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students if that's okay with you all last week we immediately got to work to contain the pandemic and deliver economic relief to millions of americans who need it the most and today we're getting to work to rebuild the backbone of america manufacturing unions the middle class it's based on a simple premise that will reward work not wealth in this country and the key plank of ensuring the future will be made in america i've long said that i don't accept the defeatist view that the forces of automation and globalization can't keep can keep can keep union jobs from growing here in america we can create more of them not fewer of them i don't buy for one second the uh that the vitality american manufacturing is a thing of the past american manufacturing was the arsenal democracy in world war ii and it must be part of the engine of american prosperity now that means we're going to use taxpayers money to rebuild america we'll buy american products and support american jobs union jobs for example the federal government every year spends approximately 600 billion dollars in government procurement to keep the country going safe and secure and there's a law that's been in the books for almost a century now to make sure that that money was spent taxpayers dollars for procurement is support spent to support american jobs and american businesses but the previous administration didn't take it seriously enough federal agencies waived the buy american requirement without much pushback at all big corporations and special interests have long fought for loopholes to redirect american taxpayers dollars to foreign companies for the products are being being made the result tens of billions of american taxpayers dollars supporting foreign jobs in foreign industries in 1918 excuse me in 2018 alone the department spent three billion dollars the defense department on foreign construction contracts leaving american steel and iron out in the cold it spent nearly 300 million in foreign engines and on vehicles instead of buying american vehicles and engines from american companies putting americans to work under the previous administration the federal government contract awarded directly to foreign companies went up 30 percent that is going to change on our watch today i'm taking the first steps in my larger build back better recovery plan that invest in american workers unions and businesses up and down the supply chain and i know the previous president's entered office by promising to buy america and instituting the buy american policy but here's why this is different and not the same i'll be signing an executive order in just a moment tightening the existing bi-american policies and go further we're setting clear directives and clear explanations we're going to go to the core issue with a centralized coordinated effort look today i'm creating a director of made in america at the white house office of managing budget who will oversee our all of government made in america initiative that starts with stopping federal agencies from waiving buying america by american requirements with impunity has been going on if an agency wants to issue a waiver to say we're not going to buy an american product as part of this project we're going to buy a foreign product they have to come to the white house and explain it to us we're going to require that waivers be publicly posted that is or someone was always seeking a waiver to build this particular vehicle or facility and it's going to buy the following foreign parts that waiver the request for it's going to be posted then we'll work with small american manufacturers and businesses to give them a shot to raise their hand and say yeah i can do that here in my shop in my town it's about as have you heard me say before i used to have a friend who was a great athlete he said you got to know how to know these small businesses don't even know they can compete for making the product that is attempting to be waived and not being able to be bought abroad and i'm directing the office of managing a budget to review waivers to make sure they are only used in very limited circumstances for example when there's an overwhelming national security humanitarian or emergency need here in america this hasn't happened before it will happen now here's what else we're going to be doing under the buildback better recovery plan we'll invest hundreds of billions of dollars in buying american products and materials to modernize our infrastructure and our competitive strength will increase in a competitive world that means millions of good paying jobs using american-made steel and technology to rebuild our roads our bridges our ports and to make them more climate resilient as well as make them able to move faster and cheaper and cleaner to transport american-made goods across the country and around the world making us more competitive it also means replenishing our stockpiles to enhance our national security as this pandemic is made clear we can never again be in a position we have to rely on a foreign country that doesn't share our interest in order to protect our people during a national emergency we need to make our own protective equipment essential products and supplies and we'll work with our allies to make sure they have resilient supply chains as well we'll also make historic investments in research and development hundreds of billions of dollars to sharpen america's innovative edge in markets where global leadership is up for grabs markets like battery technology artificial intelligence biotechnology clean energy the federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles which we're going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in america by american workers creating millions of jobs a million auto worker jobs in clean energy and vehicles that are net zero emissions and together this will be the largest mobilization of public investment in procurement infrastructure and r d since world war ii and with the executive order i'll be signing today we'll increase by american requirements for the for these kinds of projects and improve the way we measure domestic content requirements for example right now if you manufacture a vehicle for the federal government you need to show that at least 50 percent of the components of that vehicle were made in america but because of loopholes that have been expanded over time you can count the least valuable possible parts as part of that 50 to say made in america while the most valuable parts the engines the steel the glass the manufacture are manufactured abroad so basically but basically we're batting zero for two the content threshold of 50 aren't high enough and the way we measure the content doesn't account for us jobs and economic activity we're going to change that as well the executive action i'm signing today will not only require the companies make more of their components in america but that the value of those components is contributing to our economy measured by things like a number of american jobs created and or supported at the same time we'll be committed to working with our trading partners to modernize international trade rules including those relating to government procurement to make sure we can use we can all use our taxpayer dollars to spur investment that promotes growth and resilient supply chains and here's what else the action does when we buy america will buy from all of america that includes communities that have historically been left out of gun procurement black brown native americans small businesses and entrepreneurs in every region of the country we will use a national network of manufacturers called the manufacturing extension partnership that's in all 50 states in puerto rico to help government agency connect with new domestic suppliers across the country this is a critical piece of building our economy back better and including everyone in the deal this time especially small businesses that are badly hurting in this economy the executive action i'm taking also reiterates my strong support for the jones act and american vessels you know and our ports especially those important for america's clean energy future and the development of offshore renewable energy i'll close with this the reason we need to do this is america can't sit on the sidelines in the race for the future our competitors aren't waiting to ensure the future is made in america we need to win not just the jobs of today but the jobs and industries of tomorrow and we know that the middle class built this country and we also know unions built the middle class so let's invest in them once again i know we're ready despite all the all we're facing i've never been more optimistic about the future america than i am today given even just half a chance the american people the american workers has never ever let the country down imagine if we give them a full chance that's what we're going to do i'll stop here and sign the executive order then come back and take some of your questions this executive order is entitled ensuring the future is made in america by american all american workers there you go and i'll be happy to take your questions thank you mr president uh jonathan will be with the associated press uh two two topics if if i may uh the first you have made reopening schools a central part of your first 100 days agenda and you've long portrayed yourself as an ally to teachers and unions right now the chicago teachers union has refused they defied an order to return to in-person classing for in-person classrooms because of a lack of vaccinations do you believe sir that teachers should return to schools now i believe we should make school classrooms safe and secure for the students for the teachers and for the the help that's in those schools maintaining the facilities we need new ventilation systems in those schools we need testing for people coming in and out of the classes we need testing for teachers as well as students and we need the capacity the capacity to know that in fact the the sick of the circumstance in the school is safe and secure for everyone for example there's no reason why the clear guidance will be that every school should be thoroughly sanitized from the from the laboratories to the hallways and so this is about making and none of the school districts that i'm aware of there may be some public school districts have insisted that all those pieces be in place and i might add it's the same kind of thing i hope we can do with small businesses and businesses making sure they have the capacity to test their workers when they come in to make sure they have plastic dividers in in and be between their booths and their in their restaurants etc to make sure they can sanitize so it's not so much about the idea teachers aren't going to work the teachers i know they want to work they just want to work in a safe environment and as safe because we can rationally make it and we can do that and we should be able to open up every every school kindergarten through eighth grade if in fact we administer these tests and it'll have the added advantage i might add of putting millions of people back to work all those mothers and fathers that are home taking care of their children rather than go to work even when they can work they're not able to do it unless they have the luxury of working distance wise like many of us do they're not able to do it and so this is about generating economic growth overall as well thank you mr president i'm alex alper from reuters i wanted to ask a question about navalny if you are considering imposing sanctions on any of the individuals involved in his attempted poisoning and or his arrest when he returned from germany and if not is that related to your concerns about it potentially derailing a new start extension thank you i find that we can both operate in the mutual self-interest of our countries as a new start agreement and make it clear to russia that we are we are very concerned about their behavior whether it's navalny whether it's the solar winds or whether it's reports of bounties on the heads of of americans in afghanistan i've asked the agencies in question to do a thorough a thorough read for me on every one of those issues to update me precisely where they are and i will not hesitate to raise those issues with the russians a question about your covid relief deal on friday you said the nation isn't a national emergency we should act like it given that given the scale and the severity of the need how long are you willing to get sufficient republican support before you would green light democrat attempts to use reconciliation for instance to pass that bill well look um the decision on reconciliation will be won made by the leaders of the house and the senate but here's the deal i have been doing legislative negotiations for a large part of my life i know how the system works and what i'm not can't guarantee anything at all but i can say that what i'm going to be doing and we've already begun is making it clear to the leadership and the house and the senate as well as the the uh the the group of 16 uh group bipartisan group as well as republican individuals who have an interest in the issues that are in that my package and saying here's what i'm doing here's why i want to do it here's why i think we need to do it and what kind of support can or can't you give to that and then we go on to the way in which we deal with legislation all the time you know we we didn't have any votes for the recovery package when barack and i came into office we were short three votes we didn't know we had the votes until the day of the uh the day of the uh of the um bringing it up and uh but here's the deal you know it's interesting and i i know you ask a lot of these questions you know the answers but you have to where to help educate the public as well i'm not suggesting you don't know what i'm about to say no one wants to give up on their position until there's no other alternative they have to make a decision that they don't do [Music] what they don't support what is being proposed or they insist on what they have or they let it all go away fall down i think we're far from that point right now the decision to use reconciliation will depend upon how these negotiations going let me make clear about negotiations i've always believed part of negotiation on the part of a president and or a chairman of a committee trying to get a major piece of legislation passed is about consultation it's not enough for me just to come up to you and say i like this i expect you to support it i want to explain to you why i think it's so important in this package that we have to provide for money for additional vaccines why i think it's so important why we provide for money to extend unemployment benefits why i think it's so important that we provide money to provide for the ability of people not to be thrown out of their apartments uh during this pandemic because they can't afford their rent and to make the case to you why i think and what i think the priorities within this piece of we think the priorities are i apologize were we within this legislation and i don't expect we'll know whether we have an agreement and to what extent the entire package will be able to pass or not pass until we get right down to the very end of this process which would be probably in a couple weeks but the point is this is just the process beginning thank you mr president annie linski with the washington post i wanted to ask you a little bit about one of the sort of major themes of your campaign and how you sort of intend to measure and enact it and that is the idea of of unity if you could talk a little bit about what you see unity as being there are some people who are defining it as being bipartisan others are saying it is what most of the people in the country defined by some poll might believe um or any sort of number or perhaps it's 50 plus 1 or 50 plus 2 or 75 percent so given that it is such a key part of your message and your promise can you talk and reflect a little bit more about what is unity when you see it and has you define it i think it makes up several of the issues the points you made one is unity requires you to take away eliminate the vitriol make anything that you disagree with about the other person's personality or their lack of integrity or they're not decent legislators and the like so we have to get rid of that and i think that's already beginning to change but god knows where things go number one unity also is trying to reflect what the majority of the american people democrat republican independent think is within the fulcrum of what needs to be done to make their lives and the lives of americans better for example if you look at the data and i'm not claiming the polling data to be exact but if you look at the data you have i think it's i hope i'm saying that i guess great you may correct me if i get the number wrong i think it's 57 58 of the american people including republicans democrats and independents think that we have to do something about the covent vaccine we have to do something about making sure that people who are be hurting badly can't eat don't have food are in a position where they're about to thrown out of their apartments etc being able to have an opportunity to get a job that they all think we should be acting we should be doing more unity also is trying to get at at a minimum if you pass a piece of legislation that breaks down on party lines but it gets passed it doesn't mean there wasn't unity it just means it wasn't bipartisan i prefer these things to be bipartisan because i'm trying to generate some consensus and take sort of the uh how can i say it the vitriol out of all of this because i'm confident i'm confident from my discussions there are a number of republicans who know we have to do something about food insecurity for people in this pandemic i'm confident they know we have to do something about figuring out how to get children back in school and there's there's easy ways to deal with this one if your anti-union can say it's all because of teachers if you want to make a case though that that it's complicated you say well what do you have to do to make it safe to get in those schools now we're going to have arguments for example you know i propose that we because it was bipartisan i thought it would increase the prospects of passage the additional fourteen hundred dollars in direct cash payment folks well there's legitimate reason for people to say do you have the lines drawn the exact right way should it go to anybody making over x number of dollars or why i'm hoping to negotiate those things that's all i picked it because i thought it was rational reasonable and it had overwhelming bipartisan support in the house when it passed but this is all a bit of a moving target in in terms of the precision with which this goes you're asking about unity 51 votes bipartisan cetera um the other piece of this is that the one thing that gives me hope uh that we're not only going to sort of stay away from the ad hominem attacks on on one another is that there is an overwhelming consensus among the major economists at home and in the world that the way to avoid a deeper deeper deeper recession moving in the direction of losing our competitive capacity is to spend money now doing from from from across the board every major institution has said if we don't invest now we're going to lose so much altitude in terms of our employment base and our economic growth it's going to be harder to re-establish it we can afford to do it now as a matter of fact the i think the response has been we can't afford not to invest now we can't afford to fail to invest now and i think there's a growing realization of that on the part of all but some very very uh hard-edged partisans maybe on both sides but i think there is a growing consensus whether we get it all done exactly the way i want it remains to be seen but i'm confident that we can work our way through we have to work our way through because as i've said a hundred times there is no ability in a democracy for it to function without the ability to reach consensus other otherwise just becomes executive fiat or battleground issues that are get us virtually nowhere i i don't want to hold the my colleague may know the vice president but you know i think there were very few debates on the senate floor of the whole last year on almost any issue well that benefits no one it doesn't inform anybody it doesn't allow the public to make judgments about who's they think is right or wrong so i am i am optimistic that it may take some time but over the year the way if we treat each other with respect and we're going to argue like hell i'm confident that believe me i know that i've been there but i think we can do it in a way that we can get things done for the american people josh i don't trust you with a mic i don't know that's fine i wouldn't either thank you mr president i appreciate you taking the questions you mentioned just now that you might know in a couple of weeks can i ask whether it's more important for you to get something passed in a short time frame like that or would you be willing to wait longer to get more bipartisan support and might i also ask that one of the pillars is the vaccine funding when do you think any american who wants to get the shot will be able to get the shot well uh i'll try to answer three parts your question as i heard them one time is of the essence time is of the essence and i must tell you i'm reluctant to cherry pick and take out one or two items here and then have to go through it again because these all are kind of they they go sort of hand and glove each of these issues number one number two we are optimistic that we will have enough vaccine and in very short order we as you know we came in office without knowledge of how much vaccine was helped being held in the banks or available now that we're here we've been around a week or so we now have that and we've gotten commitments from some of the producers that they will in fact produce more vaccine in a relatively short period of time and then continue that down the road so i'm quite confident that we will be in a position within the next three weeks or so to be vaccinating people at the range of uh of of a million a day or an excess of that that is my i promised that we would get at least a uh a 100 million vaccinations that's not people because sometimes you need more than one shot the vaccination but a hundred thousand a hundred million shots in people's arms of the vaccine i think with the grace of god and the good will of neighbor and the crick not rising as the old saying goes i think we may be able to get that to 150 1.5 million a day rather than 1 million a day but we have to meet that goal of a million a day and everything points that we're going to have a the enough vaccine b enough syringes and all the paraphernalia needed to store keep inject move into your arm the vaccine three a number of vaccinators people administering the vaccine which is not an easy task of those who have those those facilities like the nursing homes and hospitals they have people who do it but they don't have the capacity to do everyone and so i think we're going to have where we're leaning hard on in the areas where we produce more vaccinators we feel confident we can do that and thirdly it's really important that we have the fora the place the facility the circumstance where people can show up stand in line and get their vaccine without having to stand in line for eight hours being able to pick up the phone call the pharmacy and get your name on the list etc all those mechanical things are really they sound simple but they're all consequential we're trying to get out a minimum of 100 million vaccinations in 100 days and move in the direction where we are well beyond that in the next hundred days so we can get to the point where we reach herd immunity in the country of over 300 million people does that answer your question date or roughly when do you think anyone who wants one would be able to get it in the summer oh i know i i think it'll be this spring i think we'll be able to do that this spring and uh but it's going to be a logistical uh challenge that exceeds anything we've ever tried in this country but i think we can do that i feel confident that by summer we're going to be well on our way to heading toward herd immunity and increasing the access for people who aren't on the first on the list all the way going down to uh children and how we deal with that but i i feel good about where we're going and i think we can get it done [Music] i know he always asks me tough questions and he always has an edge to them but i like him anyway so go ahead and ask the answer to ask the question thank you mr president uh so you just said that you think within three weeks or so we'll be at the point where there are a million vaccines per day but it seems like i think we'll get there before that i said i hope i misspoke i hope we'll be able to increase as we go around to get to the million five a day that's my ex i hope and then my the follow-up to that would be i now that you're president and you're saying there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months what happened to two months ago when you were talking declaratively about i am going to shut down the virus well i'm going to shut down the virus but not i never said i'd do it in two months i said it took a long time to get here it's going to take a long time to beat it and so we have millions of people out there who are who have the virus we're just for the first day i think correct me if i'm wrong i've been doing other things this morning speaking with foreign leaders but one of the things i think this is one of the first days that the numbers actually come down the number of deaths and the number on a daily basis and the number of hospitalizations etc it's going to take time it's going to take a heck of a lot of time and we still have as dr fauci constantly points out it's one thing when we have mass how can i say it politely mass disregard of the warnings about not wearing masks and wearing masks and and social distancing and failure to social distance and people getting together on holidays and ways that weren't recommended etc we see first thing that happens is we see the the number of infections go up then you see the hospitalizations go up then you see the deaths go up and so we're we're in this for a while i mean we're what are we now about 410 000 deaths and there's going to be more the prediction as i said from the very beginning to getting here as after being sworn in was the predictions were we're going to see somewhere between a total of six hundred thousand and six hundred and sixty thousand deaths before we begin to turn the corner in a major way so and again remember the vaccine most of the people taking the vaccine or vast significant number require two shots and they are average of three weeks apart and it takes time for it to be sure that you're you get to that 95 assurance rate and so it's beginning to move but i'm confident we will beat this we will beat this but we're still going to be talking about this in the summer we're still going to be dealing with this issue in the early fall and last point i'll make and i know you're tired to hear me saying it particularly you may be tired of me saying it and that is that if we wear masks between now and the end of april the experts tell us we can save 50 000 lives fifty thousand people otherwise would die the