President Donald Trump Trump traveled Friday to a Washington, D.C., hotel to tout Republicans' plan to reform and cut taxes in an address to the National Association of Manufacturers. | Saul Loeb/Getty Images Trump pledges 'giant, beautiful, massive' tax cut

President Donald Trump extolled the broad strokes of his administration’s tax plan on Friday, calling it “a giant, beautiful, massive — the biggest ever in our country — tax cut.”

Trump unveiled the framework of his administration’s plan for tax reform and tax cuts in Indiana earlier this week, and he traveled Friday to a Washington, D.C., hotel to continue touting the proposal in an address to the National Association of Manufacturers.


The president reiterated that his tax plan would slash taxes for everyday Americans, simplify the tax code, level the playing field for American workers and return trillions of dollars that are kept offshore to reinvest into the U.S.

Trump said the policy of Washington when it comes to manufacturing has for decades been best summarized by a single term: surrender.

“They surrendered,” Trump said of past administrations. “Under my administration, the era of economic surrender is over, and the rebirth of American industry is beginning. America is winning again, and America is being respected again, and you see that happening all over.”

He added that his administration is working daily “to lift the burdens on our companies and on our workers so that they can thrive, compete and grow.”

“And at the very center of that plan,” he said, “is a giant, beautiful, massive — the biggest ever in our country — tax cut.”

The Senate Budget Committee released the text of a fiscal 2018 budget resolution that would allow Senate Republicans to overhaul the tax code on a party line vote. Republicans had unsuccessfully attempted to use the maneuver, called reconciliation, to repeal and replace Obamacare, though Trump maintains the chamber has the votes to pass repeal and will do so early next year.