Well, look, as the president said, you have to remember, the war started because of a brutal terrorist attack on Israeli soil, and we've been laser-focused on eliminating the terrorist threat to the Israelis, while also ensuring that the…

We'll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs that aren't popular with Republicans, frankly, because that's the way it works. They wanted to do this, so we'll give them a little taste of their own medicine.

Well, these are largely people that the Democrats want. Many of them will be fired.