Remarks by President Trump in Working Lunch with Governors on Workforce Freedom and Mobility | Eastern North Carolina Now

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White House Cabinet Room  •  Washington D.C.  •  June 13  •  12:49 P.M. EDT
    THE PRESIDENT: Okay, thank you very much. And today, I'm delighted to welcome the governors from both parties to discuss the best ways to reform occupational licensing laws, advance childcare policies, and provide quality job training to all Americans so we can easily have some really phenomenal jobs, access to the jobs market and really fulfilling careers, and fulfilling careers of a lot of people.

    Tremendous progress has been made. My daughter Ivanka has been working on this very, very hard for pretty much the last year and a half. And we've created over 10 million - she has - and working with some of the great companies, created over 10 million jobs. It's been an incredible job that she's done, and I appreciate it.

    Where's Ivanka? Hi. Hello, darling. I guess, when you're a father, you're very proud of that. But I'm very proud of the job she did, so thank you very much.

    MS. TRUMP: Thank you. And I've had the great fortune of visiting with almost every governor in their states to discuss all of the three issues that you mentioned, and appreciate everyone's tremendous work and advocacy on (inaudible) childcare, and workforce development.

    THE PRESIDENT: Right. And with a lot of big companies.

    MS. TRUMP: Yeah, absolutely.

    THE PRESIDENT: Like Walmart and others that have really taken - I mean, taken on half a million jobs; 250,000 jobs at a time. It's really been great. So we'll let you talk about that.

    Would you like to mention that right now? Go ahead.

    MS. TRUMP: Sure. Well, actually, Governor Reynolds is on our workforce advisory board. This is a working group that supports our National Council for the American Workforce to think about how we can explore education holistically, particularly looking at that mid- to late-career worker in a time of tremendous disruption and change due to new technologies.

    So it's been amazing. We've traveled across the country and seen the best in-class examples where the private sector is really stepping up. We've secured commitments from them to do more. Tim Cook, from Apple, who was here today, who's also on the advisory board.


    THE PRESIDENT: Who just left. He just left our office.

    MS. TRUMP: He's been a real force on both the advisory board and in his commitment to lifelong learning, generally. Walmart, as you mentioned. I was just in Indiana with Marc Benioff from Salesforce, where he committed to training and upskilling one million American workers over the course of the next five years.

    THE PRESIDENT: Fantastic.

    MS. TRUMP: So there's been real excitement around this. And the best examples are when the private sector shares the skills that they need with the community colleges, the technical schools, the high schools. And the students and workers are trained accordingly. So we want to highlight it, and push and reinforce that.

    THE PRESIDENT: Really great job. Thank you very much.

    MS. TRUMP: Thank you.

    THE PRESIDENT: Appreciate it. Very outstanding.

    Thanks to Governors Doug Ducey. Doug, thank you very much. Terrific job you're doing. Brian Kemp. Brian. Brian. How's it going? Pretty good?

    GOVERNOR KEMP: It's great.

    THE PRESIDENT: I think so. Good numbers you have. Good numbers.

    GOVERNOR KEMP: They're good.

    THE PRESIDENT: The state doing well?

    GOVERNOR KEMP: It's doing good. We're very appreciative of you signing the disaster relief bill very quickly. That was helpful for us. We were with Senator Perdue and Secretary Perdue, and Congressman Bishop in South Georgia last week. And our farmers and farm families appreciate it.

    THE PRESIDENT: Right. Well, I appreciate the job you're doing.

    David Ige - thank you, David, very much. How's everything going?


    GOVERNOR IGE: Terrific. It's going very well. And we also appreciate signing the disaster relief. As you know, we've had a challenging year in 2018, and we definitely appreciate it.

    THE PRESIDENT: Well, we got it done. It was a tough one, actually, but we got it done.

    And Kim Reynolds, everybody knows. Kim.

    GOVERNOR REYNOLDS: Thank you. And I also want to say thank you for the disaster relief, as well as E15 year around. We had you in Iowa celebrating that great news. It's great news for our farmers and our economy and for consumers. So thank you for continuing to really do what your administration has been able to do for our farmers and our economy.

    THE PRESIDENT: Well, we were there yesterday, and the ethanol has been incredible, what they've done. So it's a big boost for the farmers.

    GOVERNOR REYNOLDS: Big boost. We really appreciate that a lot.

    THE PRESIDENT: And Chris Sununu? Chris. Hi.

    GOVERNOR SUNUNU: Hello.

    THE PRESIDENT: How's everything going?

    GOVERNOR SUNUNU: Crushing it. Loving it. (Laughter.)

    THE PRESIDENT: You are doing well. I agree with that, Chris.

    GOVERNOR SUNUNU: I think your tax cuts, SOR grants, regulatory reform - it's helping families. It's putting money in people's pockets. It's awesome.

    THE PRESIDENT: That's great, Chris. You're really doing a good job. Appreciate it.

    And Tom Wolf? Tom?

    GOVERNOR WOLF: Yeah, Pennsylvania is doing well. I really think this is the right topic, talking about how we can get more people into the workforce and get them the skills they need. And we need to talk about this very intensely, and you're doing a good job of it.


    THE PRESIDENT: And we'll be talking about that. We're going to make some pretty strong statements todays. We're doing a lot about it.

    Bill Lee, thank you very much. Bill.

    GOVERNOR LEE: Mr. President, good to see you.

    THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Bill.

    GOVERNOR LEE: Thank you. And thank you, by the way, for encouraging the people of Tennessee to help us get education reform done. You spoke out about that for us, and we have made some real progress there, and giving every kid in our state access to high-quality education. So thanks for that.

    THE PRESIDENT: It's working well too, isn't it?

    GOVERNOR LEE: It is. We're going to implement that, and we're hopeful and certain that we're going to improve our public school systems in a meaningful way.

    THE PRESIDENT: I've heard amazing things that you're doing with education in Tennessee.

    GOVERNOR LEE: Thank you.

    THE PRESIDENT: So you're going to have to teach some other people, maybe. (Laughter.) Huh?

    GOVERNOR LEE: We like best practices, and sharing them and getting them.

    THE PRESIDENT: And Mark Gordon. Thank you, Mark, very much. Appreciate it.

    GOVERNOR GORDON: Mr. President, it's wonderful to be here. Thank you for your support of energy, making sure Wyoming is part of that energy picture going forward - coal, natural gas, oil, wind, solar. All very important parts of our economy going forward. Thank you for your support of our farmers, making sure that we have clear access to trade. That's also another important feature of what your administration has done. And we appreciate it very much.