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RNC Committee on Arrangements
July 15, 2024

Program for Monday, July 15, 2024

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Today, as we kick off the 2024 Republican National Convention (RNC), history is set to be made when President Donald J. Trump is officially nominated as the Republican presidential nominee by a roll call of GOP delegations from all 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia.

The theme of the evening, Make America Wealthy Once Again, highlights President Donald J. Trump's vision to unleash America’s economic potential as well as the broad and growing support for his America First economic policies . After years of historic inflation, sky-high interest rates, record gas prices, unaffordable housing, all-time high credit debt, and job-killing regulations, America needs to return to the widespread economic prosperity that we experienced during the first Trump administration.

Tonight, we will hear from an array of speakers who have been left behind in Biden’s America, ranging from a struggling single mother to businessowners to union workers. President Trump’s plan for a second term includes beating Bidenflation and reducing prices, creating jobs, defending the American worker, and making housing affordable to restore the American Dream.
A list of today’s program speakers follows:

SPEAKERS
• Musical Performance by Chris Janson
• Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (GA-14)
• Lt. Governor Mark Robinson (NC)
• Representative Wesley Hunt (TX-38)
• Representative John James (MI-10)
• Sara Workman, Every Day American
• Senator Katie Britt (AL)
• Senator Tim Scott (SC)
• Governor Glenn Youngkin (VA)
• Bob Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods
• Governor Kristi Noem (SD)
• Robert "Bobby" Bartels, Every Day American
• Representative Byron Donalds (FL-19)
• David Sacks, Former CEO of Yammer
• Vanessa Faura , Every Day American
• Charlie Kirk, CEO of Turning Point USA
• Senator Marsha Blackburn (TN)
• Mark Laws, Every Day American
• Benjamin Josephs, Every Day American
• Amber Rose, Mother & Entrepreneur
• Linda Fornos, Every Day American
• Sean O'Brien, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters

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1^st procedural session – Nomination of President and Vice President

Roll call of states and nomination speeches by:

• Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufman
• Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald
• Speaker Mike Johnson

Florida was the state that put President Trump over the top

Nomination of the vice president

RNC Committee on Arrangements
July 16, 2024

Program for Tuesday, July 16, 2024

6-6:30PM

• Chairman Michael Whatley, Republican National Committee

6:30-7PM

• Sen. Ron Johnson (WI)
• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA)

7-7:30PM

• Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (NC)
• Rep. Wesley Hunt (TX)
• Rep. John James (MI)
• Sara Workman, everyday American
• Sen. Katie Britt (AL)

7:30-8PM

• Sen. Tim Scott (SC)
• Gov. Glenn Youngkin (VA)
• Bob Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods
• Gov. Kristi Noem (SD)

8-8:30PM

• Robert “Bobby” Bartels, everyday American
• Rep. Byron Donalds (FL)
• David Sacks, former CEO of Yammer
• Vanessa Faura, everyday American

8:30-9PM

• Charlie Kirk
• Sen. Marsha Blackburn (TN)
• Mark Laws, everyday American
• Benjamin Joseph, everyday American

9-9:30PM

• Amber Rose
• Linda Fornos, everyday American

9:30-10PM

• Sean O’Brien, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters

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MAGA Inc.
July 15, 2024

RNC Wraps Up A Great First Day

The Republican National Convention kicked off day one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Monday under the theme "Make America Wealthy Once Again."
 
Ohio Senator J.D. Vance was nominated for Vice President of the United States to wide praise.
 
President Donald Trump made an entrance to raucous applause.
 
Here are some highlights from day one:
 
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin: "Under President Trump, America had high growth and low inflation. Under Joe Biden, America has low growth and high inflation...Under Donald J. Trump we once again will have that rip-roaring economy that lifts up all Americans."
 
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott: “If you didn’t believe in miracles before Saturday—you better be believing right now…Because on Saturday, the devil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle—but an American lion got back up on his feet, and he roared!”
 
Florida Rep. Byron Donalds: "Donald Trump believes every parent deserves a choice and every child deserves a chance."
 
President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Sean O'Brien: "Never forget, American workers own this nation. We are not renters. We are not tenants. But the corporate elite treat us like squatters and that is a crime. We've got to fix it."
 
Moms For America Action Executive Director Vanessa Faura: “To my fellow Hispanic Americans and to ALL Americans: If you believe in faith, family, freedom, financial stability—join me in voting for Donald Trump this November!"
 
Model Amber Rose: "When you go to the store and buy food for your family, you're shocked. When you fill up your gas tank, you're pissed...Inflation is out of control and you know in your heart it was not like this under Donald Trump."
 
Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue: "Donald Trump loves this country, he loves us, and he knows how to build and create. He understands that lasting prosperity is built on the foundation of family, faith, work, and freedom."
 
Arizona mother Sara Workman: "The Democrats' open border policies have shattered my family...my husband fell victim to the drug epidemic. It tore our family apart and now I raise my son alone. But I know there is hope...with God in our hearts and Donald Trump back in the White House."

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Democratic National Committee
July 15, 2024

Trump’s RNC Day 1: Leave Working Families Behind Again

In response to Donald Trump’s allies pushing his failed MAGAnomics agenda throughout the first day of the RNC convention, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement:

“Donald Trump’s GOP kicked off their convention tonight pledging to bring back his failed MAGAnomics agenda that delivered nothing but empty promises to working Americans after four years of handouts to the ultra-rich on the backs of the middle class. The truth is that Trump, J.D. Vance, and their MAGA allies’ extreme Project 2025 platform would devastate working families with skyrocketing inflation after Trump’s last tax scam incentivized outsourcing and let billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the middle class for the first time ever. This November, voters will reject the Trump-Vance ticket’s extreme and expensive MAGAnomics agenda that puts the ultra-rich ahead of the rest of us — and reelect President Biden and Vice President Harris, who are building the economy from the bottom up and middle out.”

Donald Trump’s MAGAnomics tax scam gifted handouts to the ultra-rich and big corporations while leaving working families behind – and he’s promising to do it all over again.

Forbes: “Trump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018”

CBS News: “Two years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind”

The Guardian: “They were billed as a ‘middle-class miracle’ but according to a new book Donald Trump’s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.”

Washington Post Analysis: “The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.”

Vanity Fair: “Donald Trump Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term: Report”

Trump is rooting for the U.S. economy to crash for his own political gain, saying he doesn’t “want to be Herbert Hoover…”

Trump: “And when there’s a crash — I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover. The one president I just don’t want to be, Herbert Hoover.”

Daily Beast: “Donald Trump admitted Monday that he wants a severe economic downturn to happen during the next year, because it will help his odds of winning the presidential election.”

CNN: “Trump says he hopes any economic crash would happen before he could serve a possible second term.”

The Hill: “Trump says he hopes economy crashes in next 12 months: ‘I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover’”

USA Today: “Donald Trump says he hopes economy tanks this election year ‘because I don't want to be Herbert Hoover’”

… even though he already is. Trump’s disastrous MAGAnomics agenda left him with the worst jobs record since the Great Depression.

Fortune: “Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover”

Washington Post: “President Trump took office at the crest of the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. He leaves presiding over the worst labor market in modern U.S. history, as an already-sputtering economic recovery has turned negative.”

Bloomberg: “Trump’s Jobs Record Fell Short of Promises Even Before the Virus”

USA Today: “Fact check: Chart of job growth by president shows historic unemployment under Trump”

Newsweek: “Trump Leaving Office With 3M Less Jobs Than When He Entered, Worst Record Since Depression”

And now, Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would double down on his economic failure and continue to help his ultra-rich friends while leaving the middle class behind.

Trump: “I will never let the Trump tax cuts … I will never let them be taken away.”

Trump: “You’re all people that have a lot of money … You’re rich as hell … We’re gonna give you tax cuts.”

Trump: “We will replace Biden’s tax hikes with the beautiful Trump tax cuts. You know, we have to extend the tax cuts.”

Trump on whether his second term tax policies would echo those of his first term: “Yes, and I’d do even more taxes.”

Washington Post: “The former president’s closest economic advisers are plotting an aggressive new set of tax cuts to push on the campaign trail and from the Oval Office if he wins a second term. Trump and his advisers have discussed deeper cuts to both individual and corporate tax rates that would build on his controversial 2017 tax law. … Trump’s advisers, though, have discussed proposals to make deeper cuts to the overall corporate tax rate, potentially to as low as 15 percent, or to use the revenue from the proposed tariffs to pay a dividend to U.S. households. Further cutting corporate taxes … would primarily benefit large firms.”

Bloomberg: “[Trump] intends to center his economic plans on extending and deepening the Republican tax cuts from 2017.”

Economic Policy Institute: “The TCJA overwhelmingly benefited the rich and corporations while overlooking working families”

Vox: “Trump said this tax break was for small businesses. It’s giving $17 billion to millionaires this year”

“If many average Americans aren’t noticing or loving the tax cut bill yet, it might be understandable — it benefits the wealthy by design. And a congressional report released this week shows that one specific new deduction for so-called ‘pass-through’ companies is heavily benefiting the rich. … The Republican tax bill cut the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent and disproportionately benefits corporations and the wealthy.”