as somebody who has been eagerly awaiting her vaccine shot and having no idea when i would become eligible, i will tell you, i feel this personally. as the president made clear tonight, he s saying this doesn t necessarily mean all american adults are going to be vaccinated by the end of next month, by may 1st. but he is ordering all states and territories to open eligibility to all adults by no later than may 1st, which means you can get in line, which means you can start setting up your appointment, which means you can make your plans. any american adult who wants a shot will be free to sign up for one, and the president says his administration will do everything it can to make vaccine shots available to every single american who wants one. and that is just almost unbelievably good news. for all of the americans who want to get vaccinated, present company included, but also for what it says about the progress the administration feels it s making toward that ultimate goal of
having no idea when i would become eligible, i will tell you, i feel this personally. as the president made clear tonight, he s saying this doesn t necessarily mean all american adults are going to be vaccinated by the end of next month, by may 1st. but he is ordering all states and territories to open eligibility to all adults by no later than may 1st, which means you can get in line, which means you can start setting up your appointment, which means you can make your plans. any american adult who wants a shot will be free to sign up for one, and the president says his administration will do everything it can to make vaccine shots available to every single american who wants one. and that is just almost unbelievably good news. for all of the americans who want to get vaccinated, present company included, but also for what it says about the progress the administration feels it s making toward that ultimate goal of getting everybody vaccinated. and you know, also, it matters,
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out to all americans and say look, the government can work. the thing that the president has said over and over is that people doubted the fact that the package could happen. we saw infrastructure week after infrastructure week during the last administration and nothing got done and this time around, you saw a generational investment in infrastructure here and you ve also seen some republicans who did not vote for the bill already starting to try to take credit for some of the things that have come out of the bill and some of the funding that s going to be helping cities around the country. this is really president biden saying i want to make sure i take credit for this. i want people to understand what this government has done for him. there s the polling numbers, covid, omicron, the remnants of afghanistan. all these different things the president s having to contend with and he wants to tell americans, even with all of that, here s a government that s worked for you. you know, tim
to. likely a politically strategic decision with control of congress very much on the line. i think it s more than that. i think this is who he is. he ran in the democratic primary as someone who wanted to govern for all americans, who would be the president for all americans. his outreach, i think it was an interview, i don t remember with whom, he said my way to sort of get to rural america is to focus as much on curing covid in rural america as i do in congested parts of the country. this seems very much in line, it seems more profound than just a legislative marketing tour to me. any insight on what s behind where they go? based on my conversations with white house officials, there are sort of political decisions being made about where he goes. it s not i think a coincidence he was in a swing state then new hampshire and in michigan. there is this sense that the president really wants to get