Blocking the commonsense multihundred billion dollars measure that republicans have been ready to deliver for months. Now come first, all of my colleagues had a fine a fine thanksgiving well know that across the country we celebrated a thanksgiving, all of us, every american, unlike any in recent memory. Too many loved ones spent this holiday alone unable to join with loved ones out of concern for their safety. As painful as it is to refrain from seeing family and friends, these are tough choices that we sometimes have to make it and we need to maintain a result more than ever while the hope of a vaccine shimmers on the near horizon, were living through the worst stretch of the pandemic right now. Last friday for the first time over 200,000 new cases of government were reported in ina single day. The United States is averaging over 1 million new cases a week. Some 20 of of all patients now hospitalized in the United States have covid19. The worst andpa most unalterable part of this pan
We will get feedback on the time of day. Ok. I have several announcements for you today. To begin, i know many of you and the American People are interested from the news coming from Johnson Johnsons trial data. The president is encouraged about the data about a potential new vaccine. He knows this is just new data and now is the time for the fda to do its job to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. He continues to urge all americans to mask up and follow Public Health guidelines until it is their turn to get vaccinated. I know there might be a lot of questions about the trial data or Johnson Johnson. I will not get ahead of the experts, who you all get to hear from in the next hour in our Public Health briefing from the Covid Response team. They will discuss this and what this means then. At wednesdays briefing, i shared some of the engagement and outreach the white house is doing to move forward the American Rescue plan from the president , Vice President on down. That wo
You. He wants health and medical experts to be the guides. And the politics, follow the science. Hes guided as we all are by scientists and medical experts. We will follow the science. Many say that again. He does rely on the guidance of his health and medical experts. Jesse Turns Out Biden and the white house didnt mean any of that, what they really shouldve said is this. We will follow the science unless it hurts us politically. For example, the White House Press secretary is throwing the cdc under the bus for saying teachers can safely return to School Without being vaccinated, watch this. Vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for savory opening of schools. She spoke to this in her personal capacity, we are going to wait for the final guidance to come out. The white house said today that the cdc has yet to release official guidance while another expert, dr. Anthony fauci just said this. You cant have children going Back To School as we have in the past without necessarily ha
President elect biden this is one of the worst economic and job crisis in modern history, but it doesnt have to stay that way. If we act now, now, i mean now, we can begin to regain momentum and start to build back a better future. There are no times to lose. Millions of people have lost their Health Insurance or in danger of losing their Health Insurance. One in six renters is behind in rent. One in four Small Businesses cant keep their doors open. And there is a growing gap in black and latino unemployment and the gap remains much too large. Deeply troubling that last months unemployment was driven by people dropping out of the job market, not because they were being hired. They have lost hope of finding a job and taking fulltime care giving responsibilities as Child Centers remain closed and children learn remotely. Over the past three months, 2. 3 million more people are longterm unemployed. Meaning 23 weeks or more. By far, the largest increase on record. This is a dire jobs repor
Safe thasgiving, it was far from the traditionalgathering with family and friends. I hope you had a good thanksgiving. We know times are tough but i wanted to know help is on the way. Last week i announced the nominations of staff for a critical Foreign Policy positions. The first rate team thats going to keep us safe and secure and today i have the pleasure of announcing key nominatis appointed to the critical economic positions that will lead this nation. A first rate team thats going to get us through this ongoing onomic crisis and helps build an economy not just better than it was before. A team thats tested and expeenced that includes groundbrking americans that come from different backgrounds and share my core vision of econic relief here in the United States of america. To give them a fair shot and equal ance, theres nothing beyond the capacity of the American People. Lets not forget who built this country, workingclass and middleclass people built this country and unions built