many americans could wake up this saturday morning to find desperately needed relief payments already in their bank accounts. the first batch of payments were processed friday, the same day that the american rescue plan was signed into law. now president bill bjoe biden a team plan to travel the country spreading awareness. here is jeff zeleny. help is here and we will not stop working for you. reporter: president biden celebrating his first legislative success, hailing the rescue plan as a triumph of to lift the nation from crisis. together with you, we re showing that it is possible to get big important things done. reporter: it was a rose garden victory lap. with biden soaking in his first official event there as president. to tout a law now part of his legacy. it changes the paradigm, for the first time in a long time, this bill puts working people in this nation first. not hyperbole, it is a fact. reporter: but he made clear that the law that will touch the l
challenges in implementing the plan saying once again i m quoting him it s going to require fastidious oversight to make sure there s no waste or fraud. meanwhile the cdc is saying over 100 million covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the united states. we re following the growing crisis follow new york governor andrew cuomo. our chief national affairs correspondent jeff ze lechlt ny is on the scene for us. a very cautious victory lap by the president. wolf, president biden is taking a cautious victory lap but a celebratory one as well as the $1.9 trillion spending bill is starting to make its way through the government bureaucracy, with some of those first checks arriving in the bank accounts of americans this weekend. the president also said this is a moment to show the country that government can work. help is here and we will not stop working for you. reporter: president biden celebrating his first success tonight shall hailing the american res