>> america's back to work. >> reporter: a lukewarm jobs report shows the pandemic is still the president's biggest challenge and an ongoing drag on the economy as his first year new year's an end. >> we're going to be able to control this. >> reporter: still biden promising the new normal won't be worse than the old one. >> covid as we're dealing with it now is not here to stay. >> reporter: those comments after cdc director rochelle walensky said this to savannah guthrie. >> we are definitely looking at a time ahead of us where covid, sars-cov-2 will be an endemic virus. >> reporter: biden may lose a key tool in his arsenal, the supreme court poised to block his testing mandate for large employers after arguments on friday. >> why doesn't congress have a say in this, and why doesn't this be the primary responsibility of the states? >> reporter: the white house still playing catchup on the covid testing shortages inking the first contracts for at home tests as part of the biden's