would deliberately inflict this kind of pain on the american people. why? this nation has gom through too much, and come too far to let that happen. i will not let that happen, not on my watch. i will veto everything that is in there. not after all of the progress we ve made, and how far we ve come. last week, last week was a two-year anniversary of the day i was sworn in as president and at the time i was sworn in, the pandemic was raging, and the economy was reeling. millions of you were out of work. through no fault of your own. millions more kept their jobs but they saw their hours and their paychecks cut. millions upon millions of americans. hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. small businesses make up 50% of the entire economy. schools across the country were closed. teachers and first responders were laid off. families that relied on a weekly paycheck, and not their stock portfolios, to put real food on the table, it was real pain for