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President Biden's Country of the Matrimony Accost

Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, and our First Lady and 2d Gentleman, members of Congress and the Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court, my beau Americans: Last year, COVID-19 kept u.s.a. apart. This year, nosotros're finally together again.

This evening — tonight we encounter as Democrats, Republicans, and independents, simply, most importantly, as Americans with a duty to one another, to America, to the American people, and to the Constitution, and an unwavering resolve that freedom will e'er triumph over tyranny.

Six — cheers. Half-dozen days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to milkshake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. He thought he could curl into Ukraine and the earth would scroll over. Instead, he met with a wall of force he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people.

Ukraine

From President Zelenskyy to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their courage, their determination literally inspires the globe. Groups of citizens blocking tanks with their bodies. Everyone from students to retirees, to teachers turned soldiers defending their homeland.

And in this struggle — President Zelenskyy said in his speech to the European Parliament, "Light volition win over darkness."

The Ukrainian Ambassador to the The states is here tonight sitting with the Outset Lady. Allow each of u.s., if you're able to stand, stand and send an unmistakable signal to the world and Ukraine. Thank you. Thank y'all, thank you, cheers.

She'due south bright, she'due south stiff, and she'due south resolved.

Yes. We, the United States of America, stand with the Ukrainian people.

Throughout our history, we've learned this lesson: When dictators exercise not pay a toll for their aggression, they crusade more chaos; they keep moving; and the costs, the threats to the America — and America, to the world keeps rising.

That's why the NATO Alliance was created: to secure peace and stability in Europe after World State of war Two.

The United States is a member, along with 29 other nations. It matters. American diplomacy matters. American resolve matters.

Putin's latest attack on Ukraine was premeditated and totally unprovoked. He rejected repeated efforts at diplomacy.

He thought the Westward and NATO wouldn't reply. He thought he could split up us at dwelling, in this chamber, in this nation. He thought he could divide united states in Europe also.

Merely Putin was wrong. We are set. We are united. And that's what we did: Nosotros stayed united.

Nosotros prepared extensively and carefully. We spent months building coalitions of other liberty-loving nations in Europe and the Americas to — from America to the Asian and African continents to face up Putin.

Similar many of you, I spent countless hours unifying our European Allies.

We shared with the world, in advance, what we knew Putin was planning and precisely how he would endeavour to falsely and justify his aggression.

We countered Russia'south lies with the truth. And now — now that he's acted, the gratis globe is belongings him accountable, along with 27 members of the European union — including France, Deutschland, Italian republic — as well equally countries like the Britain, Canada, Japan, Korea, Commonwealth of australia, New Zealand, and many others. Even Switzerland are inflicting pain on Russian federation and supporting the people of Ukraine.

Putin is now isolated from the earth more than he has always been.

Together. Together. Together, along with our Allies, we are right now enforcing powerful economic sanctions. We're cutting off Russia'south largest banks from the international financial arrangement; preventing Russia's Fundamental Depository financial institution from defending the Russian ruble, making Putin'southward $630 billion state of war fund worthless. Nosotros're choking Russian federation'due south admission, we're choking Russia's admission to technology that will sap its economic forcefulness and weaken its military for years to come.

This evening, I say to the Russian oligarchs and the decadent leaders who've bilked billions of dollars off this violent regime: No more than.

The United States — I hateful information technology. The United States Department of Justice is assembling a defended task force to go afterward the crimes of the Russian oligarchs.

We're joining with European Allies to observe and seize their yachts, their luxury apartments, their individual jets. We're coming for your ill-begotten gains.

Russian Oligarchs

And, this evening, I'm announcing that we will join our Allies in closing off American air space to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional clasp on their economy.

He has no thought what'south coming.

The ruble has already lost 30 percent of its value, the Russian stock market has lost 40 percent of its value, and trading remains suspended.

The Russian economy is reeling, and Putin alone is the one to blame.

Together with our Allies, we're providing back up to the Ukrainians in their fight for liberty: military assistance, economic assistance, humanitarian help. We're giving more than a billion dollars in direct assistance to Ukraine. And we'll keep to aid the Ukrainian people as they defend their country and help ease their suffering.

Assist to Ukraine

But let me be clear: Our forces are not engaged and will non engage in the conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine. Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine but to defend our NATO Allies in the event that Putin decides to keep moving west.

For that purpose, we have mobilized American basis forces, air squadrons, transport deployments to protect NATO countries, including Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

And every bit I've fabricated crystal clear, the The states and our Allies will defend every inch of territory that is NATO territory with the full forcefulness of our commonage power — every single inch.

And we're articulate-eyed. The Ukrainians are fighting back with pure courage. But the next few days, weeks, and months will be difficult on them.

Putin has unleashed violence and chaos. Merely while he may make gains on the battleground, he will pay a continuing loftier cost over the long run.

And a pound of Ukrainian people — the proud, proud people — pound for pound, prepare to fight with every inch of (inaudible) they have. They've known 30 years of independence — take repeatedly shown that they volition not tolerate anyone who tries to have their country backwards.

To all Americans, I'll be honest with you, as I've e'er promised I would be. A Russian dictator infa- — invading a foreign country has costs effectually the earth. And I'm taking robust activeness to make sure the pain of our sanctions is targeted at the Russian economy and that nosotros employ every tool at our disposal to protect American businesses and consumers.

This night, I can announce the United states of america has worked with xxx other countries to release sixty 1000000 barrels of oil from reserves around the world. America will lead that try, releasing xxx million barrels of our own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And we stand set up to do more if necessary, united with our Allies.

These steps will assistance blunt gas prices here at dwelling house. But I know news about what's happening can seem alarming to all Americans. Only I want you to know: We're going to be okay. Nosotros're going to be okay.

When the history of this era is written, Putin'due south war on Ukraine will take left Russia weaker and the remainder of the earth stronger.

Putin's War

While information technology shouldn't and while information technology shouldn't have taken something so terrible for people around the world to see what's at stake, now anybody sees it clearly.

We see the unity amidst leaders of nations, a more unified Europe, a more unified West.

We see unity among the people who are gathering in cities in big crowds effectually the world, even in Russia, to demonstrate their back up for the people of Ukraine.

In the boxing between commonwealth and autocracies, democracies are rising to the moment and the world is conspicuously choosing the side of peace and security.

This is the real examination, and information technology'south going to have time. And then, permit united states of america go along to describe inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people.

To our fellow Ukrainian Americans who forged a deep bail that connects our two nations: We stand with you lot. We stand with yous.

Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of Ukrainian people. He'll never — he'll never extinguish their love of freedom. And he will never, never weaken the resolve of the free world.

We see tonight in an America that has lived through two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced. The pandemic has been punishing. And so many families are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to keep up with the rising cost of food, gas, housing, and so much more than.

I understand, like many of you did. My dad had to leave his home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to notice work. So, like many of y'all, I grew upwardly in a family when the price of nutrient went upwardly, it was felt throughout the family; it had an impact.

That's why i of the get-go things I did as President was fight to laissez passer the American Rescue Plan, because people were hurting. We needed to act and we did.

American Rescue Program

American Rescue Plan

Few pieces of legislation have washed more than at a critical moment in our history to lift us out of a crisis. It fueled our efforts to vaccinate the nation and combat COVID-19. It delivered immediate economical relief to tens of millions of Americans. It helped put food on the table. Recall those long lines of cars waiting for hours simply to get a box of food put in their trunk? It cut the price of healthcare insurance. And as my dad used to say, it gave the people "just a picayune chip of breathing room."

And unlike the $ii trillion tax cut passed in the previous administration that benefitted the meridian 1 percent of Americans, the American Rescue Plan helped working people and left no 1 backside. And, folks — and it worked. Information technology worked.

It worked and created jobs — lots of jobs. In fact, our economy created over vi.5 million new jobs only last year, more jobs in one year than ever before in the history of the United states of America.

Economic Progress Report

Economic Progress Report

The economic system grew at a charge per unit of 5.seven final yr — the strongest growth rate in 40 years and the first step in bringing fundamental change to our economy that hasn't worked for working people in this nation for too long.

For the by 40 years, we were told that tax breaks for those at the top and benefits would trickle downward and anybody would — would do good.

Merely that trickle-down theory led to a weaker economic growth, lower wages, bigger deficits, and a widening gap between the top and anybody else in the — in most a century.

Look, Vice President Harris and I ran for role — and I realize we have fundamental disagreements on this — just ran for role with a new economic vision for America: invest in America; educate Americans; grow the workforce; build the economy from the bottom upwards and the centre out, not from the superlative down. Because we know when the middle class grows — when the middle class grows, the poor go way up and the wealthy do very well.

America used to have the all-time roads, bridges, and airports on Globe. And at present our infrastructure is ranked 13th in the world. We won't be able to compete for the jobs of the 21st century if we don't fix it.

That's why information technology was and so of import to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. And I thank my Republican friends who joined to invest and rebuild America — the single biggest investment in history.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Information technology was a bipartisan try, and I want to thank the members of both parties who worked to make it happen. We're done talking almost infrastructure weeks. Nosotros're now talking nigh an infrastructure decade.

And look, it's going to — it's going to transform America to put us on a path to win the economical competition of the 21st century that we face up with the residual of the world, particularly Red china.

I've told Xi Jinping: It'due south never been a good bet to bet against the American people.

We'll create good jobs for millions of Americans — modernizing roads, airports, ports, waterways — all across America. And we'll do it to withstand the devastating effects of climate crisis and promote environmental justice.

Nosotros'll build a national network of 500,000 electrical vehicle charging stations; brainstorm to replace the poisonous pb pipes, so every kid, every American has clean water to drink at home and at school.

We're going to provide — provide affordable loftier-speed Internet for every American — rural, suburban, urban, and Tribal communities. Four yard projects have already been announced. Many of you have announced them in your districts.

And tonight, I'thou announcing that, this year, we will kickoff fixing over 65,000 miles of highway and 1,500 bridges in disrepair.

Highways

Repairs Begin on 65k Highways

And, folks, when nosotros employ taxpayers' dollars to rebuild America, we're going to practice it past ownership American. Purchase American products. Support American jobs.

The federal authorities spends about $600 billion a year to keep this land condom and secure. There's been a police force on the books for most a century to brand sure taxpayers' dollars support American jobs and businesses. Every administration — Democrat and Republican — says they'll do it, but we're really doing it.

We'll purchase America to make sure every — everything from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the steel on highway guardrails is made in America from beginning to end. All of it. All of it.

But, folks, to compete for the jobs of the future, we also need to level the playing field with China and other competitors. That'south why it's so important to pass the bipartisan Innovation Act sitting in Congress that will make record investments in emerging technologies and American manufacturing.

Bipartisan Innovation Human action

We used to invest almost 2 percent of our Gdp in enquiry and evolution. We don't now. Can't — People's republic of china is.

Allow me give y'all one example why it'south and then of import to pass.

If you travel 20 miles east of Columbus, Ohio, yous'll find a thousand empty acres of land. It won't expect like much. But if y'all cease and look closely, y'all'll see a "field of dreams" — the ground on which America's future will be built.

That's where Intel, the American visitor that helped build Silicon Valley, is going to build a $20 billion semiconductor "mega site." Up to eight country-of-the-art factories in one place. Ten thousand new jobs. And in those factories, the average job — about $135 — $135,000 a year.

Some of the most sophisticated manufacturing in the world to make computer chips the size of a fingertip that power the world and everyday lives, from smartphones, technology that — the Internet — technology that'southward yet to be invented.

Simply that's just the commencement.

Intel's CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who is here tonight — and I don't know where Pat is. Pat? At that place you become, Pat. Stand up. Pat came to see me, and he told me they're ready to increase their investment from $xx billion to $100 billion.

That would be the biggest investment in manufacturing in American history. And all they're waiting for is for yous to pass this beak.

So, let's not await any longer. Send information technology to my desk, I'll sign it, and we will really have off in a big way.

And, folks, Intel is not alone. There'south something happening in America. Just await around, and yous'll see an amazing story — the rebirth of pride that comes from stamping products "Made in America," the revitalization of American manufacturing.

Companies are choosing to build new factories here when only a few years ago, they would accept gone overseas. That'southward what is happening.

Ford is investing $xi billion in electric vehicles, creating 11,000 jobs across the land.

GM is making the largest investment in its history — $vii billion to build electric vehicles, creating 4,000 jobs in Michigan.

All told, 369,000 new manufacturing jobs were created in America final year alone.

Folks, powered by people I've met — like JoJo Burgess from generations of marriage steelworkers in Pittsburgh, who'southward here with us this evening. Where are yous, JoJo? There you go. Thanks, buddy.

Every bit Ohio — as Ohio Sherrod Brown says, "It's time to coffin the label 'Rust Belt.'" It's time to see the — the — what used to be called the Rust Belt become the — the home of a meaning resurgence of manufacturing.

And with all the bright spots in our economy — record chore growth, higher wages — besides many families are struggling to proceed upward with their bills.

Inflation is robbing them of gains they thought otherwise they would be able to feel.

I get it. That's why my top priority is getting prices under control.

Inflation

I get it. That's why my top priority is getting prices under control.

Look, our economy roared back faster than almost anyone predicted, merely the pandemic meant that businesses had a hard time hiring enough people because of the pandemic to keep upwardly production in their factories. Then, y'all didn't accept people making those beams that went into buildings because they were out — the factory was closed.

The pandemic besides disrupted the global supply concatenation. Factories shut. When that happens, information technology takes longer to brand goods and become them to the warehouses, to the stores, and go — prices go up.

Await at cars last yr. I 3rd of all the inflation was because of automobile sales. In that location weren't enough semiconductors to make all the cars that people wanted to buy.

And guess what? Prices of automobiles went way up, especially used vehicles besides.

And so, we have a choice.

One mode to fight aggrandizement is to drive down wages and make Americans poorer.

I think I take a better thought to fight inflation: Lower your costs, not your wages.

And, folks, that means make more cars and semiconductors in America, more infrastructure and innovation in America, more than goods moving faster and cheaper in America, more jobs where you can earn a adept living in America.

Instead of relying on strange supply chains, let's make information technology in America.

Look, economists phone call this increasing the productive capacity of our economic system.

I phone call it edifice a improve America.

Building a Better America

My plan to fight inflation will lower your costs and lower the deficit. Seventeen Nobel laureates in economics said my program will ease long-term inflationary pressures. Tiptop business leaders and, I believe, most Americans support the plan.

And hither'south the programme.

Starting time, cutting the toll of prescription drugs. Nosotros pay more for the aforementioned drug produced by the same visitor in America than any other land in the earth.

Just look at insulin. I in 10 Americans has diabetes. In Virginia, I met a thirteen-yr-old boy — the handsome young man standing upward there, Joshua Davis. He and his dad both have Blazon i diabetes, which ways they demand insulin every single day.

Insulin costs well-nigh $10 a vial to make. That'due south what it costs the — the pharmaceutical company. But drug companies charge families like Joshua and his dad upwards to xxx times that amount.

I spoke with Joshua'south mom. Imagine what it's like to await at your kid who needs insulin to stay good for you and have no idea how in God's name you're going to be able to pay for information technology — what it does to your family unit, but what it does to your dignity, your ability to look your child in the eye, to be the parent you wait yourself to be. I really mean information technology. Think about that. That'southward what I think almost.

You lot know, yesterday — Joshua is here tonight, merely yesterday was his birthday. Happy altogether, buddy, past the fashion.

For Joshua and 200,000 other young people with Blazon 1 diabetes, let's cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month and then anybody can beget it. And drug companies volition exercise very, very well — their profit margin.

Cost of Insulin

And while we're at it — I know we have neat disagreements on this floor with this — let'due south let Medicare negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. They already set the price for VA drugs.

Look, the American Rescue Plan is helping millions of families on Affordable Care Act plans to salve them $two,400 a year on their health premiums. Allow'southward close the coverage gap and brand those savings permanent.

And 2nd, let's cutting energy costs for families an average of $500 a year by combatting climate change.

Let'due south provide an investment and revenue enhancement credit to weatherize your abode and your business to be energy efficient and get a revenue enhancement credit for it; double America's make clean free energy product in solar, wind, and and so much more than; lower the cost of electric vehicles, saving some other $80 a month that you've not going to have to pay at the pump.

Energy Efficiency

Folks — 3rd — the third affair we tin can practice to change the standard of living for hardworking folks is cutting the price of childcare. Cut the cost of childcare.

Folks, if you live in a major city in America, y'all tin pay up to $fourteen,000 a yr for childcare per child.

I was a unmarried dad for five years, raising ii kids. I had a lot of help, though. I had a mom, a dad, a blood brother, and sis that really helped.

But centre-class and working folks shouldn't have to pay more than than 7 percent of their income to care for their young children.

My plan would cut the cost of childcare in half for well-nigh families and assistance parents, including millions of women who left the workforce during the pandemic because they couldn't afford childcare to be able to get dorsum to work, generating economic growth.

Cost of Child Intendance

Merely my programme doesn't stop there. It also includes home and long-term care, more than affordable housing, pre-Grand for iii- and four-year-olds. All of these will lower costs to families.

And nether my plan, nobody — let me say this again — nobody earning less than $400,000 a twelvemonth volition pay an boosted penny in new taxes. Not a single penny.

I may exist wrong, but my guess is, if we took a underground ballot in this floor, that we'd all agree that the present tax arrangement ain't fair. We have to set it.

I'g not looking to punish anybody, merely let's make corporations and wealthy Americans start paying their fair share.

Look, terminal year — like Chris Coons and Tom Carper and my distinguished congresswoman — we come from the state of corporate America. At that place are more corporations incorporated in Delaware than every other state in America combined. And I yet won 36 years in a row. The point is: Even they understand they should pay just a fair share.

Last year, 55 of the Fortune 500 companies earned $40 billion in profit and paid nothing in federal taxes.

No, look, information technology's not fair. That'due south why I proposed a 15 percentage minimum tax rate for corporations.

Nosotros've got — and that's why in the G7 and other meetings overseas we were able to put together — I was able to be somewhat helpful — 130 countries to concur on a global minimum taxation charge per unit — and so companies tin can't go out of paying their taxes at domicile by shipping jobs and factories overseas. It'll raise billions of dollars.

And that'southward why I've proposed closing loopholes for the very wealthy who don't pay — who pay a lower taxation charge per unit than a teacher and a fire fighter.

So that's my programme. But we have — nosotros'll go into more particular subsequently.

I'yard going to grow — we will grow the economic system, lower the costs to families.

So, what are we waiting for? Let's get this done. We all know nosotros've got to make changes.

Folks, and while you lot're at it, confirm my nominees for the Federal Reserve which plays a critical role in fighting aggrandizement.

My plan will not simply lower costs and give families a fair shot, it will lower the deficit.

The previous administration not only ballooned the deficit with those tax cuts for the very wealthy and corporations, it undermined the watchdogs — the job of those to proceed pandemic relief funds from beingness wasted. Call up we had those debates about whether or not those watchdogs should be able to see, every day, how much money was existence spent, where information technology — was information technology going to the correct place?

In my assistants, the watchdogs are back. And nosotros're going afterward the criminals who stole billions of relief money meant for small business concern and millions of Americans.

Pandemic Fraud

And tonight, I'g announcing that the Justice Section will presently proper name a master prosecutor for pandemic fraud.

And, look I think we all concord — cheers — past the end of this yr, the deficit will exist down to less than half what it was earlier I took office — the only President ever to cut the deficit by more than $1 trillion in a unmarried twelvemonth.

Lowering your costs too meant enervating more competition. I'm a capitalist, just commercialism without competition is non capitalism. Capitalism without contest is exploitation. Information technology drives up prices.

When corporations take to compete, their profits go upward and your prices go up — when they don't have to compete.

Small businesses and family farmers and ranchers — I demand not tell some of my Republican friends from those states — guess what? You got iv basic meatpacking facilities. That's information technology. Yous play with them or you don't go to play at all. And you pay a hell of a lot more — a hell of a lot more because there'due south but four.

See what's happening with ocean carriers moving goods in and out of America. During the pandemic, near half a dozen or less foreign-owned companies raised prices by as much every bit 1,000 percent and fabricated record profits.

This night, I'm announcing a crackdown on those companies overcharging American businesses and consumers.

Folks and equally Wall Street firms take over more nursing homes, quality in those homes has gone downwards and costs have gone up. That ends on my scout.

Medicare is going to gear up college standards for nursing homes and brand sure your loved ones become the intendance they deserve and that they expect, and they volition look at that closely.

Nosotros're too going to cut costs to keep the economy going stiff and giving workers a fair shot; provide more training and apprenticeships; hire them based on skills, not simply their degrees.

Let's pass the Paycheck Fairness Deed and paid leave raise the minimum wage to $fifteen an 60 minutes; and extend the Child Tax Credit and so no one has to raise a family in poverty.

Paycheck Fairness Act

Let's increase Pell Grants; increase our historic support for HBCUs; and invest in what Jill, our Starting time Lady, who teaches full-fourth dimension, calls America'southward best-kept undercover: customs colleges.

Await, permit's pass the PRO Act. When a majority of workers want to course a union, they shouldn't be able to be stopped.

When nosotros invest in our workers and we build an economy from the bottom upward and the centre out, together we tin can do something we oasis't done in a long time: build a better America.

For more than two years, COVID has impacted every determination in our lives and the life of this nation. And I know you're tired, frustrated, and wearied. That doesn't even count the close to a meg people who sit at a dining room table or a kitchen table and look at an empty chair considering they lost somebody.

Merely I also know this: Because of the progress we've made, because of your resilience and the tools that we take been provided by this Congress, tonight I can say we're moving forward safely, dorsum to a norm- — more normal routines.

Nosotros've reached a new moment in the fight against COVID-19 where severe cases are down to a level not seen since July of last year.

But a few days ago, the Middle for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new mask guidelines. Nether the new guidelines, most Americans in most of the country tin now go mask free.

And based on projections — and based on projections, more of the country will reach a point beyond — that point across the next couple of weeks.

And thanks to the progress we've made in the past year, COVID-nineteen no longer need control our lives. I know some are talking virtually "living with COVID-19." But this night, I say that we never volition simply accept living with COVID-19; we'll continue to gainsay the virus as we do other diseases.

And because this virus mutates and spreads, we take to stay on guard. And here are iv common sense steps equally we movement frontwards safely, in my view:

COVID-19

First, stay protected with vaccines and treatments. We know how incredibly effective vaccines are. If yous're vaccinated and boosted, y'all have the highest caste of protection, and we'll never requite upwardly on vaccinating more Americans.

Now, I know parents with kids under five are eager to run into their vaccines authorized for their children. Scientists are working hard to become that done, and we'll be ready with plenty of vaccines if and when they do.

We're already — we are also ready with anti-viral treatments. If you get COVID-xix, the Pfizer pill reduces your chances of ending up in the infirmary past 90 percent.

I've ordered more pills than anyone in the world has. Pfizer is working overtime to get us a 1000000 pills this month and more than double that adjacent month.

And now we're launching the "Test to Treat" initiative so people can get tested at a chemist's and, if they prove positive, receive the antiviral pills on the spot at no toll.

And folks if y'all're immunocompromised or have some other vulnerability, we have treatments and free high-quality masks.

Nosotros're leaving no one behind or ignoring anyone's needs as we move forward.

On testing, nosotros've made hundreds of millions of tests bachelor, and you can society them for free to your doorstep.

And we've already ordered gratuitous tests. If you already ordered free tests, tonight I'm announcing y'all tin order some other group of tests. COVID — go to COVIDTests.gov, starting adjacent week, and you tin can get more tests.

Covid Tests

Order More Free Covid Tests On covidtests.gov

2nd, we must prepare for new variants.

Over the by — we've gotten much ameliorate at detecting new variants. If necessary, nosotros'll exist able to deploy new vaccines inside 100 days instead of maybe months or years. And if Congress provides the funds we need, nosotros'll have new stockpiles of tests, masks, pills ready if needed.

I can't promise a new variant won't come, but I ca- — I tin promise you lot we'll do everything within our power to be fix if it does.

3rd, we tin can end the shutdown of schools and businesses. Nosotros have the tools nosotros need.

It's time for America to become dorsum to piece of work and fill our groovy downtowns again with people. People working from home tin feel safe and begin to return to their offices.

We're doing that here in the federal regime. The vast bulk of federal workers will once once again work in person.

Our schools are open up. Let'southward continue information technology that way. Our kids need to be in school.

With 75 pct of adult Americans fully vaccinated and hospitalizations down by 77 percent, most Americans can remove their masks and stay in the classroom and movement forrard safely.

We achieved this because we provided free vaccines, treatments, tests, and masks. Of course, continuing this costs money, so it will not surprise y'all I'll be back to see yous all. And re- — I'1000 going to soon transport a request to Congress.

The vast majority of Americans have used these tools and may want to once again — we may demand them again. So I expect Congress — and I hope yous'll pass that quickly.

Fourth, we'll continue vaccinating the earth. We've sent 475 1000000 vaccine doses to 112 countries — more than whatever nation on World. We won't stop, because you can't build a wall high enough to go along out a —

A vaccine — the vaccine tin can stop the spread of these diseases.

Y'all know, nosotros've lost and then much in COVID-nineteen. Time with one another. The worst of all, the much loss of life.

Let'south apply this moment to reset. So, terminate looking at COVID as a partisan dividing line. See information technology for what it is: a God-awful disease.

Allow'due south stop sending — seeing each other as enemies and kickoff seeing each other for who nosotros are: swain Americans.

Covid-19 Reset

Await nosotros tin can't change how divided we've been. That was a long fourth dimension in coming. But we can change how to move forward on COVID-xix and other bug that we must face up together.

I recently visited New York Metropolis Police Department days after the funerals of Officer Wilbert Mora and his partner, Officer Jason Rivera.

They were responding to a 911 call when a homo shot and killed them with a stolen gun.

Officer Mora was 27 years old. Officer Rivera was 22 years old. Both Dominican Americans who grew up in the same streets that they later chose to patrol every bit constabulary officers.

I spoke with their families, and I told them that we are forever in debt for their sacrifices and we'll carry on their mission to restore the trust and safe in every customs it deserves.

Like some of you that have been around for a while — I've worked with you on these bug for a long fourth dimension. I know what works: Investing in crime prevention and customs policing — cops who walk the beat, who know the neighborhood, and who can restore trust and safety.

Crime Prevention

Let's not abandon our streets or cull between safety and equal justice. Let'due south come together and protect our communities, restore trust, and hold law enforcement accountable.

That's why the Justice Section has required body cameras, banned chokeholds, and restricted no-knock warrants for its officers.

That'due south why the American Rescue Plan that you all provided $350 billion that cities, states, and counties can employ to hire more police force, invest in more proven strategies like customs violence intermission, trusted messengers breaking the cycle of violence and trauma and giving young people some hope.

We should all concur the answer is not to defund the law.

It'due south to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them. Fund them with the resources and training — resources and training they demand to protect our communities.

I inquire Democrats and Republicans akin to pass my budget and keep our neighborhoods safety.

And we'll do everything in my power to crack downwards on gun trafficking of ghost guns that you lot can buy online, assemble at habitation — no serial numbers, can't be traced.

I enquire Congress to pass proven measures to reduce gun violence. Pass universal background checks. Why should anyone on the terrorist list be able to purchase a weapon. Why? Why?

And, folks, ban assault weapons with high-capacity magazines that hold up to 100 rounds. You recollect the deer are wearing Kevlar vests?

Await, repeal the liability shield that makes gun manufacturers the only industry in America that can't be sued — the but one. Imagine had we done that with the tobacco manufactures.

These laws don't infringe on the 2nd Subpoena; they relieve lives.

Gun Violence

The most primal correct in America is the right to vote and take information technology counted. And look, it's under assault.

In state after state, new laws have been passed not only to suppress the vote — nosotros've been there before — but to subvert the entire election. We can't let this happen.

Tonight, I telephone call on the Senate to pass — pass the Freedom to Vote Human activity. Pass the John Lewis Act — Voting Rights Deed. And while you're at information technology, pass the Disembalm Act and then Americans know who is funding our elections.

Look, tonight, I'd — I'd like to award someone who has defended his life to serve this land: Justice Breyer — an Army veteran, Ramble scholar, retiring Justice of the United states of america Supreme Court.

Justice Breyer, thank you for your service. Thank you lot, thank you, cheers. I hateful information technology. Become upward. Stand — let me see you. Thank y'all.

And we all know — no matter what your ideology, nosotros all know 1 of the most serious constitutional responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the United States Supreme Courtroom.

As I did four days ago, I've nominated a Circuit Courtroom of Appeals — Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of our nation's top legal minds who will continue in but Brey- — Justice Breyer's legacy of excellence. A quondam top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender from a family of public-schoolhouse educators and constabulary officers — she'southward a consensus builder.

Since she's been nominated, she's received a broad range of support, including the Fraternal Order of Law and quondam judges appointed past Democrats and Republicans.

Guess Ketanji Brown Jackson

Since she'south been nominated, she'southward received a broad range of support, including the Fraternal Lodge of Law and former judges appointed past Democrats and Republicans.

Folks, if we are to advance liberty and justice, nosotros need to secure our edge and fix the immigration system.

And as you lot might guess, I think we tin can exercise both. At our border, nosotros've installed new technology, like cutting-edge scanners, to better detect drug smuggling.

We've set up articulation patrols with United mexican states and Republic of guatemala to catch more homo traffickers.

We're putting in identify defended immigration judges in significant larger number so families fleeing persecution and violence can take their cases — cases heard faster — and those who aren't legitimately here can be sent dorsum.

We're screening — we're securing commitments and supporting partners in South and Central America to host more refugees and secure their own borders.

We tin practise all this while keeping lit the torch of liberty that has led the generation of immigrants to this land — my forebearers and many of yours.

Provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers — those with temporary status, farmworkers, essential workers. To revise our laws then businesses have workers they need and families don't look decades to reunite.

Information technology's non only the right matter to practice, information technology's economically smart thing to do. That's why the immigration reform is supported past anybody from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Let'southward become it washed in one case and for all.

Folks, advancing freedom and justice besides requires protecting the rights of women. The ramble right affirmed by Roe 5. Wade, continuing precedent for half a century, is under attack equally never before.

If you want to go forrad non backwards, nosotros must protect admission to healthcare; preserve a adult female'south right to cull — and keep to advance maternal healthcare for all Americans.

Roe v. Wade

And folks, for our LGBTQ+ Americans, let's finally get the bipartisan Equality Act to my desk. The onslaught of state laws targeting transgender Americans and their families — it'due south simply incorrect.

Every bit I said final year, specially to our younger transgender Americans, I'll always have your back as your President so yous tin can exist yourself and reach your God-given potential.

Bipartisan Equality Deed

Folks every bit I've just demonstrated, while it oft appears we exercise not agree and that — we — we practice concord on a lot more than things than nosotros admit.

I signed 80 bipartisan bills into law last year, from preventing regime shutdowns, to protecting Asian Americans from nonetheless-too-common hate crimes, to reforming military justice. And we'll soon be strengthening the Violence Against Women Human action that I starting time wrote three decades ago.

And it's important — it's important for united states of america to show — to testify the nation that we can come together and do big things.

And then tonight, I'grand offering a "Unity Calendar for the Nation": iv big things we can do together, in my view.

Unity Agenda

President Biden's Unity Agenda

Starting time, beat the opioid epidemic. At that place's so much we tin can practise: increase funding for prevention, handling, harm reduction, and recovery; get rid of outdated rules and stop doctors and — that stop doctors from prescribing treatments; end the menses of illicit drugs past working with state and local law enforcement to go later on the traffickers.

And if you're suffering from habit, you know — yous should know you're not solitary. I believe in recovery, and I celebrate the 23 1000000 — 23 million Americans in recovery.

Second, permit'south take on mental health — especially amongst our children, whose lives and instruction have been turned upside down.

The American Rescue Program gave schools coin to hire teachers and help students make up for lost learning. I urge every parent to make sure your school — your school does just that. They have the money.

We can all play a function. Sign upwardly to exist a tutor or a mentor.

Children were besides struggling before the pandemic: bullying, violence, trauma, and the harms of social media.

As Frances Haugen, who is here tonight with us, has shown, we must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they're conducting on our children for profit. Folks — thank you. Give thanks you for the courage yous showed.

Information technology'due south time to strengthen privacy protections; ban targeted advertising to children; demand tech companies end collecting personal information on our children.

Social Media Platforms

Hold Social Media Platforms Accountable

And let's get all Americans the mental health services they need — more than people tin turn for help and full parity between physical and mental healthcare if nosotros treat it that way in our insurance.

Look, the third piece of that calendar is support our veterans. Veterans are the courage and the spine of this land. They're the all-time of united states.

I've e'er believed that nosotros have a sacred obligation to equip those we send to war and intendance for those and their family when they come domicile.

My assistants is providing assistance and job training and housing, and at present helping lower-income veterans get VA care debt free.

And our troops in Iraq have faced — and Afghanistan — accept faced many dangers. One existence stationed at bases, breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits. Many of you lot have been there. I've been in and out of Republic of iraq and Afghanistan over forty times. These burn pits that incinerate waste — the wastes of state of war, medical and hazardous textile, jet fuel, so much more.

And they come domicile — many of the world's fittest and best trained warriors in the globe — never the aforementioned: headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped bury. I know.

Ane of those — one of those soldiers was my son, Major Fellow Biden. I don't know for sure if the burn pit that he lived near — that his hooch was nearly in Iraq and, before than that, in Kosovo is the cause of his brain cancer and the affliction of and then many other troops. Simply I'm committed to find out everything we tin can.

Committed to war machine families like Danielle Robinson from Ohio, the widow of Sergeant Get-go Grade Heath Robinson. He was built-in a soldier. Army National Guard. Combat medic in Kosovo and Republic of iraq. Stationed near Baghdad, but yards from burn pits the size of football fields.

Danielle is here with united states of america tonight. They loved going to Ohio State football games. And he loved edifice Legos with their daughter. But cancer from prolonged exposure to burn down pits ravaged Heath's lungs and body.

Danielle says Heath was a fighter to the very end. He didn't know how to stop fighting, and neither did she.

Through her pain, she found purpose to need that we practise ameliorate. This night, Danielle, we are going to do better.

The VA — the VA is pioneering new ways of linking toxic exposures to affliction, already helping more than veterans get benefits. And this night, I'1000 announcing we're expanding eligibility to veterans suffering from nine respiratory cancers.

Veterans

I'm also calling on Congress to pass a law to make sure veterans devastated by toxic exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan finally get the benefits and the comprehensive healthcare they deserve.

And fourth and final, let'southward stop cancer as we know information technology. This is personal. This is personal to me and to Jill and to Kamala so many of you. So many of yous have lost someone y'all dearest — husband, married woman, son, daughter, mom, dad.

Cancer is the number-two crusade of death in America, second only to heart affliction.

Concluding month, I announced the programme to supercharge the Cancer Moonshot that President Obama asked me to pb half dozen years ago.

Cancer Moonshot

Our goal is to cut cancer death rates by at to the lowest degree 50 percent over the adjacent 25 years. And I think we can practice ameliorate than that: turn cancers from expiry sentences into treatable diseases, more support for patients and families.

To get there, I call on Congress to fund what I chosen ARPA-H: Advanced — Advanced Research Projects Agency for Wellness. Patterned after DARPA in the Defence force Department, projects that led — in DARPA — to the Internet, GPS, and so much more than that make our forces more safer and be able to wage war more — with more clarity.

ARPA-H will take a singular purpose to drive breakthroughs in cancer, Alzheimer'southward, and diabetes, and more.

A Unity Calendar for the nation. Nosotros can practice these things. It's within our power. And I don't run into a partisan edge to any ane of those four things.

My fellow Americans — this night we've gathered in a sacred space: the citadel of commonwealth. In this Capitol, generation later generation of Americans accept debated cracking questions amid great strife and have washed great things.

We have fought for freedom, expanded liberty, defeated totalitarianism and terror. We built the strongest, freest, and most prosperous nation the world has always known.

Now is the hour: our moment of responsibleness, our exam of resolve and censor of history itself. It is in this moment that our graphic symbol of this generation is formed, our purpose is found, our futurity is forged.

Well, I know this nation. Nosotros'll encounter the exam, protect freedom and liberty, expand fairness and opportunity. And we will save democracy.

Every bit hard as those times have been, I'm more than optimistic well-nigh America today than I've been my whole life because I come across the future that's within our grasp, because I know at that place is but zero beyond our camas- — our capacity.

Nosotros're the only nation on Earth that has always turned every crunch we've faced into an opportunity, the merely nation that can be divers by a single word: possibilities.

And so, on this night, on our 245th twelvemonth as a nation, I've come to report on the state of the nation — the country of the union. And my report is this: The Country of the Spousal relationship is potent because you, the American people, are stiff.

Nosotros are stronger today — nosotros are stronger today than we were a yr ago. And nosotros'll be stronger a year from now than we are today.

The State of the Union

This is our moment to meet and overcome the challenges of our time. And nosotros will, as one people, one America — the United States of America.

God bless you all. And may God protect our troops. Thank you. Become become 'em.

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Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2022/

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