Providing loans to small businesses that reopen and keep their employees on the job. Keeping people from being evicted from their homes. We’re also providing rental assistance - you all know this, but the American people, I want to make sure they understand. Nice cars, lined up for miles, waiting for a box of food to be put in their trunk. And not people just barely able to start those cars. One of the defining images, at least from my perspective, in this crisis has been cars lined up, cars lined up for miles. A grandmother in Virginia who told me she immediately took her granddaughter to the eye doctor, something she said she put off for months because she didn’t have the money. She said the relief check put food on the table and saved her and her son from eviction from their apartment. For many people, it’s making all the difference in the world.Ī single mom in Texas who wrote me, she said she couldn’t work. We’ve already sent more than 160 million checks out the door. We kept our commitment, Democrats and Republicans, of sending $1,400 rescue checks to 85 percent of American households. What else have we done in those first 100 days? But tonight, I can say, because of you, the American people, our progress these past 100 days against one of the worst pandemics in history has been one of the greatest logistical achievements, logistical achievements this country has ever seen. You know, there’s still - you all know it, you know it better than any group of Americans - there’s still more work to do to beat this virus. Grandparents, hugging their children and grandchildren, instead of pressing hands against the window to say goodbye. Parents seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces, for those who are able to go back to school because the teachers and the school bus drivers and the cafeteria workers have been vaccinated. ![]() She said she sat in her car when she got vaccinated and just cried, cried out of joy, and cried out of relief. She said she then got vaccinated at a large site, in her car. The mass vaccination center in Glendale, Ariz., I asked the nurse, I said, “What’s it like?” She looked at me, she said, “It’s like every shot is giving a dose of hope” was her phrase, a dose of hope.Ī dose of hope for an educator in Florida, who has a child suffering from an autoimmune disease, wrote to me, said she’s worried - that she was worried about bringing the virus home. You’re eligible now.Īnd more than half of all the adults in America have gotten at least one shot. Everyone over the age of 16, everyone, is now eligible to get vaccinated right now, right away. Today, 90 percent of Americans now live within five miles of a vaccination site. We’re setting up community vaccination sites, developing mobile units to get to hard-to-reach communities. We’ve gotten vaccinations to nearly 40,000 pharmacies and over 700 community health centers where the poorest of the poor can be reached. ![]() We’re marshaling with your help, everyone’s help, we’re marshaling every federal resource. After I promised we would get 100 million Covid-19 vaccine shots into people’s arms in 100 days, we will have provided over 220 million Covid shots in those hundred days, thanks to all the help of all of you. Together, we passed the American Rescue Plan, one of the most consequential rescue packages in American history. Thanks to the extraordinary leadership of Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Schumer and the overwhelming support of the American people - Democrats, Independents and Republicans - we did act. One hundred days ago, America’s house was on fire. We have shown each other and the world that there’s no quit in America. We’re working again, dreaming again, discovering again and leading the world again. After 100 days of rescue and renewal, America is ready for a takeoff, in my view. Choosing hope over fear, truth over lies and light over darkness. But in America, we never, ever, ever stay down. Turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity, setbacks to strength. Now, after just 100 days, I can report to the nation, America is on the move again. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. ![]() A hundred days since I took the oath of office, lifted my hand off our family Bible and inherited a nation - we all did - that was in crisis. I stand here tonight one day shy of the 100th day of my administration. About rebuilding the nation, revitalizing our democracy, and winning the future for America. Tonight, I come to talk about crisis and opportunity.
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