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Biden Receives COVID Pfizer Booster 'This Is A Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated'
Obama Center Groundbreaking: ‘Chicago Is Where Everything Most Precious To Me Begins’
Barack Obama points to a rendering of his presidential li- brary, in Chicago, where ground was broken this week.
President Joe Biden
received his booster shot of the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID- 19 vaccine Monday at the White House, just days after the Food and Drug Adminis- tration and the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the third dose for Americans over 65, those with an underlying health conditions and front- line workers at higher risk of exposure to coronavirus.
The president, delivering remarks ahead of getting his third dose of the Pfizer vac- cine, again made a plea to un- vaccinated Americans.
"This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated," the president said.
Biden took questions from reporters as he received
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his vaccine on camera, telling them that he had "no side ef- fects" after his first and se- cond dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Biden said first lady Jill Biden plans to get a booster shot as well.
When asked how many Americans would need to be vaccinated for the country to get back to "normal," the pre-
sident said his mandates help.
"I think we get the vast majority by just going on with some industries and some schools, 97-98%," Biden said, seemingly refe- rring to his executive order, signed earlier this month, re- quiring all federal workers in the executive branch to be vaccinated, as well as another that mandated all private companies with more than 100 employees to require vaccinations.
"I think we're getting awful close but I'm not the scientist," Biden added.
"But one thing is for sure: A quarter of the country can- not go unvaccinated and us not have a problem," Biden said.
The long-delayed ground- breaking for the Obama Pre- sidential Center kicked off Tuesday with a videotaped message from Barack Oba- ma’s former vice president and current Commander-in- Chief Joe Biden.
Recalling Obama’s vic- tory party, held in another Chicago park in 2008, Biden said: ”Hope and change are not just slogans and expecta- tions. Hope and change is an ethos, a conviction. And that’s what today represents. It’s not just breaking ground on a new building. It’s brea-
king ground on the very idea of America as a place of pos- sibility.”
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot then walked out and took the podium, touting the “transformative inves- tment” of the presidential center.
”This groundbreaking marks the next chapter and a journey that began several years ago,” Lightfoot said. “It took many twists and turns, but due to the perseve- rance, dedication and hard work of many, we’ve arrived at this momentous day.
Barack Obama: Tax The Rich,
Including Me, To Fund
President Biden Spending Plan
Former President Barack Obama says wealthy Ameri- cans – including himself – can afford tax increases to help fund President Joe Bi- den’s ambitious spending plan.
“I think they can afford it,” Obama told ABC’s Good Morning America. “We can afford it. I put myself in this category now.”
Obama is reckoned to have a personal fortune of around $70M. Since leaving the White House in 2017 he has released a bestselling me- moir as part of a $65M book deal and with his wife, Mi- chelle Obama, signed a Netflix deal thought to be worth more than $100M. He spoke to ABC to mark the start of construction at his
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presidential library, in Chi- cago.
Republicans and business groups oppose corporate and personal tax increases in the Biden spending package, which is priced at $3.5 trillion and aims to improve health- care, childcare, the fight against climate change and other Democratic priorities.
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