Get to questions want to share a few updates with you President Biden signed two executive actions to restore and strengthen americas access to quality affordable healthcare specifically he directed agencies to reexamine rules and other policies that limit americans access to healthcare and consider additional actions for the Affordable Care act taking continue to provide access to lifesaving care for millions of americans as a result department of hhs will open healthcare. Gov for special enrollment. Every 15 to may 15 the administration only had ever six weeks this is double the length of time. Those without Health Insurance can sign up with Health Coverage too little or no cost the president rescinded the gag rule that prevents outputs of International Funding to provide abortion counseling referrals to receive your spending and directed hhs whether to resend under Title X Family Planning Program also built on the actions he has taken at the heart of the response to covid19. Second want to update you on the amendment being made to the public readiness and emergency hardness act on the covid19 response to amend the declaration with recently retired doctors and nurses to administer covid19 vaccine and permit anyone currently licensed to vaccinate in their home state and to administer shots across state lines we talked about the need not just for vaccines with activators to fight one and the more vaccinated was in the field some states have taken action to ease licensing requirements to expand the workforce make it easier across the board that will help in the efforts for the continued goals of 100 million shots and 100 days. You may have seen the us Statement National economic director of the quarter the gdp and unemployment claims and finally on the Vice President schedule doing local tv interviews meeting with editorial boards in West Virginia and arizona. With that, go ahead. I want to ask you about the killing of daniel pearl does the white house have a plan asking for extradition for trial . The United States is outraged of the pakistani those two from the acquittal of daniel rules kidnapping and murder that shocked the worlds conscience in 2000 to the decision to exonerate the other suspects is an affront to terrorism victims everywhere including in pakistan. We recognize past pakistani actions to hold the murderers accountable and we do note as of right now he is and attention under National Security authorities we call on the pakistani government to look at those options to prosecute for the brutal murder of the american citizen and journalist we are committed to securing justice for dinner prose family and holding them accountable for the heinous crimes in the state Department Also just put out a statement. With a flurry of executive orders he ran on a pledge to be up the same for all americans presented got into office he is been acting unilaterally signing record executive orders he is not met with people on capitol hill were not sure who he is talking to on capitol hill so what you say to americans who are watching all of these executive orders . Does the white house think this is the best way to make policy where the next president can come back in three years with a stroke of up and . You have a lot to unpack. First, the president of the forward a large and bold covid relief package 19 trillion that is meant to address the challenges of the American People facing in a dual crisis the country is facing from the pandemic to the economic recession as a result go that package has the support of the majority of americans according to every poor we have seen publicly released. First, unifying the country is addressing the problems American People are facing and working to reach out to democrats and republicans to do exactly that. That is what he is doing. Hes had calls the democratic and republican members of congress and when calls regularly throughout the week impact when he was inaugurated also democratic and republican mayors and governors to talk to them about what their needs are on the ground. His objective as president to deliver what he promised in the inaugural address all of the American People by focusing on addressing the issues that people are facing not just red states or blue states the crisis we are all facing and people are responding to the and executive actions also running with a commitment to take steps immediately with the pain and suffering the American People were feeling that includes overturning the detrimental harmful and immoral policies and actions of the administration. Because he said many times publicly he will not take executive action alone is what he before the number of packages that he is actively working with members of both parties to work forward on. Does he support the move toward reconciliation the democrats are talking about her is at the same idea . I would is a point of you. Those are your words. I would say these policies in the covid relief package are policies that are not democratic or republican. Everybody wants their kids to go back to school every think there should be more shots in the arms of americans. People think they should get more relief and a bridge in this period of time. So what he is saying is here is my proposal and here is how i think. Here is our economist and medical experts they can address on adjust the crisis to impact constituents across the country because have a conversation about it. At the same time he will not delay action that would help bring relief to the public and help bring access to affordable healthcare to the American People to help ensure women have access to Reproductive Health as well. Is a lot of steps hes taken that require immediate action to bring that relief immediately but also work with congress and multiple bills to do that. Democratic leaders on the hill under the reconciliation we heard Chuck Schumer say they are moving ahead with or without republicans does undermine the calls for bipartisanship . We are all very close with the reconciliation with the terminology in washington. Reconciliation is a parliamentary process to get legislation through. It is a way to get relief to the American People. The president wants us to be a bipartisan package regardless of the mechanism. They can still vote for a package even if it goes through with reconciliation. There is no blood oath. He wants is to be a bipartisan package if that is what it looks like at the end of the day. So which is the they already . I dont think thats true we refute the notion the challenges the American Public are facing urgent. People dont know how to plan for food on the table now worried if their kids can go back to school in a couple months now. Theyre worried about getting the vaccine now. Those are issues that republican elected officials a hearing, democratic officials from the constituents and we are confident people will listen to them and come together to support a bipartisan bill. Now you have taken steps to ban nonus citizens from traveling here. That goes into effect on saturday why saturday and not sooner . The testing requirements that we put in place that you noted were put in place including south africa will be put into effect new january 26. This goes into effect friday night and was put into place very quickly over the course of the week. It takes a little bit of time to the restrictions in place to work with airlines and regulatory authorities. We do that as quickly as possible. And we did that before there was a reported case we listen to health and medical experts. Given that democrats will move forward with or without support as President Biden sign a bill that only democrats voted for a . We are not quite there. That is a few steps ahead of where we are. He continues to believe this can be should be and will be a bipartisan bill to receive support from democrats and republicans in his having conversations with them listening to the leaders of both parties to assure we get to that place. But only democrats voted . We will have a conversation at that point. Given all the volatility for wall street what is the Biden Administration doing to protect the average american investor if there would be potentially a major Market Correction coming . The sec put out a statement in the last 24 hours we will refer you to that we will not have additional comment. Have you had conversations with economic officials . He has been briefed by his Economic Team i dont have anything more for that. With a broader administration looking at robin hood and other platforms to purchase stocks like game stop . We move into the sec statement. Are they working with the majority leader schumer to push the nomination . I have not spoken with the legislative team about the nomination specifically but the president has spoken about the urgency of getting his team in place to address the range of issues we are facing and i dont think thats in a different. First of all on the covid relief package in order to cut a deal what about a smaller package . There was some reporting this morning i want to take the opportunity to be Crystal Clear clear were not looking to split the package i talked to the president this morning that is not the focus or the intention and the reason is because we will not ourselves in a place where we are choosing between helping families to put food on the table and making sure kids get back to school or getting a vaccine in the arms of americans. Now at the same time what the president has conveyed to all of us and members of congress he put a puzzle out there. He of all people appreciates the back and forth and engagement an opportunity to hear from all sides on what they like and what they dont like and some have proposed things that should be visit on bigger new member of congress is a wallflower and certainly that reflects the private conversations as well. There are areas that have been some discussion can this be more targeted. President believes based on the economy and the health this is an overall package and proposal to those who need it most and happy to have a conversation about that and any components that people are coming but to make it better and improving the package and we are open for business. But we are not going to do this in a piecemeal way or pick apart a big package to the crisis we are facing. With the Biden Administration expand mandatory testing for domestic travelers here in the United States . And what other requirements can be forthcoming . We put out a couple of days ago, some specific requirements on International Travel. Have anything to preview or predict they are always evaluating how to keep the American People safe. Can you give the American People any hope the vaccine supply will stay elevated over the next couple of months . The president made an announcement two days ago about increasing the supply of vaccines to ensure we are getting as much of the supply into the hands of elected officials as we can to get vaccines into the arms of americans. He will continue to push. We will continue to push. Not just vaccine supply but it is vaccinate ors and the ability of the capacity to put the vaccine into the arms of americans and neighborhoods and also vaccine locations. We already made and announcement about increasing the vaccine supply. He will continue to push. The goal is to continue to increase in all of these areas. The main issue is supply. It is one of the issues. We will be in a place by the summer to have enough supply for the public. But that does not ensure that everybody will have a vaccine. We need to ensure we have the materials to distribute, the vaccinated is and qualified individuals to put the shots in the arms of americans. This is why it is such a Herculean Task because it requires so many components. Striking a deal with pfizer to produce 125 million doses but that will not start until the summer. And talking to Domestic Pharmaceutical Companies doing something similar more quickly . The president did invoke the defense production act were not producing shoes we are producing vaccines. We want to work very closely with the manufacturers and the companies that are the experts. Its not easy to start from scratch in a new facility. We are mindful of that. Right now we are reviewing all options but the focus is on continuing to work directly with manufacturers and facilities to get the vaccines out the door. One question on healthcare, how many people does the white house suspect will sign up during the supplemental. How many are you expecting we dont have a number two project but the reason why the president signed the executive order today is it is essential in the time of a pandemic when millions are concerned about healthcare, many still dont have access to open up the expanded window. We will have a robust Public Campaign to reach the American People, allied of levers and resources toward that part have a prediction in terms of numbers. We will not do predictions because many American People who dont have access and are not on the exchange we can reach will be our goal. So now they are monitoring the situation. There have been some concerns about the previous engagements. Are there some plans to advise the president . Just to be clear we said that treasury secretary is now confirmed. We have a broad Economic Team the sec put out a statement yesterday that i referred to. I dont think i have anything more for you on that other than to say separate from the game stop issue that the secretary of treasury is one of the world Renowned Experts on markets and economy that shouldnt be a surprise to anyone she was paid to give her perspective and advice before she came into the administration. I have a question on policy with taiwan yesterday the Chinese Military activity is a necessary response to foreign intervention and that any efforts against war. Many think beijing is testing the us with taiwan and how do you respond . The good news is my long time friend is giving a briefing today at the department of defense i would refer you to him and any comments he makes on this issue. So following up on the statement yesterday with the review of the sale to the United Arab Emirates and understand the president is open but its not for the administration but would be a strategy with the trump administration. I know there were cabinet members and colleagues debated yesterday. But as you know we recently paused some armed the sales to sure they meet but then to speak to that and cleared detail there will be an ongoing review with the range that again under the purview of the state department the secretary was confirmed earlier this week we will give him a minute to figure out his pencils and pens are but it is an important issue in one they will be reviewing soon, im sure. To Everything Else to add now that they have rejected the appeal. As i noted the other day and is clear in the readout that we issued the call with president putin he did not call back to convey his concern about the treatment of protesters and that will continue to be communicated at many levels with the russians. To question so just to follow up, and those that you lay out can you give us any sense of color . Im not in the business of reading anything the russians are doing. That i will say that this talks about the actions of the russian government and conveyed that clearly during the call recommendations that they should go back so there is a dispute between teachers and the data so it is the administration stand . First let me be absolutely clear President Biden was schools to open and stay open because obviously its very disruptive for families for kids to come in and out of school that means making sure every school can have the equipment and resources to open safely not just ruler private where the openings are happening is where a challenge in Public Schools with it on the funding from tuition smaller populations are easier to put that in place but the cdc study a no received a lot of attention was based on the area more role in wisconsin and i think what was said last night on cnn for areas that are more populated or more for traffic a lot of steps need to be put in place to make the reopening safe we are committed to do that as the president signed the executive order last week to put the safe reopening of schools requiring the department of education to provide evidencebased guidance for things like testing, small class sizes bed ppe Health Guidance went to provide that clarity from the federal government because there is a lot of confusion in Public Schools dont know what steps to take her how to ensure those decisions to be made locally but we want to give them guidance our team is working on that the cdc and Health Experts we hope you have more specific soon. So throughout the pandemic why give all americans a 1400dollar check and not that relieved the ministration is talking about . So to have the same criteria as the package that received bipartisan support in december so that 1400dollar check would go to families making approximately 150,000 per year there is a scaling up of through 300,000. There has been some questions about that. President biden and Economic Team are open to discussing that but we want to ensure that families that need relief and assistance get it and i was at a time when we saw the Economic Data today it was worse than we saw with the great recession. People are suffering millions of people out of work and a lot of on the table the challenges are real the data shows it but we also see long lines for food pantries people who are out of work and dont know they will do to make ends meet that is tangible and real the package has to be big and pulled to address that. Getting health and access to abortion well days to spend the medication Abortion Pill will be picked up in person . I have been getting questions about that ill have to talk to the health team about that specifically. A lot of viewers are asking any type of consideration of waivers for students were unmarried couples the requirement for testing. There has been a lot of coverage of this and questions these are people who are missing loved ones and family members just to restate the requirements are now lawful residents can travel under these restrictions we have been place on International Travel all the have to take part in the be departure testing and we are reviewing and assessing how students and unmarried couples can proceed with that moving forward i have nothing to preview but we are looking into that. Why those countries with high numbers like russia or india or mexico . The health and medical team takes a close look at what restrictions we need to do in place that is how we review it it is not gop led on geopolitics it was like that in the administration sometimes this is the restrictions we need to out to keep the American People safe. Is at White House Position needs to be further studied or does the white house agreed with those recommendations . The cdc has not issued the formal recommendations are requirements on how all schools across the country can open go they do reports frequently based on an area in wisconsin with interesting data. No doubt that is not reflective of every School District in community in the country. So they will be coming out with more specific guidelines for the public because schools that are much more highly populated far more kids in classrooms walking into the school to make sure there is clarity on and testing and class size days needs and public guidance that people can abide by. But their recommendation is that k12 schools should be the last to close after all the mitigation measures have been deployed we all the schools to open and the open for good. What im trying to clarify is schools and cities are dealing with different challenges this could be different than downtown. There needs to be more specific guidelines. So President Biden wants all schools to reopen in the first 100 days is that still the goal if congress does not pass this proposal what they believe the schools need to reopen . I sense of skepticism. We dont feel that. I know thats your job at one of the reasons we are so focused on the American Rescue plan getting it urgently passed through congress because we need this funding in order for schools to reopen and for them to have the support to ensure they have proper ventilation , testing, ppe it is a key component of the package and one of the reasons we will not negotiate out on negotiate out vaccine funding or Unemployment Insurance because thats a key component and we need that to ensure schools will have the resources across the country to reopen and thats exactly what the president wants to happen. Thank you. Is there a general sense of frustration given the Vaccine Distribution . And trying to lowered executive orders and if lawmakers raise concerns. Im only laughing because they are honored eight the day. In that period of time the president has signed multiple executive orders and has proposed several comprehensive bills, hes had many conversations with members of congress about the urgency to get things done and in those conversations, there is an understanding and an agreement of the urgency of addressing these issues. We a hopeful and optimistic about the opportunity and ability to work with democrats and republicans to get packages through to bring relief to the American Public. But we also recognize members of congress on our farmers. Lots of ideas and plans of you and they will bring those forward. We are hearing them we are eager to move forward as quickly as we can. We are confident we are on a rapid pace. Thank you everyone. I appreciate all of you will be in my office. We will do this again tomorrow. We will do this again tomorrow. He u. S. Capitol and the upcoming legislative agenda. This is 20 minutes. Rep. Good morning everyone