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Tonigh Again So I Can Stay Home and Have at It Again

President Biden'southward State of the Spousal relationship Address

Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, and our First Lady and Second Gentleman, members of Congress and the Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court, my fellow Americans: Last year, COVID-19 kept u.s.a. apart. This year, we're finally together again.

Tonight — tonight we meet as Democrats, Republicans, and independents, but, most importantly, as Americans with a duty to one some other, to America, to the American people, and to the Constitution, and an unwavering resolve that freedom will e'er triumph over tyranny.

Six — give thanks you. 6 days ago, Russian federation'south Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free globe, thinking he could make information technology bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. He thought he could whorl into Ukraine and the globe would roll over. Instead, he met with a wall of strength he never predictable or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people.

Ukraine

From President Zelenskyy to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their backbone, their determination literally inspires the world. Groups of citizens blocking tanks with their bodies. Everyone from students to retirees, to teachers turned soldiers defending their homeland.

And in this struggle — President Zelenskyy said in his speech to the European Parliament, "Light volition win over darkness."

The Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States is here this evening sitting with the First Lady. Let each of usa, if yous're able to stand, stand and ship an unmistakable indicate to the world and Ukraine. Thank you. Thanks, give thanks you, thank you.

She's bright, she'south potent, and she's resolved.

Yes. We, the United states, stand with the Ukrainian people.

Throughout our history, we've learned this lesson: When dictators do not pay a cost for their aggression, they cause more chaos; they keep moving; and the costs, the threats to the America — and America, to the world keeps rising.

That'due south why the NATO Brotherhood was created: to secure peace and stability in Europe after Earth War Two.

The Usa is a fellow member, along with 29 other nations. Information technology matters. American diplomacy matters. American resolve matters.

Putin'southward latest assail on Ukraine was premeditated and totally unprovoked. He rejected repeated efforts at diplomacy.

He thought the Westward and NATO wouldn't respond. He thought he could divide us at habitation, in this chamber, in this nation. He thought he could separate us in Europe likewise.

Only Putin was wrong. We are ready. Nosotros are united. And that's what we did: Nosotros stayed united.

Nosotros prepared extensively and carefully. Nosotros spent months building coalitions of other liberty-loving nations in Europe and the Americas to — from America to the Asian and African continents to confront Putin.

Similar many of you lot, I spent endless hours unifying our European Allies.

We shared with the world, in advance, what we knew Putin was planning and precisely how he would try to falsely and justify his aggression.

We countered Russia'south lies with the truth. And now — now that he's acted, the free world is holding him accountable, along with 27 members of the European Marriage — including French republic, Frg, Italian republic — as well equally countries like the U.k., Canada, Japan, Korea, Commonwealth of australia, New Zealand, and many others. Even Switzerland are inflicting pain on Russia and supporting the people of Ukraine.

Putin is now isolated from the world more than he has ever been.

Together. Together. Together, along with our Allies, we are right now enforcing powerful economic sanctions. We're cutting off Russia'due south largest banks from the international financial system; preventing Russia'southward Central Bank from defending the Russian ruble, making Putin'southward $630 billion war fund worthless. We're choking Russia'southward access, we're choking Russia's access to engineering science that will sap its economic strength and weaken its military for years to come.

This evening, I say to the Russian oligarchs and the corrupt leaders who've bilked billions of dollars off this trigger-happy regime: No more.

The The states — I hateful it. The United states Department of Justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go subsequently the crimes of the Russian oligarchs.

We're joining with European Allies to find and seize their yachts, their luxury apartments, their individual jets. We're coming for your ill-begotten gains.

Russian Oligarchs

And, tonight, I'm announcing that we will join our Allies in endmost off American air space to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy.

He has no idea what's coming.

The ruble has already lost 30 per centum of its value, the Russian stock market has lost xl percent of its value, and trading remains suspended.

The Russian economy is reeling, and Putin alone is the one to blame.

Together with our Allies, we're providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for liberty: military help, economic assistance, humanitarian assistance. We're giving more than than a billion dollars in straight help to Ukraine. And we'll continue to aid the Ukrainian people as they defend their country and help ease their suffering.

Aid to Ukraine

Merely let me be clear: Our forces are non engaged and will non engage in the disharmonize with Russian forces in Ukraine. Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine simply to defend our NATO Allies in the consequence that Putin decides to keep moving west.

For that purpose, we have mobilized American ground forces, air squadrons, ship deployments to protect NATO countries, including Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

And every bit I've fabricated crystal clear, the United States and our Allies will defend every inch of territory that is NATO territory with the full force of our collective power — every single inch.

And we're articulate-eyed. The Ukrainians are fighting dorsum with pure courage. But the next few days, weeks, and months volition be hard on them.

Putin has unleashed violence and chaos. But while he may brand gains on the battleground, he volition pay a standing high price over the long run.

And a pound of Ukrainian people — the proud, proud people — pound for pound, ready to fight with every inch of (inaudible) they have. They've known xxx years of independence — have repeatedly shown that they will not tolerate anyone who tries to accept their country backwards.

To all Americans, I'll be honest with you, as I've always promised I would be. A Russian dictator infa- — invading a foreign country has costs effectually the earth. And I'thou taking robust action to make certain the pain of our sanctions is targeted at the Russian economic system and that we apply every tool at our disposal to protect American businesses and consumers.

Tonight, I can announce the The states has worked with xxx other countries to release 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world. America will atomic number 82 that attempt, releasing xxx million barrels of our ain Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And we stand up fix to do more if necessary, united with our Allies.

These steps volition assistance blunt gas prices here at home. Merely I know news nigh what'south happening can seem alarming to all Americans. Just I desire you to know: We're going to exist okay. Nosotros're going to be okay.

When the history of this era is written, Putin's war on Ukraine will accept left Russia weaker and the balance of the globe stronger.

Putin'southward War

While it shouldn't and while information technology shouldn't accept taken something so terrible for people effectually the world to run into what's at stake, now everyone sees it clearly.

Nosotros see the unity among leaders of nations, a more unified Europe, a more than unified West.

We see unity amongst the people who are gathering in cities in big crowds around the globe, even in Russia, to demonstrate their support for the people of Ukraine.

In the battle betwixt democracy and autocracies, democracies are rising to the moment and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security.

This is the real examination, and it'south going to accept fourth dimension. So, let us continue to draw inspiration from the atomic number 26 volition of the Ukrainian people.

To our beau Ukrainian Americans who forged a deep bond that connects our ii nations: Nosotros stand with you. We stand with you.

Putin may circumvolve Kyiv with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of Ukrainian people. He'll never — he'll never extinguish their beloved of liberty. And he volition never, never weaken the resolve of the free world.

We meet tonight in an America that has lived through two of the hardest years this nation has e'er faced. The pandemic has been punishing. And so many families are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to go along up with the ascension cost of food, gas, housing, and so much more.

I empathize, similar many of you did. My dad had to leave his home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to find work. So, like many of you, I grew upwards in a family unit when the price of food went up, it was felt throughout the family; it had an impact.

That'south why one of the commencement things I did as President was fight to laissez passer the American Rescue Programme, because people were hurting. Nosotros needed to human action and we did.

American Rescue Plan

American Rescue Plan

Few pieces of legislation take done more at a critical moment in our history to lift us out of a crunch. Information technology fueled our efforts to vaccinate the nation and combat COVID-19. It delivered immediate economic relief to tens of millions of Americans. It helped put nutrient on the table. Remember those long lines of cars waiting for hours just to get a box of food put in their trunk? It cut the cost of healthcare insurance. And equally my dad used to say, it gave the people "only a picayune fleck of breathing room."

And unlike the $2 trillion tax cutting passed in the previous administration that benefitted the top i percent of Americans, the American Rescue Plan helped working people and left no ane behind. And, folks — and it worked. Information technology worked.

It worked and created jobs — lots of jobs. In fact, our economy created over 6.5 million new jobs just final year, more jobs in one yr than ever before in the history of the The states of America.

Economic Progress Study

Economic Progress Report

The economy grew at a rate of v.7 last yr — the strongest growth rate in xl years and the offset step in bringing fundamental change to our economic system that hasn't worked for working people in this nation for too long.

For the past xl years, we were told that taxation breaks for those at the top and benefits would trickle downwards and everyone would — would benefit.

Merely that trickle-down theory led to a weaker economic growth, lower wages, bigger deficits, and a widening gap betwixt the acme and anybody else in the — in well-nigh a century.

Look, Vice President Harris and I ran for office — and I realize we have fundamental disagreements on this — but ran for role with a new economic vision for America: invest in America; educate Americans; abound the workforce; build the economic system from the bottom upward and the middle out, not from the meridian down. Because we know when the middle class grows — when the eye class grows, the poor get way up and the wealthy do very well.

America used to accept the best roads, bridges, and airports on Earth. And now our infrastructure is ranked 13th in the world. Nosotros won't be able to compete for the jobs of the 21st century if nosotros don't ready it.

That's why it was so important to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Police force. And I thank my Republican friends who joined to invest and rebuild America — the unmarried biggest investment in history.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Police force

It was a bipartisan effort, and I desire to thank the members of both parties who worked to brand information technology happen. We're done talking well-nigh infrastructure weeks. We're at present talking about an infrastructure decade.

And look, information technology's going to — it's going to transform America to put us on a path to win the economical competition of the 21st century that nosotros face with the remainder of the world, especially Red china.

I've told Eleven Jinping: It'southward never been a good bet to bet against the American people.

We'll create good jobs for millions of Americans — modernizing roads, airports, ports, waterways — all beyond America. And nosotros'll exercise it to withstand the devastating furnishings of climate crisis and promote ecology justice.

We'll build a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations; brainstorm to replace the poisonous lead pipes, so every child, every American has clean water to drink at home and at school.

Nosotros're going to provide — provide affordable high-speed Cyberspace for every American — rural, suburban, urban, and Tribal communities. Iv thousand projects have already been announced. Many of you accept appear them in your districts.

And tonight, I'm announcing that, this year, nosotros volition start fixing over 65,000 miles of highway and i,500 bridges in disrepair.

Highways

Repairs Begin on 65k Highways

And, folks, when we use taxpayers' dollars to rebuild America, we're going to practice it by ownership American. Buy American products. Back up American jobs.

The federal government spends about $600 billion a year to go along this land prophylactic and secure. There's been a law on the books for almost a century to make sure taxpayers' dollars support American jobs and businesses. Every assistants — Democrat and Republican — says they'll do information technology, but we're actually doing it.

We'll buy America to make certain every — everything from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the steel on highway guardrails is made in America from showtime to stop. All of information technology. All of information technology.

Only, folks, to compete for the jobs of the time to come, we also need to level the playing field with Communist china and other competitors. That'southward why it's so of import to pass the bipartisan Innovation Act sitting in Congress that volition make record investments in emerging technologies and American manufacturing.

Bipartisan Innovation Act

We used to invest almost 2 per centum of our Gross domestic product in research and evolution. Nosotros don't now. Tin't — Prc is.

Let me requite you lot one example why it'southward and then important to laissez passer.

If you travel 20 miles due east of Columbus, Ohio, you lot'll find a chiliad empty acres of land. Information technology won't look like much. But if you cease and wait closely, y'all'll see a "field of dreams" — the ground on which America'southward future will exist built.

That's where Intel, the American company that helped build Silicon Valley, is going to build a $20 billion semiconductor "mega site." Up to eight land-of-the-art factories in one identify. Ten thousand new jobs. And in those factories, the average job — most $135 — $135,000 a year.

Some of the most sophisticated manufacturing in the world to brand computer fries the size of a fingertip that power the globe and everyday lives, from smartphones, technology that — the Net — engineering that'due south yet to be invented.

But that's merely the beginning.

Intel's CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who is here this night — and I don't know where Pat is. Pat? There y'all become, Pat. Stand up up. Pat came to see me, and he told me they're ready to increase their investment from $20 billion to $100 billion.

That would be the biggest investment in manufacturing in American history. And all they're waiting for is for you lot to pass this nib.

And so, let's not wait whatsoever longer. Send it to my desk, I'll sign it, and we will really take off in a big way.

And, folks, Intel is not alone. In that location'south something happening in America. Just look around, and you'll see an astonishing story — the rebirth of pride that comes from stamping products "Fabricated in America," the revitalization of American manufacturing.

Companies are choosing to build new factories here when just a few years ago, they would take gone overseas. That'south what is happening.

Ford is investing $11 billion in electric vehicles, creating 11,000 jobs across the country.

GM is making the largest investment in its history — $vii billion to build electrical vehicles, creating 4,000 jobs in Michigan.

All told, 369,000 new manufacturing jobs were created in America terminal yr alone.

Folks, powered past people I've met — like JoJo Burgess from generations of union steelworkers in Pittsburgh, who'due south here with u.s. this evening. Where are you, JoJo? There you get. Thanks, buddy.

As Ohio — as Ohio Sherrod Brown says, "It'southward time to bury the label 'Rust Belt.'" It's fourth dimension to run into the — the — what used to be called the Rust Belt get the — the home of a pregnant resurgence of manufacturing.

And with all the brilliant spots in our economic system — record job growth, higher wages — too many families are struggling to keep up with their bills.

Inflation is robbing them of gains they thought otherwise they would be able to feel.

I get it. That's why my tiptop priority is getting prices under control.

Aggrandizement

I get information technology. That's why my elevation priority is getting prices under control.

Look, our economy roared back faster than almost anyone predicted, but the pandemic meant that businesses had a hard fourth dimension hiring enough people considering of the pandemic to keep up production in their factories. So, you didn't have people making those beams that went into buildings because they were out — the factory was closed.

The pandemic too disrupted the global supply concatenation. Factories close. When that happens, information technology takes longer to make appurtenances and get them to the warehouses, to the stores, and get — prices go up.

Look at cars terminal twelvemonth. One third of all the aggrandizement was because of car sales. There weren't enough semiconductors to make all the cars that people wanted to purchase.

And judge what? Prices of automobiles went way up, peculiarly used vehicles every bit well.

And and then, we have a selection.

One way to fight inflation is to drive down wages and make Americans poorer.

I recollect I accept a better idea to fight inflation: Lower your costs, not your wages.

And, folks, that means brand more cars and semiconductors in America, more infrastructure and innovation in America, more goods moving faster and cheaper in America, more than jobs where you can earn a practiced living in America.

Instead of relying on foreign supply chains, let's brand information technology in America.

Look, economists call this increasing the productive capacity of our economy.

I call it building a better America.

Edifice a Improve America

My plan to fight aggrandizement will lower your costs and lower the deficit. Seventeen Nobel laureates in economics said my plan will ease long-term inflationary pressures. Summit business concern leaders and, I believe, nearly Americans support the programme.

And here's the program.

First, cut the price of prescription drugs. We pay more than for the same drug produced past the same company in America than any other state in the earth.

Just look at insulin. I in ten Americans has diabetes. In Virginia, I met a 13-year-old male child — the handsome young man standing up there, Joshua Davis. He and his dad both have Type 1 diabetes, which means they demand insulin every single day.

Insulin costs about $10 a vial to make. That's what it costs the — the pharmaceutical company. But drug companies charge families like Joshua and his dad up to 30 times that corporeality.

I spoke with Joshua'south mom. Imagine what information technology'south like to look at your child who needs insulin to stay healthy and have no idea how in God's proper noun you're going to be able to pay for it — what it does to your family, merely what it does to your dignity, your power to look your child in the eye, to be the parent yous expect yourself to be. I really hateful it. Retrieve about that. That'due south what I recollect near.

Y'all know, yesterday — Joshua is here this evening, but yesterday was his birthday. Happy birthday, buddy, past the way.

For Joshua and 200,000 other young people with Type 1 diabetes, permit's cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month and so everyone can afford it. And drug companies will do very, very well — their profit margin.

Cost of Insulin

And while we're at it — I know we have great disagreements on this floor with this — let's let Medicare negotiate the price of prescription drugs. They already ready the price for VA drugs.

Wait, the American Rescue Plan is helping millions of families on Affordable Care Human activity plans to save them $2,400 a year on their wellness premiums. Let's close the coverage gap and make those savings permanent.

And 2nd, let's cut energy costs for families an average of $500 a year by combatting climate change.

Let's provide an investment and tax credit to weatherize your dwelling house and your business organization to exist free energy efficient and get a tax credit for information technology; double America'southward clean free energy product in solar, current of air, and and so much more; lower the price of electric vehicles, saving another $fourscore a calendar month that you've not going to have to pay at the pump.

Free energy Efficiency

Folks — third — the third thing we tin can exercise to change the standard of living for hardworking folks is cut the cost of childcare. Cut the toll of childcare.

Folks, if y'all live in a major city in America, you can pay up to $14,000 a year for childcare per child.

I was a single dad for v years, raising two kids. I had a lot of help, though. I had a mom, a dad, a brother, and sis that actually helped.

Only middle-course and working folks shouldn't have to pay more than 7 percent of their income to care for their immature children.

My plan would cut the price of childcare in one-half for most families and help parents, including millions of women who left the workforce during the pandemic because they couldn't afford childcare to be able to get dorsum to piece of work, generating economic growth.

Price of Kid Care

Only my plan doesn't stop there. It also includes home and long-term care, more affordable housing, pre-K for iii- and 4-year-olds. All of these will lower costs to families.

And nether my plan, nobody — let me say this again — nobody earning less than $400,000 a yr volition pay an boosted penny in new taxes. Not a single penny.

I may be wrong, but my judge is, if nosotros took a secret ballot in this floor, that we'd all agree that the present tax organization ain't off-white. We have to fix it.

I'm not looking to punish anybody, but let's make corporations and wealthy Americans start paying their fair share.

Await, last yr — like Chris Coons and Tom Carper and my distinguished congresswoman — we come from the land of corporate America. At that place are more corporations incorporated in Delaware than every other state in America combined. And I still won 36 years in a row. The indicate is: Even they empathise they should pay just a fair share.

Last year, 55 of the Fortune 500 companies earned $xl billion in profit and paid nada in federal taxes.

No, look, information technology's not off-white. That's why I proposed a 15 per centum minimum tax rate for corporations.

We've got — and that'due south why in the G7 and other meetings overseas we were able to put together — I was able to be somewhat helpful — 130 countries to concur on a global minimum tax charge per unit — so companies can't go out of paying their taxes at habitation by shipping jobs and factories overseas. Information technology'll heighten billions of dollars.

And that's why I've proposed endmost loopholes for the very wealthy who don't pay — who pay a lower tax rate than a instructor and a firefighter.

So that's my plan. Merely we have — we'll get into more detail afterwards.

I'm going to abound — we volition abound the economy, lower the costs to families.

And then, what are we waiting for? Let's get this done. We all know we've got to make changes.

Folks, and while you're at it, confirm my nominees for the Federal Reserve which plays a critical role in fighting inflation.

My plan will not only lower costs and requite families a off-white shot, information technology will lower the deficit.

The previous administration not simply ballooned the arrears with those tax cuts for the very wealthy and corporations, it undermined the watchdogs — the job of those to keep pandemic relief funds from being wasted. Think we had those debates about whether or not those watchdogs should be able to run into, every day, how much money was existence spent, where it — was it going to the correct place?

In my assistants, the watchdogs are back. And we're going afterwards the criminals who stole billions of relief coin meant for pocket-sized business concern and millions of Americans.

Pandemic Fraud

And this evening, I'm announcing that the Justice Section volition soon proper name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud.

And, look I call up nosotros all agree — thank you — past the cease of this year, the deficit volition be down to less than half what it was before I took office — the only President ever to cut the deficit by more than $1 trillion in a single year.

Lowering your costs also meant enervating more competition. I'chiliad a capitalist, only capitalism without contest is non commercialism. Commercialism without competition is exploitation. Information technology drives upward prices.

When corporations have to compete, their profits go up and your prices go upward — when they don't have to compete.

Small businesses and family farmers and ranchers — I need not tell some of my Republican friends from those states — estimate what? You got 4 basic meatpacking facilities. That's it. Y'all play with them or yous don't become to play at all. And you pay a hell of a lot more — a hell of a lot more than because there's only four.

See what'due south happening with sea carriers moving goods in and out of America. During the pandemic, about half a dozen or less strange-owned companies raised prices by as much as 1,000 percent and made record profits.

Tonight, I'm announcing a crackdown on those companies overcharging American businesses and consumers.

Folks and as Wall Street firms take over more nursing homes, quality in those homes has gone down and costs have gone up. That ends on my picket.

Medicare is going to gear up college standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones go the care they deserve and that they look, and they will look at that closely.

We're also going to cut costs to continue the economic system going potent and giving workers a off-white shot; provide more preparation and apprenticeships; rent them based on skills, non just their degrees.

Let's laissez passer the Paycheck Fairness Deed and paid get out raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour; and extend the Child Tax Credit so no one has to heighten a family in poverty.

Paycheck Fairness Human activity

Let's increase Pell Grants; increase our historic support for HBCUs; and invest in what Jill, our Beginning Lady, who teaches full-time, calls America'due south best-kept secret: community colleges.

Wait, allow'southward pass the PRO Act. When a majority of workers want to course a union, they shouldn't exist able to exist stopped.

When nosotros invest in our workers and we build an economy from the bottom upwardly and the middle out, together nosotros can do something we oasis't done in a long time: build a better America.

For more than than two years, COVID has impacted every decision in our lives and the life of this nation. And I know you're tired, frustrated, and wearied. That doesn't fifty-fifty count the shut to a million people who sit at a dining room table or a kitchen table and expect at an empty chair because they lost somebody.

Only I as well know this: Because of the progress we've fabricated, because of your resilience and the tools that we have been provided by this Congress, tonight I can say we're moving forward safely, back to a norm- — more than normal routines.

We've reached a new moment in the fight against COVID-19 where severe cases are down to a level not seen since July of last twelvemonth.

Merely a few days agone, the Middle for Disease Command and Prevention issued a new mask guidelines. Under the new guidelines, most Americans in nigh of the country tin now become mask free.

And based on projections — and based on projections, more of the land will reach a point across — that bespeak across the adjacent couple of weeks.

And thanks to the progress nosotros've made in the past twelvemonth, COVID-19 no longer demand control our lives. I know some are talking near "living with COVID-19." But tonight, I say that we never volition just take living with COVID-19; nosotros'll continue to gainsay the virus every bit we do other diseases.

And considering this virus mutates and spreads, we have to stay on guard. And here are four common sense steps as we move frontward safely, in my view:

COVID-nineteen

Commencement, stay protected with vaccines and treatments. We know how incredibly constructive vaccines are. If you're vaccinated and boosted, you accept the highest degree of protection, and nosotros'll never give up on vaccinating more than Americans.

Now, I know parents with kids under five are eager to see their vaccines authorized for their children. Scientists are working hard to get that done, and we'll be ready with enough of vaccines if and when they exercise.

We're already — nosotros are likewise ready with anti-viral treatments. If yous go COVID-19, the Pfizer pill reduces your chances of ending up in the hospital by ninety per centum.

I've ordered more pills than anyone in the earth has. Pfizer is working overtime to get us a meg pills this calendar month and more than double that next month.

And now we're launching the "Test to Treat" initiative and then people tin get tested at a pharmacy and, if they prove positive, receive the antiviral pills on the spot at no toll.

And folks if yous're immunocompromised or take another vulnerability, we have treatments and free high-quality masks.

Nosotros're leaving no one behind or ignoring anyone's needs every bit we move forward.

On testing, we've fabricated hundreds of millions of tests available, and you can order them for free to your doorstep.

And nosotros've already ordered gratuitous tests. If you already ordered free tests, tonight I'thou announcing you can lodge some other group of tests. COVID — go to COVIDTests.gov, starting adjacent week, and you tin get more tests.

Covid Tests

Order More Free Covid Tests On covidtests.gov

Second, nosotros must set for new variants.

Over the past — nosotros've gotten much ameliorate at detecting new variants. If necessary, we'll exist able to deploy new vaccines within 100 days instead of maybe months or years. And if Congress provides the funds we need, we'll have new stockpiles of tests, masks, pills ready if needed.

I tin't hope a new variant won't come, just I ca- — I can promise y'all we'll do everything within our power to be fix if it does.

Third, we tin end the shutdown of schools and businesses. Nosotros have the tools we need.

Information technology's fourth dimension for America to get back to piece of work and fill our great downtowns again with people. People working from home tin experience safe and begin to return to their offices.

We're doing that here in the federal government. The vast majority of federal workers will in one case over again work in person.

Our schools are open up. Let'southward continue information technology that way. Our kids need to be in school.

With 75 percent of adult Americans fully vaccinated and hospitalizations downwardly by 77 percent, most Americans can remove their masks and stay in the classroom and motion forward safely.

We achieved this because nosotros provided free vaccines, treatments, tests, and masks. Of class, standing this costs money, so it will non surprise y'all I'll be dorsum to see y'all all. And re- — I'm going to soon ship a asking to Congress.

The vast majority of Americans have used these tools and may want to once more — we may need them once again. So I expect Congress — and I hope you'll pass that quickly.

Quaternary, we'll continue vaccinating the world. We've sent 475 million vaccine doses to 112 countries — more than any nation on Earth. We won't stop, considering you tin can't build a wall loftier enough to keep out a —

A vaccine — the vaccine can terminate the spread of these diseases.

Yous know, we've lost and then much in COVID-19. Time with one some other. The worst of all, the much loss of life.

Let'south use this moment to reset. And so, terminate looking at COVID every bit a partisan dividing line. See it for what it is: a God-awful affliction.

Permit's stop sending — seeing each other as enemies and start seeing each other for who we are: swain Americans.

Covid-19 Reset

Wait we can't change how divided we've been. That was a long time in coming. Just nosotros can alter how to move forward on COVID-19 and other issues that we must face together.

I recently visited New York Urban center Law Section days after the funerals of Officer Wilbert Mora and his partner, Officer Jason Rivera.

They were responding to a 911 call when a human being shot and killed them with a stolen gun.

Officeholder Mora was 27 years old. Officer Rivera was 22 years one-time. Both Dominican Americans who grew up in the same streets that they afterwards chose to patrol as police officers.

I spoke with their families, and I told them that nosotros are forever in debt for their sacrifices and we'll carry on their mission to restore the trust and rubber in every customs it deserves.

Like some of you that have been around for a while — I've worked with you on these problems for a long time. I know what works: Investing in crime prevention and customs policing — cops who walk the shell, who know the neighborhood, and who can restore trust and safety.

Crime Prevention

Allow'due south not abandon our streets or choose between safety and equal justice. Let'south come up together and protect our communities, restore trust, and concur law enforcement accountable.

That's why the Justice Department has required body cameras, banned chokeholds, and restricted no-knock warrants for its officers.

That's why the American Rescue Plan that you all provided $350 billion that cities, states, and counties can use to hire more police, invest in more proven strategies like community violence break, trusted messengers breaking the cycle of violence and trauma and giving immature people some promise.

We should all agree the respond is not to defund the police.

Information technology's to fund the law. Fund them. Fund them. Fund them with the resources and training — resources and grooming they need to protect our communities.

I ask Democrats and Republicans alike to pass my budget and keep our neighborhoods prophylactic.

And nosotros'll do everything in my ability to crack down on gun trafficking of ghost guns that you can buy online, gather at habitation — no serial numbers, tin can't be traced.

I inquire Congress to pass proven measures to reduce gun violence. Pass universal background checks. Why should anyone on the terrorist list be able to purchase a weapon. Why? Why?

And, folks, ban assault weapons with high-chapters magazines that hold upwardly to 100 rounds. Y'all retrieve the deer are wearing Kevlar vests?

Look, repeal the liability shield that makes gun manufacturers the only industry in America that can't be sued — the only one. Imagine had we done that with the tobacco manufactures.

These laws don't infringe on the Second Amendment; they relieve lives.

Gun Violence

The most key correct in America is the right to vote and have it counted. And look, information technology'southward under assault.

In state after country, new laws have been passed not just to suppress the vote — we've been there before — only to subvert the entire election. We tin can't let this happen.

This evening, I call on the Senate to pass — pass the Freedom to Vote Act. Pass the John Lewis Human activity — Voting Rights Human action. And while you're at it, laissez passer the Disclose Deed so Americans know who is funding our elections.

Look, tonight, I'd — I'd like to honor someone who has defended his life to serve this country: Justice Breyer — an Army veteran, Constitutional scholar, retiring Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Justice Breyer, thank you for your service. Give thanks you lot, give thanks you, cheers. I hateful it. Become up. Stand — let me run into yous. Cheers.

And we all know — no thing what your ideology, nosotros all know one of the most serious constitutional responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the United States Supreme Courtroom.

Equally I did iv days ago, I've nominated a Excursion Court of Appeals — Ketanji Chocolate-brown Jackson. I of our nation'due south top legal minds who will continue in simply Brey- — Justice Breyer's legacy of excellence. A former pinnacle litigator in private practise, a former federal public defender from a family of public-school educators and constabulary officers — she'due south a consensus architect.

Since she's been nominated, she'due south received a broad range of back up, including the Fraternal Guild of Police and former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.

Gauge Ketanji Dark-brown Jackson

Since she's been nominated, she's received a broad range of back up, including the Fraternal Guild of Constabulary and former judges appointed past Democrats and Republicans.

Folks, if we are to advance liberty and justice, nosotros need to secure our border and fix the immigration system.

And as you might guess, I think we can do both. At our border, we've installed new technology, like cut-border scanners, to improve detect drug smuggling.

We've set joint patrols with United mexican states and Guatemala to catch more human traffickers.

We're putting in place defended clearing judges in significant larger number and then families fleeing persecution and violence can have their cases — cases heard faster — and those who aren't legitimately here can exist sent back.

Nosotros're screening — nosotros're securing commitments and supporting partners in South and Primal America to host more than refugees and secure their own borders.

We can do all this while keeping lit the torch of liberty that has led the generation of immigrants to this land — my forebearers and many of yours.

Provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers — those with temporary status, farmworkers, essential workers. To revise our laws so businesses have workers they need and families don't expect decades to reunite.

Information technology's not just the right thing to do, it's economically smart matter to practise. That's why the clearing reform is supported by everyone from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.S. Bedchamber of Commerce. Allow's get information technology done in one case and for all.

Folks, advancing liberty and justice too requires protecting the rights of women. The constitutional right affirmed by Roe v. Wade, continuing precedent for one-half a century, is under attack as never before.

If you want to go forrard not backwards, we must protect access to healthcare; preserve a woman's right to cull — and keep to advance maternal healthcare for all Americans.

Roe v. Wade

And folks, for our LGBTQ+ Americans, let's finally get the bipartisan Equality Act to my desk. The onslaught of country laws targeting transgender Americans and their families — it'southward simply wrong.

Equally I said last year, specially to our younger transgender Americans, I'll e'er have your dorsum equally your President so you can be yourself and reach your God-given potential.

Bipartisan Equality Act

Folks as I've merely demonstrated, while information technology often appears we do not concur and that — we — we exercise concur on a lot more things than we acknowledge.

I signed 80 bipartisan bills into law last twelvemonth, from preventing government shutdowns, to protecting Asian Americans from still-besides-common hate crimes, to reforming armed forces justice. And nosotros'll shortly be strengthening the Violence Confronting Women Act that I first wrote three decades ago.

And it'due south important — information technology'southward important for us to evidence — to show the nation that nosotros can come up together and do big things.

So tonight, I'm offer a "Unity Calendar for the Nation": four big things we tin do together, in my view.

Unity Agenda

President Biden's Unity Agenda

First, beat the opioid epidemic. There's so much nosotros can exercise: increase funding for prevention, handling, impairment reduction, and recovery; get rid of outdated rules and end doctors and — that stop doctors from prescribing treatments; stop the menses of illicit drugs by working with land and local police force enforcement to go after the traffickers.

And if you lot're suffering from habit, you know — you should know you're not alone. I believe in recovery, and I gloat the 23 million — 23 1000000 Americans in recovery.

Second, let's have on mental wellness — particularly among our children, whose lives and education have been turned upside downwardly.

The American Rescue Plan gave schools money to hire teachers and aid students make up for lost learning. I urge every parent to make sure your school — your school does just that. They take the coin.

We tin can all play a part. Sign up to be a tutor or a mentor.

Children were also struggling before the pandemic: bullying, violence, trauma, and the harms of social media.

As Frances Haugen, who is here tonight with usa, has shown, we must concord social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they're conducting on our children for profit. Folks — thanks. Thank yous for the courage you lot showed.

It's time to strengthen privacy protections; ban targeted advertising to children; demand tech companies end collecting personal data on our children.

Social Media Platforms

Hold Social Media Platforms Accountable

And let'due south get all Americans the mental wellness services they need — more people can turn for help and full parity betwixt physical and mental healthcare if we treat it that mode in our insurance.

Await, the third slice of that agenda is support our veterans. Veterans are the courage and the spine of this land. They're the all-time of the states.

I've always believed that we have a sacred obligation to equip those we send to war and intendance for those and their family when they come home.

My assistants is providing aid and task preparation and housing, and now helping lower-income veterans get VA care debt free.

And our troops in Iraq have faced — and Afghanistan — have faced many dangers. I existence stationed at bases, breathing in toxic smoke from fire pits. Many of you have been at that place. I've been in and out of Republic of iraq and Afghanistan over twoscore times. These burn down pits that incinerate waste material — the wastes of war, medical and chancy material, jet fuel, and so much more.

And they come up home — many of the world's fittest and best trained warriors in the world — never the aforementioned: headaches, numbness, dizziness, a cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin. I know.

1 of those — 1 of those soldiers was my son, Major Beau Biden. I don't know for sure if the burn pit that he lived well-nigh — that his hooch was near in Iraq and, earlier than that, in Kosovo is the crusade of his brain cancer and the disease of so many other troops. Just I'm committed to find out everything we can.

Committed to armed forces families like Danielle Robinson from Ohio, the widow of Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson. He was born a soldier. Ground forces National Baby-sit. Combat medic in Kosovo and Iraq. Stationed near Baghdad, only yards from burn pits the size of football fields.

Danielle is hither with united states of america tonight. They loved going to Ohio State football games. And he loved building Legos with their girl. Simply cancer from prolonged exposure to burn pits ravaged Heath's lungs and body.

Danielle says Heath was a fighter to the very stop. He didn't know how to stop fighting, and neither did she.

Through her pain, she found purpose to demand that we do ameliorate. Tonight, Danielle, nosotros are going to practise better.

The VA — the VA is pioneering new ways of linking toxic exposures to disease, already helping more veterans get benefits. And this evening, I'thousand announcing nosotros're expanding eligibility to veterans suffering from nine respiratory cancers.

Veterans

I'chiliad also calling on Congress to laissez passer a law to brand sure veterans devastated by toxic exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan finally get the benefits and the comprehensive healthcare they deserve.

And fourth and terminal, allow's finish cancer as we know it. This is personal. This is personal to me and to Jill and to Kamala and so many of you. So many of you have lost someone you lot love — married man, wife, son, daughter, mom, dad.

Cancer is the number-two crusade of decease in America, second merely to middle disease.

Terminal calendar month, I announced the programme to supercharge the Cancer Moonshot that President Obama asked me to lead half-dozen years ago.

Cancer Moonshot

Our goal is to cut cancer expiry rates by at least 50 percent over the adjacent 25 years. And I remember we tin do better than that: turn cancers from expiry sentences into treatable diseases, more support for patients and families.

To get there, I call on Congress to fund what I called ARPA-H: Advanced — Advanced Enquiry Projects Agency for Health. Patterned later on DARPA in the Defense Department, projects that led — in DARPA — to the Cyberspace, GPS, and and then much more than that make our forces more safer and be able to wage war more — with more clarity.

ARPA-H will have a singular purpose to bulldoze breakthroughs in cancer, Alzheimer'southward, and diabetes, and more.

A Unity Agenda for the nation. We can do these things. It's inside our power. And I don't see a partisan edge to whatever one of those four things.

My boyfriend Americans — this night we've gathered in a sacred space: the citadel of democracy. In this Capitol, generation after generation of Americans have debated bang-up questions amid nifty strife and have done cracking things.

We have fought for freedom, expanded liberty, defeated totalitarianism and terror. We built the strongest, freest, and nearly prosperous nation the world has ever known.

Now is the hour: our moment of responsibleness, our test of resolve and conscience of history itself. It is in this moment that our character of this generation is formed, our purpose is found, our future is forged.

Well, I know this nation. We'll encounter the test, protect freedom and liberty, expand fairness and opportunity. And we will relieve democracy.

Every bit difficult every bit those times accept been, I'm more than optimistic about America today than I've been my whole life considering I see the future that's within our grasp, because I know there is only nothing beyond our camas- — our capacity.

We're the only nation on Earth that has always turned every crisis nosotros've faced into an opportunity, the only nation that can exist divers by a unmarried give-and-take: possibilities.

So, on tonight, on our 245th year as a nation, I've come up to written report on the state of the nation — the state of the union. And my report is this: The State of the Union is strong because you, the American people, are strong.

We are stronger today — we are stronger today than we were a year ago. And we'll be stronger a year from now than nosotros are today.

The State of the Matrimony

This is our moment to run into and overcome the challenges of our fourth dimension. And we will, as one people, ane America — the U.s..

God bless you lot all. And may God protect our troops. Thanks. Go get 'em.

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Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2022/