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The White House • October 3, 2019 President Trump is protecting Medicare for America’s seniors Today, President Donald J. Trump traveled to The Villages, Florida, outlining how he will protect Medicare for our Nation's seniors. In doing so, he offered a clear contrast to Congressional Democrats’ socialist takeover vision for the public. A message to America’s seniors: “No one will lay a hand on your Medicare benefits.” “I made you a sacred pledge that I would strengthen, protect, and defend Medicare for our senior citizens,” President Trump said. “Today, I will sign a historic executive order that does exactly that: We are making your Medicare even better—and we are not letting anyone take it away.” The newly signed Executive Order will improve service to American seniors in many ways. First, it will empower patients by giving them more plan choices, more access to new therapies, and more time with providers. It will also maximize freedom for patients and providers by reducing regulatory burdens and eliminating unnecessary barriers. But most important, it will improve the fiscal sustainability of Medicare overall, ensuring that it will always be there for those who need it most. In the Sunshine State alone, more than 4.5 million people are currently enrolled in Medicare. Today’s announcement was just the latest bit of welcome news for Floridians as part of the President’s economic agenda for working Americans. More than 550,000 jobs have been added there since the election, and the state’s unemployment rate has been reduced from 4.7 percent to 3.3 percent. “Medicare is under threat like never before. Almost every major Democrat in Washington has backed a massive government healthcare takeover that would obliterate Medicare.” The left’s “Medicare-for-All” vision is a dangerous proposal, to put it lightly, threatening to end the Medicare program as we know it and eliminate choice for America’s seniors. If it is ever implemented, the end result would be Medicare-for-none. Democrats lied about Obamacare then. They’re lying about Medicare-for-All now. President Trump’s healthcare vision: Puts America’s seniors and patients first Photo of the Day Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour President Trump speaks with reporters prior to his trip to The Villages, Florida | October 3, 2019

Democrats are Wrong. Middle-Class Incomes Surging – Thanks to Trump Policies “Middle-class incomes, after adjusting for inflation, have surged by $5,003 since Donald Trump became president in January 2017,” Stephen Moore writes for Fox News. “These numbers contrast sharply with the 16 years prior to Trump’s presidency. In the eight years that George W. Bush was president, median income barely showed any gain, up just $401 thanks to the deep recession of 2008. In the seven and a half years that Barack Obama was president, and not including the end of the recession, which Obama inherited, incomes inched up by $1,043 (June 2009 – January 2019).” Of course, these income surges under President Trump, “especially in the last several months, have occurred at exactly the time when many liberal economists and media talking heads were shouting ‘recession.’” Click here to read more. More: America’s unemployment rate drops to 50-year low! In the Washington Examiner, Byron York writes that House Democrats do the public a disservice by holding their impeachment hearings behind closed doors. “The hearings are part of an effort to remove the president from office. There could not be a matter of more pressing public concern . . . The impeachment proceedings should be opened up — now.” “The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a mutually beneficial trade deal that is good for everyone involved – the United States, Canada, and Mexico. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) continues to put politics over people, refusing to bring the USMCA to the House floor for a vote,” Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) writes in The Hill. Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-LA) is catching heat for questionable claims about President Trump’s trade policies, implying the President’s tariffs have driven up the price of imported recycled scrap metal, Elizabeth Crisp reports for NOLA.com. “This is comically bad staff work: there are no tariffs on inbound recycled scrap,” White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro said. “The latest book on Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a critical biography from two New York Times reporters that made new sexual assault charges that were immediately undermined, has suffered an epic sales crash,” Paul Bedard reports for the Washington Examiner. The source called it “one of the most epic bombs” in recent political publishing. US Unemployment Rate Falls to Five-Decade Low of 3.5% America’s unemployment rate fell to a 50-year low last month, dropping to 3.5 percent and matching a level last seen in December 1969, Alexandra Steigrad reports in the New York Post. “A more encompassing measure that includes discouraged workers and the underemployed also fell, declining 0.3 percent points to 6.9 percent, meeting its lowest level in nearly 19 years and just off the all-time low of 6.8 percent.” Furthermore, “the jobless rate for Hispanics also hit a new record low, while the level for African Americans maintained its lowest level ever.” Click here to read more. “If the latest impeachment push continues to backfire, Democrats can thank their duplicitous House Intelligence chairman, Adam Schiff,” Kimberly Strassel writes in The Wall Street Journal. This week, a bombshell report revealed that Schiff’s team had advance knowledge of the complaint from the “whistleblower”—and withheld that fact from both his colleagues and the American public. “The timeline of this orchestrated campaign is another knock to the legitimacy of the so-called impeachment inquiry.” “With first daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump by his side, Google CEO Sundar Pichai signed a pledge Thursday in Dallas that the company will boost its investment in tech skills training for American workers,” Melissa Repko reports in The Dallas Morning News. Google, one of more than 350 companies to join the White House’s Pledge to America's Workers, “will create 250,000 training opportunities over the next five years.” “The same biased reporters who pushed two-and-a-half years of Russian conspiracy theories aren’t done with their vendetta against President Trump. They will stop at nothing until he is removed from office. These aren’t journalists, they’re political operatives. Now, they’re even trying to criminalize the president’s attempt to get to the bottom of the Russian collusion hoax,” Jenna Ellis Rives writes in the Washington Examiner. “First lady Melania Trump kicked off a two-day visit to Wyoming on Thursday, meeting with local fourth graders and touring a sliver of Wyoming backcountry as part of promotional efforts for her ‘Be Best’ initiative,” Nick Reynolds writes in the Casper Star-Tribune. “In Jackson Hole Mercantile, which faces the town square, many customers were caught by surprise, according to a shopkeeper, with some saying that the first lady’s visit ‘made their day.’” REAL NEWS PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO MISS US Unemployment Rate Falls to Five-Decade Low of 3.5% -New York Post America’s unemployment rate fell to a 50-year low last month, dropping to 3.5 percent and matching a level last seen in December 1969, Alexandra Steigrad reports. “The jobless rate for Hispanics also hit a new record low, while the level for African Americans maintained its lowest level ever.” More: 6.4 million jobs since Election Day—more than the population of Maryland! Trump's Transparency is Driving the Left Nuts (and Messing Up Their Impeachment Dreams) -Fox News “He wasn't supposed to release the transcripts. Or the whistleblower report. He was expected to do what any president would have done – what President Obama always did. Hide the evidence,” former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) writes. House Democrats “weren't counting on the president's unprecedented transparency. Nobody releases a transcript of calls between heads of state. But Donald Trump did.” 🎬 President Trump: “They’re trying to stop me because I’m fighting for you.” Schiff’s Shifty Timeline -The Wall Street Journal “If the latest impeachment push continues to backfire, Democrats can thank their duplicitous House Intelligence chairman, Adam Schiff,” Kimberly Strassel writes. This week, a bombshell report revealed that Schiff’s team had advance knowledge of the complaint from the “whistleblower”—and withheld that fact from the American public. 4 Pinocchios: “We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower.” – Adam Schiff First Lady Begins Wyoming Visit with Tour of Jackson -Casper Star-Tribune “First lady Melania Trump kicked off a two-day visit to Wyoming on Thursday, meeting with local fourth graders and touring a sliver of Wyoming backcountry as part of promotional efforts for her ‘Be Best’ initiative,” Nick Reynolds writes. “In Jackson Hole Mercantile, which faces the town square, many customers were caught by surprise, according to a shopkeeper, with some saying that the first lady’s visit ‘made their day.’”  Watch: First Lady explores Wyoming’s Snake River with 4th graders Trump Says Dems Out to 'Raid Medicare' to Fund Socialism; He Signs Executive Order Seeking Changes -Fox News President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to protect the current Medicare system—a stark contrast to Congressional Democrats’ “Medicare-for-All” scheme, Andrew O’Reilly reports. “Signing the order at the Villages – a retirement community north of Orlando – Trump singled out Democrats he said want to ‘totally obliterate Medicare.’”  Seniors will never lose their Medicare on President Trump’s watch. Ivanka Trump Joins Google CEO in Dallas for Tech Giant's $3.5M Pledge to White House Jobs Initiative -The Dallas Morning Star “With first daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump by his side, Google CEO Sundar Pichai signed a pledge Thursday in Dallas that the company will boost its investment in tech skills training for American workers,” Melissa Repko reports. Google is one of more than 350 companies to join the White House’s Pledge to America's Workers.