Come Wednesday, we begin a new chapter. Those were the words from Joe Biden, less than 6 days before he becomes the 46th President of the United States. Thursday night, in an address from Wilmington, Delaware he addressed the priorities he will tackle right when he moves into the White House. He said, “We have no time to waste when it comes to getting this virus under control and building our economy back better.”
During the speech, he laid out the details of a $1.9 trillion rescue package. Here are some of his promises:
“We will finish the job of getting a total of $2000 of cash relief to people who need it the most. The $600 already appropriated is simply not enough.”
“We’re going to extend emergency nutritional assistance for 43 million children and their families enrolled in the SNAP program through the rest of this year.”
“We’ll take action to extend nationwide restrictions on evictions and foreclosures. This will provide more than 25 million Americans greater stability instead of living on the edge every single month.”
Biden: "There is real pain overwhelming the real economy. The one where people rely on paychecks, not their investments, to pay for their bills and their meals and their children's needs. You won't see this pain if your scorecard is how things are going on Wall Street." pic.twitter.com/psh718sORy
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 15, 2021
The president-elect is also sticking to his aggressive vaccine rollout plan.
“The more people we vaccinate, the faster we do it, the sooner we can save lives and put this pandemic behind us and get back to our lives and our loved ones.”
President-elect Biden says U.S. vaccination rollout "has been a dismal failure thus far," and he'll lay out a plan Friday to complete 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office
"We will have to move heaven and Earth to get more people vaccinated" https://t.co/YiYVNMBhOS pic.twitter.com/9q23RKEitB
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 15, 2021
Watch above.