White House in town pool report #5 - more Trump and departure

POTUS ended his remarks at 11:35 a.m. His remarks lasted 1 hour and 24 minutes.

Some other highlights from his speech. He told House Republicans and Speaker Johnson directly to figure out how to “let the money go directly to the people” on healthcare.

“Let the money not go to the big fat cats and the insurance companies,” he said. “Let the money go directly to the people where they can buy their own healthcare.”

POTUS added that “healthcare has never been our issue,” but that “it should be our issue.”

Trump said he plans to meet with drug companies soon to push them to lower prices.

Then, the president said he is meeting with oil companies.”

“I am also meeting with oil companies, you know what that’s about. We’ve got a lot of oil to drill, which is going to bring down oil prices even further,” POTUS said.

On losing the midterms: “We got to win the midterms because if we do not win the midterms… they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.”

POTUS did not take questions from pool.

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Ana Ceballos

Washington Correspondent, Los Angeles Times

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