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THE VICE PRESIDENT: Greetings, everybody. Greetings and Joyful Ladies’s Historical past Month. (Applause.)
To our unimaginable President, Joe Biden, who, after all, everyone knows as a tireless fighter for the protection and wellbeing of girls. To our First Woman, Dr. Jill Biden, who’s a longstanding, lifelong champion for ladies’s well being and ladies’s well being analysis. To the primary Second Gentleman of the USA, my husband, Doug Emhoff — (applause) — who’s been a strong advocate for gender fairness. And to the members of our administration and all of the extraordinary leaders. And I’m going to come back to Maria later. (Laughter.) It’s an honor to be with all of you.
So, this month, and each month, we honor the ladies who formed our nation and our world via their imaginative and prescient, braveness, dedication, and unimaginable ability, and upon whose broad shoulders all of us stand.
So, as a lot of you understand, my mom was a scientist. And when she started her profession, solely 7 % of science and engineering PhD graduates had been girls — and even fewer, after all, had been girls of coloration.
My mom had two objectives in her life: to lift her two daughters — my sister, Maya, and me — and to finish breast most cancers.
And due to the truth that our mom by no means requested anybody permission to pursue her goals, inside one technology, I stand earlier than you as the primary girl Vice President of the USA. (Applause.)
Thanks. (Applause.) (Laughs.) Thanks. Thanks, thanks. Thanks.
And as Vice President, I’ve traveled to twenty nations in each hemisphere on the earth. And I imagine the measure of the energy of a democracy is measured primarily based on the standing of its girls. (Applause.)
President Joe Biden and I, then, have been very intentional — and he’s been a rare chief of our nation — in making certain that we do all that we will to elevate up the standing of the ladies of our nation, together with their financial standing, understanding, after all, that once you elevate the financial standing of girls, households profit, communities profit, and all of society advantages. (Applause.)
And so, with that data, we now have taken on points like pupil mortgage debt, understanding girls carry almost two thirds of all pupil mortgage debt — two thirds. And we now have cancelled almost $138 billion in pupil mortgage debt — (applause) — for nearly 4 million People and counting, a median of greater than $30,000 per particular person. And for public servants, together with our lecturers, of whom greater than 70 % are girls — (applause) —
THE FIRST LADY: (Inaudible.)
THE VICE PRESIDENT: — (laughs) — and one quarter of this stage — (laughter). And for individuals who are in public service, like our lecturers, we now have forgiven a median of over $60,000 in pupil mortgage debt. (Applause.)
To elevate up the financial standing of girls, we now have additionally invested in girls entrepreneurs and small-business homeowners.
Throughout our nation, tens of millions of girls wish to begin or develop a enterprise however don’t essentially have entry to the capital that permits them to do this. So, constructing on work that I did with a lot of you in the USA Senate and below the management of our President, we now have now invested billions of {dollars} to develop entry to capital for ladies entrepreneurs.
To elevate up the standing of girls — (applause) — we now have lowered the price of healthcare, specifically, the fee — (applause) — specifically, the price of insulin for our seniors. What lots of the leaders right here know is {that a} fifth — one fifth — of girls over the age of 65 have diabetes and much too many have needed to make the selection between both having the ability to afford to fill their prescription or fill their fridge.
We additionally know seniors who’re girls are 80 % extra prone to reside in poverty, so the President and I and our administration capped the price of insulin for our seniors at $35 a month. (Applause.)
However at the same time as we elevate up the ladies and all individuals of our nation, there are those that are intent on dragging us backward.
At this second, in states throughout our nation, we’re witnessing a full-on assault towards hard-fought, hard-won freedoms and rights, together with the best of girls to make choices about their very own physique and never have their authorities inform them what to do. (Applause.)
In the present day, in America, one in three girls of reproductive age reside in a state with an abortion ban.
Since Roe was overturned, I’ve met girls who’ve had miscarriages in bogs as a result of they had been refused care, girls who went to an emergency room to obtain care and had been rejected as a result of the healthcare suppliers there thought they’d be sued and doubtlessly despatched to jail in the event that they administered care. And it was solely when she developed sepsis that she obtained care.
Simply final week, I visited a clinic in Minnesota, the place I met with medical professionals — brave and devoted girls who present important healthcare and who see, like all of us do, clinics throughout our nation, which have been closing and compelled to shut, leaving tens of millions of girls with out entry to important, on a regular basis, lifesaving care.
So, in conclusion, I’ll simply say this. There’s a lot at stake on this second.
And we every face a query: What sort of nation will we wish to reside in? Can we wish to reside in a rustic of liberty, freedom, and rule of regulation or a rustic of dysfunction, worry, and hate?
Every of us has the facility to reply that query with our toes, with our voice, and with our vote. (Applause.)
So, allow us to proceed — allow us to proceed to struggle for our freedoms. And as we all know from our historical past, after we struggle, we win. (Applause.) There we’re.
And now it’s my nice honor to introduce somebody that I’ve identified for a lot of, a few years, who’s a rare chief in each approach and has accomplished a lot for the ladies of America and for the ladies of my residence state of California, and a buddy to all of us, the nice Maria Shriver. (Applause.)
MS. SHRIVER: Thanks, Madam Vice President. As she simply informed me, that stands for “MVP.” (Laughter.) I like that. I like that.
Mr. President, Dr. Biden, thanks a lot for inviting me right here at this time. And all of you. I’d wish to inform you to take a seat, however there’s no chairs. (Laughter.) However I — I wish to say how extraordinary it’s to see all of you, to see your faces, to look at you hearken to the Vice President, to see the enjoyment in your faces, to be with you all right here to have fun girls’s historical past on this extraordinary historic residence.
You may simply shut your eyes and picture the historical past that has been made right here. You may see it on the partitions. You may see it in every single place. You may really feel it once you stroll in.
However at this time — at this time is a day to maintain your eyes extensive open, since you, my mates, are about to look at historical past get made.
For the primary time ever in our nation, a president — that man proper there — (laughter and applause) — he’s going to signal an govt order that may rework the best way our federal authorities offers with girls’s well being.
This govt order will direct probably the most complete set of govt actions ever taken to make sure that girls’s well being will get built-in and prioritized throughout all federal companies.
It should provoke new analysis on a variety of matters and assist forestall, diagnose, and deal with girls’s well being circumstances as soon as and for all. (Applause.)
I additionally wager — and I’m not even a betting girl, however I’ll guess at this time that that is the primary time a President of the USA has ever signed an govt order that mentions the phrases “menopause” and — (laughter and applause) — and “girls’s” — and “girls’s midlife well being” in it.
With the stroke of his pen, girls will get the solutions and the care they’ve lengthy sought and so they so rightly deserve. (Applause.)
Within the time since I first sat within the First Woman’s workplace final April speaking concerning the want for a brand new complete plan round girls’s well being analysis, this White Home, Jen Klein, Dr. Mazure, Secretary Becerra, the whole White Home, girls of all ages, races, religions, and all political backgrounds, they got here collectively and so they have reworked — they’ve coordinated a revolution that may rework look after the 165 million American girls on this nation — girls of all ages, all races, all ethnicities, and all political backgrounds.
This President has additionally referred to as on Congress to make a daring, large, courageous funding of $12 billion. (Applause.) Take into consideration that.
I keep in mind saying to the First Woman, “We have to get a minimum of a billion {dollars}.” (Laughter.) After which, she stated, “How’s 12?” I’m like, “That’s good. I’ll take it.” (Laughter.) However he referred to as for $12 billion {dollars} — take into consideration that — in new funding for ladies’s well being analysis. (Applause.)
That is a rare instance of presidency working rapidly and dealing for individuals who have left behind.
Dr. Biden, you deserve to face so proud on this second. (Applause.) It’s true.
She took this mission up the flagpole, via the halls of presidency, into the Oval Workplace, and reworked the best way authorities sees us. (The President makes the signal of the cross.) (Laughter.) She and her husband have launched a whole new period for ladies’s well being analysis.
That is an enterprise that would solely be put right into a movement by a president who respects girls — (applause) — by a person who sees girls, who understands girls, and who needs the most effective for ladies, who needs us all to realize our highest potential.
Not too way back, I used to be requested, “Maria, why do we want girls’s well being analysis? Why does this matter?” I used to be like, “Let me inform you.” (Laughter.)
It issues as a result of girls don’t, nor do their docs, have the mandatory analysis or information to make knowledgeable choices. It issues as a result of girls are sicker than they’ve ever been, and nobody is aware of why. It issues as a result of girls make up two thirds of these with Alzheimer’s and nobody is aware of why that’s.
We make up 80 % of these with autoimmune ailments, the vast majority of these with MS. Nobody is aware of why that’s.
Black and brown girls usually tend to develop endometriosis and face pregnancy-related problems, and we don’t have the analysis to inform them what to do about it.
This issues as a result of when girls ask questions, they’ll’t get solutions as a result of the vast majority of the analysis that’s been accomplished on this nation has solely been accomplished on males. Many of the medicines girls take have solely been examined on males.
That’s not proper, that’s not simply, and it’s going to alter. (Applause.)
So, now that the President has accomplished his job, we now have to do ours. We have now to get Congress to approve the $12 billion funding this President has referred to as for to implement this daring imaginative and prescient. So each girl, each philanthropist, each innovator, each advocate, each analysis, and each instigator on this room and out of this room must get in on this and be part of us on this huge enterprise.
And make no mistake, this can be a huge enterprise. However as these of you who’re gathered on this room know very nicely, girls have by no means shied away from huge undertakings. We have now modified historical past over and over. And guess what? We get to do it yet another time. (Applause.)
, at this time after I walked in right here with my son, Christopher, and my brothers, Timmy and Mark — and Mark is the one which acquired me within the door, so I’ve to thank him — (laughter) — I couldn’t assist however consider my — our mom, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. (Applause.)
Our mom spent lots of time on this home, pressuring her brother, President John F. Kennedy, to make adjustments for households who had kids with mental disabilities. She pressured him to know that it mattered whether or not they had been included in analysis and whether or not they had been included in all areas of life.
She acquired to alter historical past as a result of he listened. She was a pressure of nature. However she was additionally a girl who struggled her whole life and our whole lives together with her well being.
She had abdomen points. She had intestine points. She had sleep points. And each physician she went via — went to — and she or he traveled throughout this nation visiting docs, attempting to get assist, attempting to get solutions. She couldn’t get any solutions as a result of they informed her, “We don’t have any solutions for you.”
In all places she went, they informed her to chill out. (Laughter.) They informed her that possibly she was below stress, that possibly it was in her head. That didn’t go over nicely. (Laughter.) They gave her medicines that made it so she couldn’t sleep, that she couldn’t eat.
She ended up in a cycle that so many ladies discover themselves in. As an alternative of getting higher, she simply saved getting worse. Her wants had been dismissed time and time once more. And she or he was the sister of the President of the USA.
So, think about what it’s like for tens of millions of girls who don’t have any connections, who don’t have any assist, who can’t even get day without work for work to go to a physician.
The analysis and solutions and the hope they want will now be on the best way due to this man. Think about how lengthy this has taken for us to get to this second. Think about what it has taken for us to result in this transformative change.
Ladies of America, that is our moonshot. I name it “the Minerva Problem.” (Laughter.) It’s approach greater than any one among us standing right here or any one among us listening out within the nation.
We have to come collectively to deliver this $12 billion residence. If we wish our youngsters, our sisters, our moms, and our grandmothers to have the ability to maintain the world upon their shoulders, which they’re already doing, we owe them our greatest efforts and we owe them the most effective analysis that we will.
So, let’s come collectively and do that for each single girl who has felt her well being considerations have been dismissed, for each single girl who has been informed to chill out, for each single girl who has been informed, “That is in your head. You don’t really feel what you inform me you’re feeling.” God forbid.
In the present day, we be part of forces and we start anew. We start collectively.
With this moonshot and by working collectively, we will lastly singl- — sign to girls of all ages that, in the end, we actually do love them and worth them to the moon and again.
Now — (applause) — now it’s my nice honor to introduce the girl who with out none of this — none of this could be potential with out her — with out her means to take this up the flagpole, with out her persistence, and with out her ardour, my nice buddy, Dr. Jill Biden. (Applause.)
THE FIRST LADY: Quote, “When you don’t have an concept that materializes and adjustments an individual’s life, then what have you ever acquired? You’ve got speak, analysis, phone calls, conferences, however you don’t have a change in the neighborhood,” finish quote. Eunice Kennedy Shriver. (Applause.)
Maria, you reside your mom’s phrases purely, lovingly, and relentlessly. (Laughter.)
Thanks on your life’s work and for being a tremendous associate on this effort. Thanks. (Applause.)
So, good morning.
AUDIENCE: Good morning.
THE FIRST LADY: Within the early Nineteen Seventies, researchers in the USA studied estrogen’s impact in stopping coronary heart assaults. You see, it was noticed that ladies who had gone via menopause — due to this fact, who had decrease ranges of estrogen — had been prone to have coronary heart assaults. So, a examine was performed asking whether or not estrogen prevents coronary heart assaults. Eight thousand 300 and forty-one individuals had been chosen for that examine. All of them had been males. (Laughter.)
That is how issues had been accomplished. Despite the fact that girls are half the inhabitants, girls’s well being analysis has been underfunded and understudied. Too a lot of our medicines, therapies, and medical faculty textbooks are primarily based on males and their our bodies.
However that ends at this time. (Applause.)
Lastly, girls will get the healthcare we deserve. In just some moments, my husband, President Biden — (applause) — (laughs) — see, Joe, now I simply should say your identify and — (laughter) — will signal probably the most complete govt — govt order in historical past to advance analysis on girls’s well being.
So, on behalf of all of us, thanks, Joe. (Applause.)
When you ask any girl in America about her healthcare, she in all probability has a narrative to inform. You all know her. She’s the girl who will get debilitating migraines however doesn’t know why and might’t discover therapy choices that work for her. She’s the girl going via menopause who visits her physician and leaves with extra questions than solutions, though half the nation will undergo menopause in some unspecified time in the future of their lives.
She’s the girl whose coronary heart assault isn’t acknowledged as a result of her signs don’t seem like a person’s, at the same time as coronary heart illness is the main reason for dying amongst girls.
So many people and so lots of the girls in our lives endure from well being circumstances for which we merely don’t have the solutions or the options.
Give it some thought. You might need the most effective docs or the most effective insurance coverage, however in relation to Alzheimer’s, endiom- — endimet — endio- —
AUDIENCE: Endometriosis.
THE FIRST LADY: Thanks. (Laughs.) And I’m an English trainer. (Laughter.)
— IBS, or disruptive menopausal signs, is that sufficient? No. We merely don’t know sufficient about the right way to forestall, detect, or deal with the circumstances that have an effect on girls uniquely, disproportionately, or otherwise.
And that’s the results of a selection, as a result of, for many years, “enterprise as standard” has meant understudying and underfunding analysis on girls’s well being. Your president believes that that is unacceptable. (Applause.)
When Maria introduced this challenge to me and Joe lower than a 12 months in the past, he knew it might make an actual distinction. And that’s what Joe does greatest. He takes motion and rapidly. Joe is the primary president to make investing in girls’s well being analysis — investing in your well being, in our well being — a high precedence for the White Home. (Applause.)
It’s no secret that Joe’s accomplishments on healthcare are historic. You heard about this — his successes already: lowering healthcare premiums and prescription drug prices; safety — defending tens of millions of sufferers from shock medical payments and junk charges; and getting extra People coated by insurance coverage.
But it surely’s essential that you understand what Joe is doing via this White Home Initiative on Ladies’s Well being Analysis is completely different and with out precedent. He’s investing sources and truly understanding the scientific foundation of girls’s well being circumstances, which is able to permit researchers, docs, and trade to search out new methods to stop, detect, and deal with girls’s well being. (Applause.) (Laughs.)
Because of Joe’s expertise and imaginative and prescient, he’s approaching this downside otherwise too. As President, Joe created ARPA-H, a brand new healthcare company that pursues breakthroughs in well being analysis at lightning pace.
Just some weeks in the past, ARPA-H launched its first-ever dash for ladies’s well being, placing $100 million into girls’s well being analysis and improvement. (Applause.)
And through his State of the Union Deal with, Joe referred to as on Congress to speculate $12 billion into girls’s well being and analysis, giving researchers the funding wanted to make the sorts of discoveries that may change every thing. And he’s calling, similar to Maria did, on entrepreneurs, buyers, non-public industries, and philanthropists to do their half, as a result of it’s going to take all of us.
Joe is combating to lastly ship the reply that tens of millions of girls want about their well being. This govt order wouldn’t be potential with out so many ladies who’ve been at this work for many years — a lot of them docs who’re right here with us at this time: Valerie, Susan, Carolyn, and so many others.
So, at this time, as we have fun Ladies’s Historical past Month, let’s write a brand new future for ourselves, for the women and the ladies who will observe — a future the place girls depart docs’ workplaces with extra solutions than questions; a future the place no girl or woman has to listen to, like Maria stated, “It’s all in your head” or “It’s simply stress” — (applause); a future the place girls aren’t simply an afterthought in a world designed for males however the first thought in a world designed for everybody; a future the place girls don’t simply survive, they lead lengthy, wholesome, and pleased lives.
In the present day is just the start. Thanks. (Applause.)
And now, it’s my honor to introduce an individual who helps make the long run a actuality: my husband, the President of the USA, Joe Biden. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: My identify is Joe Biden. (Laughter.) I’m Jill Biden’s husband. (Laughter and applause.)
People, Joyful Ladies’s Historical past Month. (Applause.)
I’m good sufficient to know that when you may have Ji- — Jill, Kamala, and Maria, and all of you — probably the most highly effective, completed girls — within the room abruptly, it’s — I’m — I simply ought to hush up, as my mother stated, and depart. (Laughter.)
However all kidding apart, simply let me say this. Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day right here on the White Home. In the present day is Ladies Histories Mo- — Ladies’s Historical past Month — two of the most effective days of the 12 months again to again. (Laughter and applause.)
The late Irish poet Eavan Boland wrote, “I’ve discovered my identify. I rise. I rose up. I remembered it. And now I can inform my story. It was completely different from the story informed about me,” finish of quote.
That poem entitled “Mom Eire,” however she captures the spirit of girls’s historical past in America as nicely.
And, you understand, in your personal approach, all of you might be — generations of girls earlier than you may have risen up, proven your energy, and informed your story. It’s made all of the distinction on the earth in telling the total story of America.
We’re the one nation on the earth divided — and devined — outlined — each different nation is outlined primarily based on geography or — or ethnicity. We’re the one nation primarily based on an concept. Give it some thought. “We maintain these truths to be self-evident, that every one ladies and men are created equal, endowed by…” — et cetera. Handled equally our entire lives, it’s imagined to be. We’ve by no means totally lived as much as that, however we — we’ve by no means walked away from it both.
However Jill and I, Kamala and Doug, and the whole administration have by no means walked away from it both, particularly in relation to girls.
To state the plain, girls are half the inhabitants, underrepresented throughout the board. However not in my administration. (Applause.)
To state the — state the reality, all the ladies in our household are brighter than all the lads, so it’s not a tough determination. (Laughter.)
We’re proud to have an administration that appears like America, with extra girls serving in senior positions than any time in American historical past. Our his- — his- — our historic Vice President, who’s doing an unimaginable job. (Applause.) The Cupboard and employees at each stage throughout the administration, together with army girls who’ve gotten confirmed for 2 four-star generals to steer fight — fight committees — (applause) — the second and third girls ever to take action, in addition to the primary girl ever to be on the Joint Chiefs of Workers.
It issues.
Collectively, we’ve put the primary Black girl on the USA Supreme Courtroom. (Applause.) And I’m mildly prejudiced, however I believe she’s the brightest particular person on the Courtroom. (Laughter.) And extra Black girls on the federal circuit courts of appeals than all earlier presidents mixed. (Applause.)
And collectively, we’ve made historic progress via one of many hardest durations that our nation has ever been via.
People — and as Jill simply talked about, we’ve launched the first-ever White Home Initiative on Ladies’s Well being Analysis to pioneer the following technology of scientific analysis and discovery in girls’s well being. Consider all of the breakthroughs we’ve made in drugs throughout the board, however girls haven’t been the main target. Analysis has been taking a lot too lengthy to get to you all.
I’ve referred to as on Congress, as we’ve stated — I’m repeating myself right here — $12 billion for that effort. And at this time — (applause) — at this time, we’re jumpstarting that funding by dedicating $200 million to the Nationwide Institute of Well being to sort out a number of the most urgent well being issues dealing with girls at this time.
With the chief order I’m about to signal, I’m directing probably the most complete set of govt actions ever taken to enhance girls’s well being — ever taken.
And I’m going to make sure that girls’s well being is built-in and prioritized throughout the whole federal authorities. It’s not simply in girls’s well being. It’s not simply in NIH. The Nationwide Science Basis, the Protection Division, the Environmental Safety Company — I imply, throughout the board, that is actually severe.
And I’ll spearhead new analysis and innovation for breakthroughs on a variety of girls’s well being wants and — that they expertise all through your — you expertise all through your lives. As a result of it actually issues. It issues.
As a result of we’re targeted on supporting girls collectively, our administration has turned across the financial system, as a result of we targeted on girls, by the best way — targeted on girls. (Applause.)
We’ve achieved the bottom unemployment fee for ladies in 70 years. (Applause.) Extra girls, particularly moms, within the workforce than ever earlier than; the narrowest gender [pay] hole on file; however a lot extra to do — a lot extra to do.
Historic investments in over 225,000 childcare facilities, 90 % of that are owned by wo- — owned by girls and staffed by girls so households can deal with their kids and get to work and enhance the financial system. Sixty % in- — (applause) — sixty % improve in loans to small companies owned by girls, totaling $5.1 billion. We’re simply getting began.
By means of my American Rescue Plan and the Youngster Tax Credit score, we lower little one poverty almost in half. That’s a truth. (Applause.) Which I’d add, my Republican mates inform me we’re spending some huge cash? It’s saving billions of {dollars} — saving billions of {dollars}. We’re truly reducing the deficit too.
Republicans voted towards it and let it expire, however I’m combating to deliver the Youngster Tax Credit score again. (Applause.) We’re ensuring that ladies can entry jobs in sectors which have been traditionally underrepresented: manufacturing, development, clear power.
And I make i- — no apologies for being pro-union, however I inform you what — (applause) — we had very (inaudible) conferences with the union management. Not a joke. I stated I need you to indicate me on a yearly foundation elevated variety of girls in unions, an elevated variety of minorities in unions. (Applause.)
All kidding apart, there’s not a rattling factor a person can do {that a} girl can’t do. (Applause.) To state the plain, if we wish to have the strongest financial system on the earth, you may’t depart half the workforce behind.
As we advance girls’s financial empowerment, we’re additionally making certain their bodily safety. With the assistance of so a lot of you, we’ve introduced the whole of funding towards — Violence In opposition to Ladies Act, which I proudly spent six years getting handed and wrote after I — as my daughter stated, with my very own paw. (Laughter.)
We proudly wrote — we’ve offered $700 million in 2023 — most ever — funding for every thing from neighborhood teams targeted on prevention, establishing the first-ever hotline on abuse, holding pr- — predators accountable, et cetera. It issues so much. (Applause.)
Due to girls leaders in Congress, I additionally signed probably the most vital gun security regulation in almost 30 years — (applause) — to maintain weapons out of the palms of convicted home abusers. The concept I needed to struggle to get that accomplished? Domes- — convicted home abusers weren’t allowed, below the regulation I wrote, that’s saying the — they’ll’t personal a weapon.
And so, we — along with that, we lastly acquired it handed. I ca- — anyway. (Laughter.)
So our youngsters can be taught to learn and write, not discover ways to duck and canopy at school. I imply, critically, take into consideration that. Within the y- — within the 12 months 2024, we’re speaking about kids studying to duck and canopy at school?
However I can’t cease till I ban assault weapons once more and high-capacity magazines. (Applause.) Not a joke.
That doesn’t abuse the Second Modification. You’ve by no means been in a position to have any weapon. That by no means was the case from the very starting.
We created reforms that essentially shift how our army investigates and prosecutes sexual afuse — assault and home abuse. And by the best way, she’s not right here at this time, however you all — all thank Kirsten B- — Gillibrand for that struggle — (inaudible). (Applause.)
We’re additionally persevering with to face with girls and women worldwide towards rape and sexual violence used as weapons of struggle and terror. And we’ve spoken on it. We’re one of many few leaders on the earth which have spoken towards it, as a result of we’re going to — and we’re punishing nations that have interaction in it.
However, of us, as I stated in my State of the Union Deal with, there’s no odd time in our historical past. Democracy is actually at stake right here at residence and overseas. Our fundamental freedoms are below assault: freedom to vote, the liberty to decide on, and a lot extra.
My predecessor and his allies in Congress make no apologies for it.
However right here’s the deal: In its determination to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Courtroom wrote, quote, “Ladies are usually not with out e- — electoral and/or political energy.” (Applause.) No kidding. (Applause.)
As they are saying in Claymont, Delaware, the place I spent my childhood, “They ain’t seen nothing but.” (Laughter.)
No, I’m severe, although. Clearly, these bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade who help a nationwide ban on abortion don’t have any clue concerning the energy of girls. I imply it sincerely. (Applause.)
However they’re discovering out.
When reproductive freedom was on the poll, the American individuals spoke in 2022 and 2024 [2023]. And with the management of this girl to my left right here, they’re going to talk out once more in 2024. (Applause.)
When you ship me a Democratic Congress that helps reproductive freedom, I promise you — I promise you, we are going to restore Roe v. Wade once more because the regulation of the land. (Applause.)
Look, you’ve been standing a very long time. (Laughter.) So, let me conclude this. You may’t lead America with outdated concepts that take us backwards. To guide America — I used to be with Xi Jinping within the Tibetan Plateau. I traveled 17,000 miles with him. I’ve spent extra time with him than another world chief. And on the Plateau, he requested me, “Are you able to outline America for me?” That is the God’s fact.
And I stated, “Sure, I can. One phrase: potentialities.” We’re the one nation on the earth that believes something is feasible.
To guide the land of potentialities, we want a imaginative and prescient for the long run laying out what we will and may do and what we’re going to do. I’ve made it clear I see — a future I see.
I see a future the place we defend democracy, not diminish it; a future the place we restore the best to decide on and defend our freedoms, not take them away; a future the place the middle-class household has a good shot and the rich start to pay their truthful taxes.
I see a future the place we save the planet from the local weather disaster and our nation from gun violence. All inside our energy.
And, above all, I see a future for all of America, a future for my daughter and my 4 granddaughters. And, by the best way, they’re s- — they’re unimaginable. You must meet my granddaughters. (Laughter.) Oh, you assume I’m kidding. I’m not.
A future for all girls. And I’ll at all times be a president for all People as a result of I imagine in America. And with none exaggeration, I imagine in you. You’re the explanation I’m extra optimistic than I’ve ever been in my whole profession.
So — so, let’s — let’s stand up, know — know our energy, inform our story.
And let’s keep in mind who we’re, for God’s sake. We’re the USA of America. There’s nothing past our capability — nothing, nothing, nothing — after we work collectively. (Applause.)
Could God bless you all. And should God defend our troops. (Applause.)
You’re the greatest. It’s is a superb honor. (Applause.) No, I actually — thanks. Thanks, thanks, thanks. (Applause.)
(The President holds palms with the First Woman.) I simply wished to carry your hand.
I wish to embarrass her and maintain her hand in public. (Laughter.)
I’m going to signal this govt order now. (Applause.)
(The manager order is signed.)
Thanks, thanks, thanks.
THE FIRST LADY: Thanks.
THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for getting her in. (Laughter.)
Thanks, everyone. (Applause.)
Mark my phrases, in 4 years, you’re going to see vital change in girls’s well being. I promise you. (Applause.)
12:38 P.M. EDT