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President Biden's State of the Union Accost

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

Tonight — tonight we see equally Democrats, Republicans, and independents, but, almost importantly, every bit Americans with a duty to one some other, to America, to the American people, and to the Constitution, and an unwavering resolve that liberty volition e'er triumph over tyranny.

Half dozen — thank you. Six days ago, Russia'due south Vladimir Putin sought to milkshake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could brand it curve to his menacing ways. But he desperately miscalculated. He thought he could curlicue into Ukraine and the world would roll over. Instead, he met with a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people.

Ukraine

From President Zelenskyy to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their backbone, their decision literally inspires the globe. 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 communication to the European Parliament, "Light will win over darkness."

The Ukrainian Administrator to the United States is here this night sitting with the First Lady. Let each of us, if you're able to stand, stand up and ship an unmistakable signal to the world and Ukraine. Cheers. Thank you, give thanks you lot, thank you.

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

Yep. We, the Usa of America, stand with the Ukrainian people.

Throughout our history, we've learned this lesson: When dictators do non pay a cost for their aggression, they cause more than chaos; they keep moving; and the costs, the threats to the America — and America, to the world keeps rising.

That's why the NATO Brotherhood was created: to secure peace and stability in Europe after World War Ii.

The United states of america is a member, along with 29 other nations. It matters. American diplomacy matters. American resolve matters.

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

He thought the W and NATO wouldn't answer. He idea he could divide us at home, in this chamber, in this nation. He idea he could separate us in Europe also.

But Putin was wrong. We are fix. Nosotros are united. And that'southward what we did: We stayed united.

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

Like many of you lot, I spent countless hours unifying our European Allies.

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

We countered Russia'southward lies with the truth. And now — now that he's acted, the free world is property him accountable, along with 27 members of the European Union — including French republic, Germany, Italy — as well as countries like the Britain, Canada, Japan, Korea, 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 always been.

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

Tonight, I say to the Russian oligarchs and the corrupt leaders who've bilked billions of dollars off this fierce authorities: No more.

The United states of america — I mean information technology. The Usa Department of Justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of the Russian oligarchs.

We're joining with European Allies to detect and seize their yachts, their luxury apartments, their private jets. We're coming for your sick-begotten gains.

Russian Oligarchs

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

He has no idea what's coming.

The ruble has already lost 30 percent of its value, the Russian stock market has lost 40 percent of its value, and trading remains suspended.

The Russian economic system is reeling, and Putin alone is the 1 to blame.

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

Help to Ukraine

But let me be articulate: Our forces are not engaged and will not 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 effect that Putin decides to continue moving west.

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

And equally I've made crystal articulate, the United States and our Allies will defend every inch of territory that is NATO territory with the full strength of our collective power — every single inch.

And nosotros're articulate-eyed. The Ukrainians are fighting back with pure courage. But the side by side few days, weeks, and months will exist hard on them.

Putin has unleashed violence and anarchy. But while he may make gains on the battlefield, he will pay a continuing high toll over the long run.

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

To all Americans, I'll be honest with yous, as I've always promised I would exist. A Russian dictator infa- — invading a strange country has costs around the world. And I'grand taking robust activeness to make sure the pain of our sanctions is targeted at the Russian economy and that we utilize every tool at our disposal to protect American businesses and consumers.

Tonight, I can announce the Usa has worked with 30 other countries to release 60 1000000 barrels of oil from reserves around the world. America volition lead that attempt, releasing thirty one thousand thousand barrels of our own Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And we stand ready to exercise more if necessary, united with our Allies.

These steps will assistance blunt gas prices here at habitation. But I know news most what'due south happening tin can seem alarming to all Americans. But I want you to know: Nosotros're going to be okay. We're going to be okay.

When the history of this era is written, Putin'due south war on Ukraine will have left Russian federation weaker and the rest of the world stronger.

Putin'due south War

While it shouldn't and while information technology shouldn't have taken something so terrible for people effectually the earth to see what'south at stake, now anybody sees it conspicuously.

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

Nosotros come across unity among the people who are gathering in cities in big crowds effectually the world, even in Russia, to demonstrate their support for the people of Ukraine.

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

This is the real test, and it's going to take time. So, permit the states continue to describe inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people.

To our fellow Ukrainian Americans who forged a deep bail that connects our ii nations: Nosotros stand up with yous. Nosotros stand up with yous.

Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, just he'll never gain the hearts and souls of Ukrainian people. He'll never — he'll never extinguish their dearest of freedom. And he volition never, never weaken the resolve of the costless world.

Nosotros meet this night in an America that has lived through two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced. The pandemic has been punishing. And then many families are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to keep up with the rise price of nutrient, gas, housing, then much more.

I understand, like many of you lot did. My dad had to leave his home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to notice work. So, like many of you, I grew upwardly in a family when the price of food went up, information technology was felt throughout the family unit; it had an impact.

That'south why one of the first things I did as President was fight to pass the American Rescue Plan, because people were hurting. We needed to act and we did.

American Rescue Plan

American Rescue Plan

Few pieces of legislation have done more at a critical moment in our history to lift us out of a crisis. It 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 food on the table. Remember those long lines of cars waiting for hours simply to get a box of nutrient put in their trunk? It cut the price of healthcare insurance. And as my dad used to say, information technology gave the people "just a little bit of animate room."

And unlike the $2 trillion revenue enhancement cut passed in the previous administration that benefitted the top ane percent of Americans, the American Rescue Programme helped working people and left no one backside. And, folks — and it worked. Information technology worked.

It worked and created jobs — lots of jobs. In fact, our economy created over vi.5 one thousand thousand new jobs just last year, more jobs in one yr than always before in the history of the United States of America.

Economic Progress Written report

Economic Progress Report

The economy grew at a rate of 5.7 last year — the strongest growth rate in 40 years and the commencement step in bringing fundamental alter to our economy that hasn't worked for working people in this nation for too long.

For the past xl years, nosotros were told that revenue enhancement breaks for those at the summit and benefits would trickle down and everyone would — would benefit.

But that trickle-downward theory led to a weaker economic growth, lower wages, bigger deficits, and a widening gap between the top and everyone else in the — in nearly a century.

Look, Vice President Harris and I ran for role — and I realize we accept fundamental disagreements on this — but ran for office with a new economic vision for America: invest in America; brainwash Americans; abound the workforce; build the economy from the lesser up and the heart out, not from the meridian down. Because nosotros know when the center grade grows — when the eye class grows, the poor go manner upwards and the wealthy do very well.

America used to take the best roads, bridges, and airports on World. And now our infrastructure is ranked 13th in the world. We won't exist able to compete for the jobs of the 21st century if we don't ready information technology.

That'southward why information technology was then important to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. And I give thanks my Republican friends who joined to invest and rebuild America — the single biggest investment in history.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

It was a bipartisan effort, and I want to thank the members of both parties who worked to make information technology happen. Nosotros're done talking virtually infrastructure weeks. We're at present talking about an infrastructure decade.

And look, it'due south going to — it'due south going to transform America to put u.s. on a path to win the economic contest of the 21st century that we face with the residuum of the earth, peculiarly Red china.

I've told Eleven Jinping: Information technology'south 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 across America. And we'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; begin to supercede the poisonous lead pipes, so every child, every American has make clean h2o to drink at home and at school.

We're going to provide — provide affordable high-speed Internet for every American — rural, suburban, urban, and Tribal communities. 4 thousand projects take already been announced. Many of yous have announced them in your districts.

And tonight, I'm announcing that, this twelvemonth, nosotros will start fixing over 65,000 miles of highway and 1,500 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 past buying American. Buy American products. Support American jobs.

The federal government spends about $600 billion a year to go along this country rubber and secure. There's been a police force on the books for about a century to make sure taxpayers' dollars back up American jobs and businesses. Every assistants — Democrat and Republican — says they'll exercise it, merely nosotros're really doing it.

We'll purchase America to make sure every — everything from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the steel on highway guardrails is made in America from beginning to end. All of information technology. All of it.

But, folks, to compete for the jobs of the future, we also demand to level the playing field with China and other competitors. That's why information technology'south so important to pass the bipartisan Innovation Act sitting in Congress that will make tape investments in emerging technologies and American manufacturing.

Bipartisan Innovation Act

Nosotros used to invest near 2 percent of our GDP in research and evolution. We don't now. Can't — Communist china is.

Let me give you i example why it's so of import to pass.

If yous travel 20 miles east of Columbus, Ohio, you'll find a thousand empty acres of country. It won't await like much. Only if y'all stop and look closely, you lot'll run into a "field of dreams" — the ground on which America'due south future will be built.

That'due south where Intel, the American company that helped build Silicon Valley, is going to build a $20 billion semiconductor "mega site." Upwards to eight state-of-the-art factories in one place. Ten thousand new jobs. And in those factories, the boilerplate job — about $135 — $135,000 a year.

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

Merely that'due south just the first.

Intel'due south CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who is here tonight — and I don't know where Pat is. Pat? There you get, Pat. Stand up. Pat came to run across me, and he told me they're ready to increment 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 yous to pass this bill.

And so, allow'due south not expect any longer. Send information technology to my desk-bound, I'll sign it, and nosotros volition really take off in a big mode.

And, folks, Intel is not alone. At that place'southward 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 agone, they would have gone overseas. That's what is happening.

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

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

All told, 369,000 new manufacturing jobs were created in America concluding year alone.

Folks, powered by people I've met — similar JoJo Burgess from generations of marriage steelworkers in Pittsburgh, who's here with usa tonight. Where are y'all, JoJo? There you go. Thanks, buddy.

As Ohio — as Ohio Sherrod Dark-brown says, "It'southward fourth dimension to bury the label 'Rust Chugalug.'" It's time to see the — the — what used to be called the Rust Belt become the — the habitation of a significant resurgence of manufacturing.

And with all the bright spots in our economy — record task growth, higher wages — besides many families are struggling to continue upwards with their bills.

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

I go it. That's why my meridian priority is getting prices nether control.

Inflation

I get it. That's why my top priority is getting prices under command.

Expect, our economy roared dorsum faster than nearly anyone predicted, just the pandemic meant that businesses had a difficult time hiring enough people considering of the pandemic to keep upward product in their factories. So, you didn't take people making those beams that went into buildings because they were out — the manufacturing plant was closed.

The pandemic also disrupted the global supply chain. Factories close. When that happens, it takes longer to make goods and get them to the warehouses, to the stores, and go — prices get upwardly.

Wait at cars last yr. I 3rd of all the inflation was considering of automobile sales. There weren't plenty semiconductors to make all the cars that people wanted to buy.

And guess what? Prices of automobiles went manner up, especially used vehicles as well.

And then, we have a choice.

I way to fight aggrandizement is to drive downwardly wages and brand Americans poorer.

I think I accept a better idea to fight inflation: Lower your costs, non your wages.

And, folks, that ways make more cars and semiconductors in America, more infrastructure and innovation in America, more than appurtenances moving faster and cheaper in America, more jobs where you tin earn a expert living in America.

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

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

I call it building a better America.

Building a Ameliorate America

My program to fight inflation will lower your costs and lower the deficit. Seventeen Nobel laureates in economics said my plan volition ease long-term inflationary pressures. Top business leaders and, I believe, near Americans back up the program.

And here's the plan.

First, cut the toll of prescription drugs. We pay more for the same drug produced by the aforementioned company in America than any other state in the globe.

Simply look at insulin. One in 10 Americans has diabetes. In Virginia, I met a 13-year-former boy — the handsome immature homo standing up at that place, Joshua Davis. He and his dad both have Type 1 diabetes, which means they need insulin every unmarried twenty-four hours.

Insulin costs about $ten a vial to make. That'southward what it costs the — the pharmaceutical company. Just drug companies accuse families similar Joshua and his dad upward to 30 times that amount.

I spoke with Joshua'southward mom. Imagine what it'south like to expect at your kid who needs insulin to stay healthy and have no idea how in God's name you're going to be able to pay for information technology — what it does to your family unit, but what it does to your nobility, your ability to wait your child in the middle, to be the parent yous look yourself to be. I really hateful it. Think about that. That'due south what I think about.

Y'all know, yesterday — Joshua is here tonight, only yesterday was his altogether. Happy birthday, buddy, by the mode.

For Joshua and 200,000 other young people with Blazon 1 diabetes, let's cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month so anybody tin can afford information technology. And drug companies will exercise very, very well — their turn a profit margin.

Price of Insulin

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

Await, the American Rescue Plan is helping millions of families on Affordable Intendance Deed plans to save them $ii,400 a year on their health premiums. Let's close the coverage gap and make those savings permanent.

And second, let'due south cutting energy costs for families an boilerplate of $500 a twelvemonth by combatting climatic change.

Let's provide an investment and taxation credit to weatherize your dwelling house and your business organization to be energy efficient and get a tax credit for it; double America'southward clean energy production in solar, wind, and then much more than; lower the price of electrical vehicles, saving another $80 a month that y'all've not going to have to pay at the pump.

Energy Efficiency

Folks — third — the third matter we tin do to change the standard of living for hardworking folks is cut the cost of childcare. Cut the cost of childcare.

Folks, if yous live in a major urban center in America, you can pay upwards to $14,000 a twelvemonth for childcare per child.

I was a unmarried dad for five years, raising two kids. I had a lot of aid, though. I had a mom, a dad, a brother, and sister that really helped.

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

My program would cutting the cost of childcare in one-half for most families and assistance parents, including millions of women who left the workforce during the pandemic considering they couldn't afford childcare to be able to get back to work, generating economic growth.

Cost of Child Intendance

Just my plan doesn't stop there. Information technology also includes abode and long-term care, more affordable housing, pre-Chiliad for three- and four-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 year will pay an additional penny in new taxes. Not a single penny.

I may be incorrect, but my estimate is, if nosotros took a hush-hush ballot in this floor, that we'd all agree that the present tax arrangement ain't fair. We have to prepare it.

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

Look, last year — like Chris Coons and Tom Cynic and my distinguished congresswoman — nosotros 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 however won 36 years in a row. The signal is: Even they understand they should pay just a fair share.

Last twelvemonth, 55 of the Fortune 500 companies earned $40 billion in profit and paid zero in federal taxes.

No, expect, it's not off-white. That'southward why I proposed a 15 per centum minimum tax charge per unit for corporations.

We've got — and that'south why in the G7 and other meetings overseas we were able to put together — I was able to exist somewhat helpful — 130 countries to agree on a global minimum revenue enhancement rate — and so companies tin't leave of paying their taxes at domicile by aircraft jobs and factories overseas. It'll enhance billions of dollars.

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

And so that's my plan. Only we have — we'll get into more detail afterward.

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

And so, what are we waiting for? Allow's get this done. Nosotros all know we've got to brand changes.

Folks, and while you're at information technology, ostend my nominees for the Federal Reserve which plays a critical function in fighting aggrandizement.

My plan will not only lower costs and give families a fair shot, it will lower the deficit.

The previous administration non merely ballooned the arrears with those taxation cuts for the very wealthy and corporations, it undermined the watchdogs — the job of those to keep pandemic relief funds from being wasted. Remember we had those debates about whether or not those watchdogs should be able to come across, every day, how much money was being spent, where it — was information technology going to the correct place?

In my assistants, the watchdogs are dorsum. And nosotros're going after the criminals who stole billions of relief money meant for small business and millions of Americans.

Pandemic Fraud

And tonight, I'm announcing that the Justice Department will shortly name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud.

And, look I recollect we all agree — cheers — by the end of this twelvemonth, the arrears volition be downwards to less than half what information technology was earlier I took function — the simply President e'er to cut the deficit by more than $i trillion in a single year.

Lowering your costs also meant demanding more competition. I'one thousand a backer, but commercialism without competition is non capitalism. Capitalism without competition is exploitation. Information technology drives up prices.

When corporations have to compete, their profits go upwards and your prices get up — 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 — guess what? You got 4 basic meatpacking facilities. That's it. Yous play with them or you don't become to play at all. And y'all pay a hell of a lot more — a hell of a lot more than considering there'south but four.

Run into what's happening with sea carriers moving goods in and out of America. During the pandemic, near half a dozen or less foreign-owned companies raised prices by as much as 1,000 percent and made record profits.

Tonight, I'yard 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 watch.

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

We're besides going to cutting costs to keep the economy going strong and giving workers a fair shot; provide more than preparation and apprenticeships; rent them based on skills, not just their degrees.

Let'south pass the Paycheck Fairness Human activity and paid go out raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour; and extend the Kid Tax Credit and so no ane has to enhance a family in poverty.

Paycheck Fairness Act

Let's increase Pell Grants; increment our historic support for HBCUs; and invest in what Jill, our First Lady, who teaches total-time, calls America's all-time-kept hush-hush: community colleges.

Look, let's laissez passer the PRO Act. When a majority of workers want to form a union, they shouldn't be able to exist stopped.

When we invest in our workers and we build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out, together we can do something nosotros haven't washed in a long fourth dimension: build a better America.

For more two years, COVID has impacted every determination in our lives and the life of this nation. And I know yous're tired, frustrated, and exhausted. 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 considering they lost somebody.

But I besides know this: Because of the progress we've fabricated, considering of your resilience and the tools that we have been provided by this Congress, tonight I tin say we're moving frontwards safely, dorsum to a norm- — more normal routines.

We've reached a new moment in the fight against COVID-nineteen where severe cases are down to a level non seen since July of last year.

Just a few days ago, the Eye for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new mask guidelines. Under the new guidelines, virtually Americans in most of the country can now go mask free.

And based on projections — and based on projections, more of the country will reach a point across — that signal across the side by side couple of weeks.

And cheers to the progress we've made in the past year, COVID-19 no longer demand control our lives. I know some are talking near "living with COVID-19." Merely tonight, I say that we never will just accept living with COVID-nineteen; nosotros'll continue to combat the virus as we do other diseases.

And because this virus mutates and spreads, we have to stay on baby-sit. And hither are four common sense steps equally we motion forward safely, in my view:

COVID-19

Kickoff, stay protected with vaccines and treatments. Nosotros know how incredibly effective vaccines are. If you're vaccinated and additional, you have the highest degree of protection, and we'll never requite up on vaccinating more than Americans.

At present, I know parents with kids nether 5 are eager to see their vaccines authorized for their children. Scientists are working hard to get that done, and we'll be set with plenty of vaccines if and when they practice.

Nosotros're already — nosotros are also set up with anti-viral treatments. If you go COVID-19, the Pfizer pill reduces your chances of ending up in the infirmary past 90 percent.

I've ordered more than pills than anyone in the globe has. Pfizer is working overtime to get united states of america a 1000000 pills this month and more than than double that adjacent calendar month.

And at present we're launching the "Test to Treat" initiative so people can go tested at a chemist's and, if they prove positive, receive the antiviral pills on the spot at no toll.

And folks if you're immunocompromised or accept some other vulnerability, nosotros take treatments and gratis loftier-quality masks.

We're leaving no i behind or ignoring anyone's needs as we move forward.

On testing, we've made hundreds of millions of tests available, and y'all can guild them for gratuitous to your doorstep.

And we've already ordered free tests. If y'all already ordered free tests, this night I'm announcing yous tin order another group of tests. COVID — get to COVIDTests.gov, starting next week, and you tin get more than tests.

Covid Tests

Order More Free Covid Tests On covidtests.gov

2nd, we must fix for new variants.

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

I can't hope a new variant won't come, just I ca- — I can promise you nosotros'll do everything within our power to exist ready if information technology does.

3rd, we can end the shutdown of schools and businesses. Nosotros have the tools we need.

It's time for America to get dorsum to work and fill our peachy downtowns over again with people. People working from home can feel safe and brainstorm to return to their offices.

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

Our schools are open. Permit's keep information technology that way. Our kids need to be in school.

With 75 percent of adult Americans fully vaccinated and hospitalizations down by 77 per centum, almost Americans can remove their masks and stay in the classroom and movement forwards safely.

We achieved this because nosotros provided free vaccines, treatments, tests, and masks. Of course, continuing this costs money, so it will non surprise y'all I'll be back to run across you all. And re- — I'grand going to shortly send a request to Congress.

The vast majority of Americans accept used these tools and may want to again — we may demand them again. And then I expect Congress — and I hope you'll pass that speedily.

4th, we'll go on vaccinating the world. Nosotros've sent 475 1000000 vaccine doses to 112 countries — more than than whatsoever nation on Earth. We won't stop, because you tin't build a wall high enough to keep out a —

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

You know, we've lost and so much in COVID-19. Time with one another. The worst of all, the much loss of life.

Let'south utilize this moment to reset. And so, stop looking at COVID as a partisan dividing line. Run into it for what it is: a God-awful disease.

Let's finish sending — seeing each other as enemies and start seeing each other for who we are: fellow Americans.

Covid-19 Reset

Look nosotros tin't change how divided we've been. That was a long fourth dimension in coming. Simply nosotros tin change how to motion frontward on COVID-19 and other problems that we must confront together.

I recently visited New York City Police Department days after the funerals of Officeholder Wilbert Mora and his partner, Officer Jason Rivera.

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

Officer Mora was 27 years old. Officeholder Rivera was 22 years onetime. Both Dominican Americans who grew up in the aforementioned streets that they subsequently 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 safety in every community information technology deserves.

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

Crime Prevention

Allow'south non abandon our streets or choose between safety and equal justice. Allow's come up together and protect our communities, restore trust, and hold 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 y'all all provided $350 billion that cities, states, and counties can use to rent more police force, invest in more proven strategies similar community violence interruption, trusted messengers breaking the cycle of violence and trauma and giving immature people some hope.

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

It's to fund the constabulary. Fund them. Fund them. Fund them with the resources and training — resource and training they need to protect our communities.

I inquire Democrats and Republicans akin to pass my budget and keep our neighborhoods safe.

And we'll do everything in my power to fissure downwardly on gun trafficking of ghost guns that y'all can purchase online, assemble at domicile — no serial numbers, tin't be traced.

I enquire Congress to pass proven measures to reduce gun violence. Laissez passer universal background checks. Why should anyone on the terrorist listing exist able to purchase a weapon. Why? Why?

And, folks, ban assault weapons with high-capacity magazines that concord upwardly to 100 rounds. You lot 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 i. Imagine had we done that with the tobacco manufactures.

These laws don't infringe on the Second Subpoena; they salvage lives.

Gun Violence

The most fundamental right in America is the right to vote and have it counted. And await, information technology'southward under attack.

In state after state, new laws accept been passed not but to suppress the vote — we've been there before — merely to subvert the unabridged election. We can't allow this happen.

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

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

Justice Breyer, thank you for your service. Thank you, cheers, thank you. I mean it. Go upwardly. Stand — let me see you. Thanks.

And we all know — no matter what your ideology, we all know one of the most serious ramble responsibilities a President has is nominating someone to serve on the Us Supreme Court.

Equally I did 4 days ago, I've nominated a Circuit Court of Appeals — Ketanji Brown Jackson. One of our nation's top legal minds who volition go along in but Brey- — Justice Breyer'southward legacy of excellence. A former top litigator in private do, a quondam federal public defender from a family of public-school educators and police force officers — she's a consensus builder.

Since she's been nominated, she's received a broad range of support, including the Fraternal Order of Police and onetime judges appointed past Democrats and Republicans.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Since she'south been nominated, she's received a broad range of support, including the Fraternal Society of Law and quondam judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.

Folks, if we are to accelerate freedom and justice, we need to secure our border and fix the immigration arrangement.

And as you might guess, I think we can do both. At our edge, nosotros've installed new technology, similar cutting-edge scanners, to better detect drug smuggling.

Nosotros've set joint patrols with United mexican states and Republic of guatemala to catch more human being traffickers.

We're putting in place dedicated immigration judges in significant larger number so families fleeing persecution and violence tin can have their cases — cases heard faster — and those who aren't legitimately here tin can be sent back.

Nosotros're screening — we're securing commitments and supporting partners in Due south and Cardinal 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 country — my forebearers and many of yours.

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

Information technology'due south non but the right affair to do, it'southward economically smart thing to do. That's why the immigration reform is supported past everyone from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.Southward. Chamber of Commerce. Let's go it done in one case and for all.

Folks, advancing liberty and justice likewise requires protecting the rights of women. The ramble right affirmed past Roe v. Wade, continuing precedent for half a century, is nether attack as never before.

If you want to go frontwards non backwards, we must protect access to healthcare; preserve a adult female's right to choose — and continue to advance maternal healthcare for all Americans.

Roe v. Wade

And folks, for our LGBTQ+ Americans, permit's finally get the bipartisan Equality Act to my desk. The onslaught of land laws targeting transgender Americans and their families — it's merely incorrect.

Equally I said concluding year, especially to our younger transgender Americans, I'll always have your back as your President so you tin can be yourself and reach your God-given potential.

Bipartisan Equality Act

Folks equally I've but demonstrated, while it oft appears we exercise not hold and that — we — we do concur on a lot more things than we acknowledge.

I signed eighty bipartisan bills into police force last year, from preventing government shutdowns, to protecting Asian Americans from yet-too-common hate crimes, to reforming military justice. And we'll before long be strengthening the Violence Confronting Women Human action that I first wrote three decades ago.

And information technology's important — it'southward important for us to show — to testify the nation that nosotros can come together and do large things.

So tonight, I'm offering a "Unity Agenda for the Nation": four big things we can practise together, in my view.

Unity Agenda

President Biden's Unity Agenda

First, vanquish the opioid epidemic. There'south so much we can practise: increment funding for prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and recovery; go rid of outdated rules and terminate doctors and — that stop doctors from prescribing treatments; terminate the flow of illicit drugs by working with land and local law enforcement to go after the traffickers.

And if y'all're suffering from addiction, you lot know — y'all should know yous're non solitary. I believe in recovery, and I celebrate the 23 million — 23 million Americans in recovery.

Second, let'south take on mental health — especially amid our children, whose lives and education have been turned upside downwardly.

The American Rescue Programme gave schools money to hire teachers and assistance students brand up for lost learning. I urge every parent to make sure your school — your school does merely that. They accept the coin.

We tin can all play a function. Sign up to exist a tutor or a mentor.

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

Every bit Frances Haugen, who is here tonight with us, has shown, nosotros must concur social media platforms answerable for the national experiment they're conducting on our children for turn a profit. Folks — thanks. Give thanks you lot for the courage you showed.

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

Social Media Platforms

Hold Social Media Platforms Accountable

And let's go all Americans the mental health services they need — more people can turn for help and total parity between concrete and mental healthcare if we treat it that way in our insurance.

Look, the third piece of that agenda is back up our veterans. Veterans are the backbone and the spine of this country. They're the best of usa.

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

My administration is providing assist and chore training and housing, and at present helping lower-income veterans get VA intendance debt free.

And our troops in Iraq have faced — and Transitional islamic state of afghanistan — take faced many dangers. Ane being stationed at bases, animate in toxic smoke from burn pits. Many of y'all take been in that location. I've been in and out of Republic of iraq and Afghanistan over 40 times. These burn pits that incinerate waste — the wastes of war, medical and chancy fabric, jet fuel, and then much more.

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

1 of those — one of those soldiers was my son, Major Boyfriend Biden. I don't know for sure if the fire pit that he lived near — that his hooch was near in Iraq and, earlier than that, in Kosovo is the cause of his brain cancer and the affliction of so many other troops. But I'one thousand committed to find out everything we can.

Committed to war machine families like Danielle Robinson from Ohio, the widow of Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson. He was born a soldier. Army National Baby-sit. Gainsay medic in Kosovo and Iraq. Stationed near Baghdad, just yards from burn down pits the size of football fields.

Danielle is here with us this evening. They loved going to Ohio State football games. And he loved building Legos with their girl. But cancer from prolonged exposure to burn pits ravaged Heath's lungs and trunk.

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

Through her pain, she plant purpose to need that we exercise better. Tonight, Danielle, we are going to exercise better.

The VA — the VA is pioneering new ways of linking toxic exposures to disease, already helping more veterans go benefits. And this evening, I'm announcing we're expanding eligibility to veterans suffering from 9 respiratory cancers.

Veterans

I'g as well calling on Congress to pass a constabulary to make certain veterans devastated by toxic exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan finally go the benefits and the comprehensive healthcare they deserve.

And fourth and last, permit's end cancer as nosotros know it. This is personal. This is personal to me and to Jill and to Kamala then many of y'all. And then many of you lot have lost someone you lot love — husband, wife, son, daughter, mom, dad.

Cancer is the number-two cause of decease in America, second but to heart disease.

Terminal month, I appear the program to supercharge the Cancer Moonshot that President Obama asked me to lead vi years ago.

Cancer Moonshot

Our goal is to cutting cancer death rates by at least l percent over the side by side 25 years. And I think nosotros can exercise improve than that: turn cancers from death sentences into treatable diseases, more back up for patients and families.

To become at that place, I phone call on Congress to fund what I called ARPA-H: Advanced — Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. Patterned after DARPA in the Defence force Department, projects that led — in DARPA — to the Net, GPS, and then much more that brand our forces more safer and be able to wage state of war more — with more clarity.

ARPA-H will have a atypical purpose to drive breakthroughs in cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes, and more than.

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

My young man Americans — tonight nosotros've gathered in a sacred space: the citadel of democracy. In this Capitol, generation after generation of Americans have debated great questions amid bully strife and have done great things.

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

Now is the hour: our moment of responsibleness, our test of resolve and censor of history itself. Information technology is in this moment that our character of this generation is formed, our purpose is constitute, our time to come is forged.

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

As difficult as those times have been, I'grand more than optimistic about America today than I've been my whole life because I see the future that's within our grasp, because I know at that place is merely nothing beyond our camas- — our capacity.

We're the only nation on World that has always turned every crisis we've faced into an opportunity, the simply nation that tin be defined by a single word: possibilities.

Then, on this dark, on our 245th year as a nation, I've come to report on the land of the nation — the state of the marriage. And my report is this: The State of the Marriage is strong because you, the American people, are potent.

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 Marriage

This is our moment to meet and overcome the challenges of our time. And we will, every bit one people, one America — the United states.

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

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

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