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Donald Trump: “It would have cost us a trillion dollars [to stay in the…”

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President Trump's Speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner in Washington, D.C.

Published | Video Starts at 1:07:07

On day one, I declared a national energy emergency to drill, baby, drill. We're drilling. Oh, we're drilling. I withdrew from the unbelievably expensive for us parrot the Paris Climate Accord. So we were paying. It would have cost us a trillion dollars [to stay in the Paris Climate Accord]. A trillion. China doesn't come into it till like 2035. Russia is based on a 1992 standard. When it was, the air was dirty, everybody was. (1:07:07–1:07:10)

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Asserts that staying in the Paris Climate Accord would have cost the U.S. a trillion dollars.

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