![]() ![]() ![]() Approximately 127 million stimulus payments worth around $325 billion have been sent to Americans under the American Rescue Plan, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. And millions more will be getting their money very soon," Biden said. That's real money in people's pockets bringing relief instantly, almost. On stimulus payments: "As of yesterday more than 100 million payments of $1,400 have gone into people's bank accounts.“e’re really close, and I believe in the 35 days left to go we’ll meet that goal as well,” Biden said. On reopening schools around the country: Biden cited a report out this week from the Department of Education that shows nearly half of K-8 schools are open – a step toward his goal of getting a majority of K-8 schools fully open in the first 100 days.But no other country in the world has even come close, not even close to what we are doing. On administering the Covid-19 vaccines: Biden formally said his administration has set a new goal to get 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses into arms by his 100th day in office.The President called conditions at packed migrant facilities such as the one in Donna, Texas, that houses migrant children "totally unacceptable." On the conditions at a border protection facility in Texas: "e're going to be moving a thousand of those kids out quickly. That's why I got Fort Bliss opened up. That's why I've been working from the moment this started happening to try to find additional access for children to be able to safely, not just children, but particularly children to be able to safely be housed while we follow through on the rest of what's happening," Biden said.On unaccompanied children at the border: "The idea that I'm going to say, which I would never do, if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border we're going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side, no previous administration did that either, except Trump. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it," Biden said.Biden said he wants to rebuild the immigration system, adding that the US is sending back the "vast majority" of families showing up at the border. As many people came, 28% increase in the children in the border in my administration, 31% in the last year in 2019 before the pandemic in the Trump administration. It happens every single solitary year," he said. "Truth of the matter is nothing has changed. On immigration: Biden claimed the current surge in migrants at the US southern border is not unprecedented.
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