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  • US President Joe Biden took a victory lap on Friday, a day after signing the $1.9 trillion American rescue plan into law.

  • With economic stimulus payments hitting Americans bank accounts imminently, I promised the American people, and I guess it's becoming an overused phrase that help was on the way.

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  • But today, with the American rescue plan now signed into law, we delivered on that promise.

  • Biden's celebratory remarks from the Rose Garden at the White House came the same day the Centers for Disease Control said the US administered over 100 million doses of Covid 19 vaccines at the start of his presidency, Biden set a goal to get 100 million vaccine shots into the arms of American adults within his 1st 100 days in office, a goal surpassed in roughly half the time.

  • And more help may be on the way soon, with AstraZeneca looking to apply for emergency use authorization for its vaccine in the U.

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  • Later this month or early April.

  • There is light at the end of this dark tunnel in the past year, Biden announced on Wednesday that the U.

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  • Will buy 100 million additional Johnson and Johnson vaccine doses and pledged to share any remaining surplus with the rest of the world.

  • After all, American adults are vaccinated.

  • We're not going to be ultimately safe into the world is safe.

US President Joe Biden took a victory lap on Friday, a day after signing the $1.9 trillion American rescue plan into law.

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