i want you to know i hear you. it's not enough to know that we're making progress. you need to see it and feel it in your own lives around the kitchen table and in your checkbooks, and that's why every day my team and i are working to deliver consistent determined focussed action to overcome the challenges we still face. the economic anxiety and covid concerns are only being compounded by the deep dysfunction in washington. which was on full display this week as congress scrambled to avoid a government shutdown. it pretty much is the normal state. amid intraparty squabbles on the right about the tactics pg used to try to diffuse the mandate. the daily -- americans are losing faith, losing faith in our future. losing faith in the democracy. the crisis of confidence is particularly notable among america's youth. look at this. according to new harvard youth poll this week a majority of americans ages 18 to 29 say u.s.