Any country in the world with among the highest percentage of population fully vaccinated.

That's progress, we promised.

It's also true that while cova, 19 vaccinations, air up, covert cases and hospitalizations air coming down.

But I need to be honest with you.

Cases and hospitalizations could go back up with new variants as they emerge.

So I wanna make something really very clear.

This is not a time to relax.

We must keep washing our hands, stay socially distance and for God's sake, for God's sake, where a mask Some of our progress in this fight is because so many Americans are stepping up and doing those things on the worst thing we could do.

Now let our guard.

Now I hope Congress passes theme merican rescue plan, which I've been pushing, which, which provides funds for everything we need to do to beat this pandemic and get the economy going again.

The critics say the plan is too big that it cost too much.

But let me ask a rhetorical question.

What would you have me cut?

What would you have me cut out on vaccines alone.

If we don't invest 20 $million billion to vaccinate the nation, does that make sense?

Or 160 billion in total towards the pandemic for testing to protective gear to vaccine production and distribution?

I'm ready to hear any ideas on what will make the American rescue plan better, stronger and effective.

But we'll have to answer who will get helped and who will get hurt on a close with this?

The question I asked, I'm asked most often is When will things get back to normal?

My answer is always honest and straightforward.

I can't give you a date.

I can only promise it will work as hard as we can to make that day come as soon as possible.

While things were improving, we're going from a mess we inherited to moving in the right direction at a significant speed.

This is not a victory lap.

This is everything is not fixed.

We have a long way to go.