Donald S. Beyer, Jr.: “The U.S. is very fortunate. We have Moderna and Pfizer. The rest of the world: vaccine early and vaccinate often.”

Thank you all very much for being here. And I want to thank you for joining me in this vital conversation about the economic cost of shareholder primacy.

Far from guaranteed, the speed and strength of our economic recovery is a direct result of increased public investment.

We need to lower those costs for U.S. workers and we need to advance economic growth and competitiveness.

Thanks to the efforts of this Congress and the Biden administration, unemployment is down to 3.6 percent.