The president-elect made those points quite fulsomely tonight.

We need more action, more bipartisanship, and we need to move quickly -- direct cash payments, extended unemployment insurance, rent relief, food assistance, keeping essential frontline workers on the job, aid to small businesses. These…

This plan, this American Rescue Plan that the president-elect talked about tonight, it can control the virus, produce and distribute adequate amounts of vaccine, open up our schools, provide relief from hunger and homelessness, get help to…

We've seen clearly what we face now. And I remain so optimistic about America, as optimistic as I've ever been. We have everything we need, but the will must be demonstrated.

We need about $400 billion in funding from Congress to make all of what I just said happen.

In this moment of crisis, with interest rates at historic lows, we cannot afford inaction. It's not just as smart fiscal investments, including deficit spending are more urgent than ever, it's that the return on these investments in jobs…

this idea of having vaccination fairs and community outreach clinics.

The vaccine rollout in the United States has been a dismal failure thus far. Tomorrow, I will lay out our vaccination plan to correct course and meet our goal of 100 million shots at the end of my first 100 days as President.

If we don't act now, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months, as the pandemic rages on.

Joe Biden is calling for billions of dollars, roughly $200 billion to create a national vaccine program.

We need to provide equitable access to healthcare and vaccines for all Americans.

We need to make sure that the vaccine distribution process is transparent and fair.

Our plan will reduce poverty in the black community by one-third and reduce poverty in the Hispanic community by almost 40 percent.

this will be on the most challenging operational efforts we have ever undertaken as a nation. We'll have to move heaven and earth to get more people vaccinated, to create more places for them to get vaccinated, to mobilize more medical…

It's been 343 days since the virus tragically that has ravaged our nation tragically claimed its first life.

We will also do everything we can to keep our educators and students safe, to safely reopen a majority of our K-8 schools by the end of the first 100 days.

When America acts as one, there's never been a single thing we've been unable to do.

We need to make sure that the vaccine is distributed equitably and efficiently.

The only way we can do it is to come together, to come together as fellow Americans, as neighbors, as a United States of America.

We have to act, and we have to act now.

Our Rescue Plan will provide emergency funding to keep these essential workers on the job and maintain essential services.

$2,000 is going to go a long way to ease that pain.

There should be a national minimum wage of $15 an hour.

Our Rescue Plan starts aggressively in order to speed up our national COVID-19 response.

We not only have an economic imperative to act now. I believe we have a moral obligation.