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President Biden's Country of the Union Address

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

Tonight — tonight we encounter equally Democrats, Republicans, and independents, only, most importantly, as Americans with a duty to i another, to America, to the American people, and to the Constitution, and an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny.

Six — cheers. Six days ago, Russia'south Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make information technology bend to his menacing means. But he badly miscalculated. He idea 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 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 voice communication to the European Parliament, "Light will win over darkness."

The Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States is here tonight sitting with the First Lady. Permit each of us, if you're able to stand, stand and send an unmistakable signal to the globe and Ukraine. Cheers. Give thanks you, thank you, thank you.

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

Yes. We, the United States of America, stand with the Ukrainian people.

Throughout our history, nosotros've learned this lesson: When dictators do not pay a toll 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'due south why the NATO Alliance was created: to secure peace and stability in Europe after World War Two.

The United States is a fellow member, along with 29 other nations. It matters. American affairs matters. American resolve matters.

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

He thought the West and NATO wouldn't answer. He thought he could split us at habitation, in this bedroom, in this nation. He idea he could separate u.s.a. in Europe as well.

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

We prepared extensively and carefully. We 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.

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

Nosotros shared with the world, in advance, what nosotros knew Putin was planning and precisely how he would effort to falsely and justify his assailment.

We countered Russia'south lies with the truth. And now — now that he'southward acted, the complimentary world is holding him accountable, along with 27 members of the European Union — including France, Frg, Italia — every bit well as countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and many others. Fifty-fifty Switzerland are inflicting pain on Russia and supporting the people of Ukraine.

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

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

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

The United States — I hateful information technology. The United States Department of Justice is assembling a dedicated job force to go after the crimes of the Russian oligarchs.

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

Russian Oligarchs

And, tonight, I'thousand announcing that nosotros 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 percent of its value, the Russian stock marketplace has lost 40 percentage of its value, and trading remains suspended.

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

Together with our Allies, nosotros're providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom: military assistance, economic assistance, humanitarian assist. We're giving more than than a billion dollars in direct assistance to Ukraine. And we'll go on to assistance the Ukrainian people equally they defend their country and assistance ease their suffering.

Help to Ukraine

Only let me be clear: Our forces are not engaged and volition not engage in the disharmonize with Russian forces in Ukraine. Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine but to defend our NATO Allies in the event 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 Republic of estonia.

And as I've made crystal clear, the United States and our Allies will defend every inch of territory that is NATO territory with the full force of our commonage power — every unmarried inch.

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

Putin has unleashed violence and anarchy. Just while he may brand gains on the battlefield, he volition pay a continuing 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 accept. They've known 30 years of independence — accept repeatedly shown that they will not tolerate anyone who tries to take their country backwards.

To all Americans, I'll be honest with you, as I've e'er promised I would be. A Russian dictator infa- — invading a foreign country has costs around the globe. And I'm taking robust activeness to make certain the hurting of our sanctions is targeted at the Russian economic system and that nosotros use every tool at our disposal to protect American businesses and consumers.

Tonight, I tin can denote the United States has worked with 30 other countries to release lx million barrels of oil from reserves around the world. America will lead that effort, releasing 30 million barrels of our ain Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And we stand up ready to practice more if necessary, united with our Allies.

These steps will help blunt gas prices here at home. But I know news well-nigh what's happening can seem alarming to all Americans. Only I want you to know: We're going to be okay. We're going to be okay.

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

Putin's War

While it shouldn't and while it shouldn't accept taken something and so terrible for people around the world to come across what'southward at stake, now anybody sees information technology clearly.

We see the unity among leaders of nations, a more unified Europe, a more unified Westward.

We see unity among the people who are gathering in cities in large crowds around the globe, even in Russia, to demonstrate their back up for the people of Ukraine.

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

This is the real test, and it'southward going to take fourth dimension. So, allow us go along to draw inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people.

To our young man Ukrainian Americans who forged a deep bail that connects our two nations: We stand with y'all. 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 love of freedom. And he will never, never weaken the resolve of the free earth.

We meet this evening in an America that has lived through ii of the hardest years this nation has ever faced. The pandemic has been punishing. And so many families are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to keep upwards with the rising toll of food, gas, housing, and so much more.

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

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

American Rescue Programme

American Rescue Plan

Few pieces of legislation have washed more at a critical moment in our history to elevator us out of a crunch. It fueled our efforts to vaccinate the nation and gainsay COVID-19. Information technology delivered firsthand economic relief to tens of millions of Americans. It helped put food on the table. Call back those long lines of cars waiting for hours simply to become a box of nutrient put in their trunk? It cut the cost of healthcare insurance. And as my dad used to say, it gave the people "merely a little flake of breathing room."

And unlike the $two trillion tax cut passed in the previous administration that benefitted the top 1 per centum of Americans, the American Rescue Plan helped working people and left no ane backside. And, folks — and it worked. Information technology worked.

It worked and created jobs — lots of jobs. In fact, our economy created over 6.five million new jobs just concluding year, more jobs in 1 yr than always earlier in the history of the U.s.a. of America.

Economical Progress Report

Economic Progress Report

The economy grew at a charge per unit of v.7 final yr — the strongest growth rate in xl years and the outset step in bringing key alter to our economy that hasn't worked for working people in this nation for as well long.

For the by 40 years, we were told that tax breaks for those at the pinnacle and benefits would trickle down and everyone would — would benefit.

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

Wait, Vice President Harris and I ran for office — and I realize we accept cardinal disagreements on this — only ran for function with a new economic vision for America: invest in America; educate Americans; grow the workforce; build the economic system from the bottom up and the middle out, not from the top down. Because we know when the heart class grows — when the middle course grows, the poor go fashion up and the wealthy exercise very well.

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

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

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

It was a bipartisan effort, and I desire to thank the members of both parties who worked to make it happen. We're done talking about infrastructure weeks. We're now talking virtually an infrastructure decade.

And expect, information technology's going to — information technology's going to transform America to put us on a path to win the economic competition of the 21st century that we face with the residuum of the earth, peculiarly China.

I've told 11 Jinping: It'southward never been a good bet to bet confronting the American people.

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

We'll build a national network of 500,000 electrical vehicle charging stations; brainstorm to replace the poisonous pb pipes, and then every child, every American has clean water 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. Iv k projects have already been announced. Many of you have appear them in your districts.

And this night, I'm announcing that, this yr, we will start fixing over 65,000 miles of highway and i,500 bridges in busted.

Highways

Repairs Begin on 65k Highways

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

The federal regime spends almost $600 billion a year to keep this state safe and secure. There's been a law on the books for near a century to brand sure taxpayers' dollars support American jobs and businesses. Every assistants — Democrat and Republican — says they'll do it, but nosotros're actually doing it.

We'll buy America to brand certain every — everything from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the steel on highway guardrails is made in America from starting time to terminate. All of it. All of information technology.

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

Bipartisan Innovation Act

We used to invest almost ii percent of our GDP in enquiry and development. Nosotros don't now. Can't — China is.

Let me give you i example why information technology's so of import to laissez passer.

If you travel twenty miles eastward of Columbus, Ohio, you'll observe a thousand empty acres of land. It won't look like much. Simply if you lot stop and expect closely, yous'll see a "field of dreams" — the footing on which America'due south future will be built.

That'south where Intel, the American company that helped build Silicon Valley, is going to build a $20 billion semiconductor "mega site." Upwardly to eight land-of-the-fine art factories in one identify. 10 grand new jobs. And in those factories, the average task — near $135 — $135,000 a twelvemonth.

Some of the about sophisticated manufacturing in the earth to brand computer chips the size of a fingertip that ability the globe and everyday lives, from smartphones, technology that — the Internet — technology that's yet to exist invented.

But that's just the beginning.

Intel's CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who is here tonight — and I don't know where Pat is. Pat? In that location yous go, Pat. Stand up. Pat came to encounter 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 bill.

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

And, folks, Intel is not alone. At that place'south something happening in America. Just await around, and you'll see an amazing story — the rebirth of pride that comes from stamping products "Made 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'southward what is happening.

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

GM is making the largest investment in its history — $7 billion to build electric vehicles, creating 4,000 jobs in Michigan.

All told, 369,000 new manufacturing jobs were created in America concluding yr lonely.

Folks, powered past people I've met — similar JoJo Burgess from generations of union steelworkers in Pittsburgh, who's here with united states this evening. Where are you, JoJo? There you go. Thanks, buddy.

As Ohio — every bit Ohio Sherrod Brown says, "It's time to coffin the label 'Rust Belt.'" Information technology'south time to run across the — the — what used to be called the Rust Belt go the — the abode of a meaning resurgence of manufacturing.

And with all the vivid spots in our economy — tape job growth, college wages — too many families are struggling to keep up with their bills.

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

I get it. That'southward why my top priority is getting prices under control.

Inflation

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

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

The pandemic also disrupted the global supply chain. Factories shut. When that happens, information technology takes longer to make goods and become them to the warehouses, to the stores, and go — prices go up.

Look at cars last year. One tertiary of all the inflation was because of automobile sales. In that location weren't plenty semiconductors to brand all the cars that people wanted to buy.

And estimate what? Prices of automobiles went way upwards, especially used vehicles as well.

And so, we have a choice.

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

I remember I have a improve idea to fight inflation: Lower your costs, not your wages.

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

Instead of relying on foreign supply chains, allow's make information technology in America.

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

I telephone call it edifice a better America.

Building a Meliorate America

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

And here's the plan.

First, cut the price of prescription drugs. Nosotros pay more for the aforementioned drug produced by the same visitor in America than whatsoever other country in the globe.

Just look at insulin. 1 in ten Americans has diabetes. In Virginia, I met a xiii-twelvemonth-erstwhile boy — the handsome young man continuing upwards there, Joshua Davis. He and his dad both have Type one 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. Only drug companies charge families like Joshua and his dad up to thirty times that corporeality.

I spoke with Joshua's mom. Imagine what it's like to expect at your child who needs insulin to stay healthy and have no idea how in God's name yous're going to exist able to pay for it — what it does to your family, only what it does to your dignity, your ability to wait your kid in the eye, to be the parent you expect yourself to be. I actually mean it. Call back about that. That's what I think about.

You know, yesterday — Joshua is hither this night, but yesterday was his altogether. Happy birthday, buddy, by the manner.

For Joshua and 200,000 other immature people with Type 1 diabetes, let's cap the cost of insulin at $35 a calendar month so anybody tin afford it. And drug companies will do very, very well — their turn a profit margin.

Cost of Insulin

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

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

And second, allow's cut energy costs for families an boilerplate of $500 a twelvemonth by combatting climatic change.

Let'due south provide an investment and tax credit to weatherize your dwelling and your business to exist energy efficient and get a revenue enhancement credit for it; double America's make clean free energy production in solar, wind, and and so much more; lower the price of electric vehicles, saving another $80 a month that you've not going to have to pay at the pump.

Energy Efficiency

Folks — third — the third thing nosotros can do to change the standard of living for hardworking folks is cut the cost of childcare. Cut the cost of childcare.

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

I was a single dad for five years, raising ii kids. I had a lot of help, though. I had a mom, a dad, a brother, and sister that really helped.

Just centre-class and working folks shouldn't have to pay more than 7 percentage of their income to care for their young children.

My plan would cut the cost of childcare in one-half for about families and assist parents, including millions of women who left the workforce during the pandemic because they couldn't beget childcare to exist able to become dorsum to work, generating economical growth.

Cost of Child Intendance

But my plan doesn't stop there. Information technology also includes dwelling house and long-term care, more affordable housing, pre-1000 for three- and four-year-olds. All of these will lower costs to families.

And nether my plan, nobody — permit 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 wrong, but my guess is, if we took a secret election in this floor, that nosotros'd all agree that the present tax system ain't fair. Nosotros accept to fix it.

I'yard not looking to punish anybody, just let'southward make corporations and wealthy Americans outset paying their fair share.

Wait, terminal year — similar Chris Coons and Tom Cynic and my distinguished congresswoman — nosotros come from the land of corporate America. There are more than corporations incorporated in Delaware than every other land in America combined. And I notwithstanding won 36 years in a row. The point is: Even they understand they should pay but a off-white share.

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

No, look, information technology'due south non fair. That's why I proposed a 15 per centum minimum tax rate for corporations.

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

And that'southward why I've proposed endmost loopholes for the very wealthy who don't pay — who pay a lower revenue enhancement rate than a teacher and a firefighter.

So that's my plan. Only we take — we'll go into more item subsequently.

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

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

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

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

The previous administration not just ballooned the deficit with those revenue enhancement cuts for the very wealthy and corporations, it undermined the watchdogs — the task of those to proceed pandemic relief funds from being wasted. Call up nosotros had those debates about whether or not those watchdogs should be able to see, every day, how much money was being spent, where information technology — was it going to the right identify?

In my administration, the watchdogs are back. And we're going later the criminals who stole billions of relief money meant for small business organisation and millions of Americans.

Pandemic Fraud

And this evening, I'g announcing that the Justice Department will shortly name a principal prosecutor for pandemic fraud.

And, look I retrieve nosotros all agree — thank you — by the end of this twelvemonth, the deficit will be downwardly to less than half what it was before I took office — the but President ever to cut the deficit past more than $1 trillion in a unmarried year.

Lowering your costs likewise meant enervating more than competition. I'grand a capitalist, but commercialism without contest is not capitalism. Capitalism without contest is exploitation. It drives up prices.

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

Small-scale businesses and family farmers and ranchers — I demand not tell some of my Republican friends from those states — guess what? Yous got four basic meatpacking facilities. That's it. You play with them or you don't get to play at all. And yous pay a hell of a lot more — a hell of a lot more because at that place'southward simply 4.

See what's happening with ocean carriers moving goods in and out of America. During the pandemic, near half a dozen or less foreign-endemic companies raised prices past as much as 1,000 pct and made record profits.

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

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

Medicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones become the care they deserve and that they await, and they will await at that closely.

Nosotros're likewise going to cut costs to keep the economic system going stiff and giving workers a fair shot; provide more preparation and apprenticeships; rent them based on skills, non but their degrees.

Allow'south pass the Paycheck Fairness Deed and paid get out raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour; and extend the Kid Revenue enhancement Credit so no one has to raise a family in poverty.

Paycheck Fairness Deed

Let's increase Pell Grants; increase our historic support for HBCUs; and invest in what Jill, our First Lady, who teaches full-fourth dimension, calls America's best-kept hole-and-corner: customs colleges.

Await, let'south laissez passer the PRO Act. When a majority of workers want to form a wedlock, they shouldn't exist able to exist stopped.

When we invest in our workers and we build an economy from the lesser up and the heart out, together we can exercise something we haven't done in a long time: build a better America.

For more than ii years, COVID has impacted every decision in our lives and the life of this nation. And I know yous're tired, frustrated, and exhausted. That doesn't even count the close to a million people who sit at a dining room table or a kitchen table and look at an empty chair considering they lost somebody.

But I also know this: Because of the progress nosotros've made, because of your resilience and the tools that we have been provided past this Congress, this evening I tin can say we're moving forrad safely, back to a norm- — more normal routines.

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

But a few days ago, the Centre for Illness Control and Prevention issued a new mask guidelines. Under the new guidelines, most Americans in most of the country can now go mask gratuitous.

And based on projections — and based on projections, more than of the state will attain a point beyond — that point across the side by side couple of weeks.

And thanks to the progress we've made in the past twelvemonth, COVID-19 no longer need control our lives. I know some are talking about "living with COVID-xix." Only this night, I say that nosotros never will just accept living with COVID-19; we'll continue to combat the virus as we practise other diseases.

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

COVID-19

Get-go, stay protected with vaccines and treatments. We know how incredibly constructive vaccines are. If yous're vaccinated and boosted, you lot have the highest degree of protection, and nosotros'll never give upward on vaccinating more Americans.

Now, I know parents with kids under v are eager to run across their vaccines authorized for their children. Scientists are working hard to become that washed, and we'll be ready with plenty of vaccines if and when they practise.

We're already — we are besides ready with anti-viral treatments. If you get COVID-19, the Pfizer pill reduces your chances of catastrophe upward in the infirmary by 90 pct.

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

And now we're launching the "Exam to Treat" initiative so people can get tested at a pharmacy and, if they prove positive, receive the antiviral pills on the spot at no cost.

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

Nosotros're leaving no one behind or ignoring anyone'southward needs as we move forward.

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

And we've already ordered free tests. If you already ordered free tests, tonight I'1000 announcing yous tin social club another group of tests. COVID — go to COVIDTests.gov, starting next week, and you can get more tests.

Covid Tests

Order More Free Covid Tests On covidtests.gov

Second, nosotros must prepare for new variants.

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

I can't promise a new variant won't come up, but I ca- — I tin promise yous we'll exercise everything within our ability to be set up if it does.

Tertiary, we can terminate the shutdown of schools and businesses. Nosotros accept the tools we need.

Information technology'south time for America to get back to work and fill up our great downtowns again with people. People working from home can feel condom and begin to render to their offices.

Nosotros're doing that here in the federal government. The vast majority of federal workers will once once more work in person.

Our schools are open. Let'southward keep it that way. Our kids need to be in schoolhouse.

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

We achieved this considering we provided free vaccines, treatments, tests, and masks. Of course, continuing this costs money, and so information technology will not surprise yous I'll be back to come across y'all all. And re- — I'm going to shortly send a request to Congress.

The vast bulk of Americans take used these tools and may want to again — we may demand them again. And so I await Congress — and I hope y'all'll pass that quickly.

Fourth, nosotros'll go on vaccinating the earth. We've sent 475 million vaccine doses to 112 countries — more than than any nation on Earth. We won't terminate, considering you can't build a wall high enough to proceed out a —

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

Yous know, we've lost so much in COVID-xix. Fourth dimension with one another. The worst of all, the much loss of life.

Let's apply this moment to reset. Then, stop looking at COVID as a partisan dividing line. See it for what it is: a God-awful disease.

Allow'south stop sending — seeing each other equally enemies and start seeing each other for who nosotros are: fellow Americans.

Covid-19 Reset

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

I recently visited New York Metropolis Police force Section days subsequently the funerals of Officeholder Wilbert Mora and his partner, Officer Jason Rivera.

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

Officer Mora was 27 years old. Officeholder Rivera was 22 years old. Both Dominican Americans who grew upwardly in the same streets that they afterward chose to patrol equally police officers.

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

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

Crime Prevention

Let's not abandon our streets or cull between safety and equal justice. Allow'due south come up together and protect our communities, restore trust, and hold constabulary enforcement answerable.

That'south 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 tin use to hire more constabulary, invest in more proven strategies similar customs violence interruption, trusted messengers breaking the wheel of violence and trauma and giving young people some hope.

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

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

I ask Democrats and Republicans akin to laissez passer my budget and proceed our neighborhoods safe.

And we'll practise everything in my power to scissure down on gun trafficking of ghost guns that you tin can buy online, assemble at abode — no serial numbers, tin't be traced.

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

And, folks, ban set on weapons with high-capacity magazines that concur up to 100 rounds. Yous retrieve the deer are wearing Kevlar vests?

Expect, repeal the liability shield that makes gun manufacturers the but industry in America that can't be sued — the only 1. Imagine had nosotros done that with the tobacco manufactures.

These laws don't infringe on the 2d Subpoena; they save lives.

Gun Violence

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

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

Tonight, I call on the Senate to pass — pass the Freedom to Vote Deed. Pass the John Lewis Act — Voting Rights Act. And while you lot're at it, pass the Disembalm Deed then Americans know who is funding our elections.

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

Justice Breyer, thank you for your service. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I mean it. Get upwardly. Stand up — let me meet you lot. Thank you.

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

As I did iv days ago, I've nominated a Circuit Court of Appeals — Ketanji Brownish Jackson. I of our nation's peak legal minds who volition continue in just Brey- — Justice Breyer'south legacy of excellence. A one-time top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender from a family of public-school educators and constabulary officers — she's a consensus architect.

Since she'due south been nominated, she'due south received a broad range of support, including the Fraternal Social club of Police and former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.

Guess Ketanji Brown Jackson

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

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

And as you might guess, I recollect we can exercise both. At our border, we've installed new engineering science, like cutting-edge scanners, to better detect drug smuggling.

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

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

We're screening — nosotros're securing commitments and supporting partners in Due south and Cardinal America to host more refugees and secure their own borders.

We tin 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 then businesses take workers they need and families don't wait decades to reunite.

It's not simply the correct thing to do, it's economically smart thing to do. That's why the immigration reform is supported by everyone from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.S. Sleeping accommodation of Commerce. Let's become it done once and for all.

Folks, advancing freedom and justice also requires protecting the rights of women. The constitutional correct affirmed by Roe v. Wade, standing precedent for half a century, is nether set on every bit never before.

If you want to go forrad not backwards, we must protect access to healthcare; preserve a woman's right to choose — 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 state laws targeting transgender Americans and their families — it's simply incorrect.

As I said last year, specially to our younger transgender Americans, I'll always have your back as your President so you can exist yourself and reach your God-given potential.

Bipartisan Equality Act

Folks equally I've just demonstrated, while information technology often appears we do not concord and that — we — we do agree on a lot more than things than nosotros acknowledge.

I signed 80 bipartisan bills into law last yr, from preventing government shutdowns, to protecting Asian Americans from nevertheless-also-common detest crimes, to reforming military justice. And we'll presently be strengthening the Violence Against Women Act that I get-go wrote three decades agone.

And it's important — it'due south important for u.s. to show — to show the nation that we can come up together and exercise big things.

And then this evening, I'm offer a "Unity Agenda for the Nation": four big things nosotros can do together, in my view.

Unity Agenda

President Biden's Unity Agenda

Offset, beat the opioid epidemic. There's so much nosotros can do: increase funding for prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and recovery; go rid of outdated rules and stop doctors and — that stop doctors from prescribing treatments; stop the menstruum of illicit drugs past working with country and local law enforcement to become subsequently the traffickers.

And if you're suffering from addiction, you know — you should know you're not alone. I believe in recovery, and I celebrate the 23 one thousand thousand — 23 meg Americans in recovery.

2nd, let's take on mental wellness — especially among our children, whose lives and education have been turned upside down.

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

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

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

Every bit Frances Haugen, who is here this night with the states, has shown, we must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they're conducting on our children for profit. Folks — give thanks yous. Thank y'all for the backbone you showed.

It's fourth dimension 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's get all Americans the mental health services they demand — more than people can turn for help and full parity between concrete and mental healthcare if we treat it that way in our insurance.

Look, the third piece of that calendar is support our veterans. Veterans are the backbone and the spine of this country. They're the best of us.

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 dwelling.

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

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

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

One of those — i of those soldiers was my son, Major Fellow Biden. I don't know for certain if the burn pit that he lived almost — that his hooch was near in Iraq and, earlier than that, in Kosovo is the cause of his brain cancer and the illness of so many other troops. Simply I'm 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 Guard. Combat medic in Kosovo and Republic of iraq. Stationed near Baghdad, simply yards from burn pits the size of football game fields.

Danielle is here with usa this night. They loved going to Ohio State football games. And he loved building Legos with their daughter. Just cancer from prolonged exposure to burn pits ravaged Heath's lungs and body.

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

Through her pain, she institute purpose to need that we practise meliorate. Tonight, Danielle, we are going to do ameliorate.

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

Veterans

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

And fourth and last, let's finish cancer equally we know information technology. This is personal. This is personal to me and to Jill and to Kamala and so many of yous. So many of you take lost someone you dearest — husband, wife, son, daughter, mom, dad.

Cancer is the number-ii crusade of death in America, second simply to heart affliction.

Final calendar month, I appear the plan to supercharge the Cancer Moonshot that President Obama asked me to lead six years agone.

Cancer Moonshot

Our goal is to cutting cancer death rates by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years. And I think we tin can practice better than that: turn cancers from death sentences into treatable diseases, more back up for patients and families.

To get in that location, I call on Congress to fund what I called ARPA-H: Advanced — Advanced Research Projects Agency for Wellness. Patterned after DARPA in the Defense Section, projects that led — in DARPA — to the Cyberspace, GPS, then much more that brand our forces more safer and exist able to wage war more — with more clarity.

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

A Unity Agenda for the nation. Nosotros can do these things. It's within our power. And I don't come across a partisan edge to any one of those four things.

My boyfriend Americans — this night nosotros've gathered in a sacred space: the citadel of democracy. In this Capitol, generation subsequently generation of Americans have debated great questions amid peachy strife and have washed great things.

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

Now is the hr: our moment of responsibility, 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 constitute, our future is forged.

Well, I know this nation. Nosotros'll meet the exam, protect freedom and liberty, expand fairness and opportunity. And we volition salve democracy.

As difficult as those times have been, I'm more than optimistic near America today than I've been my whole life because I see the future that'due south within our grasp, considering I know there is simply zip beyond our camas- — our capacity.

Nosotros're the only nation on Globe that has e'er turned every crunch we've faced into an opportunity, the only nation that can be divers by a unmarried word: possibilities.

So, on this night, on our 245th yr as a nation, I've come to report on the land of the nation — the land 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 nosotros'll be stronger a year from now than we are today.

The State of the Spousal relationship

This is our moment to run into and overcome the challenges of our fourth dimension. And we will, as i people, 1 America — the United states of America.

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

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

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