A beautiful thing about our movement is not only the energy we brought to winning in 2020, but also the determination to make those victories matter.

We saw it in the COVID stimulus package, our American Rescue Plan. We saw it while beginning to undo Donald Trump's efforts to sabotage our environment. And we see it every day in the bold, progressive leaders who are now charting a course for our country across America.

But there's one more thing that comes with winning: fighting even harder afterwards, so that we don't see our progress wiped out in the coming midterm elections.

I'm more proud of the American Rescue Plan, our COVID-19 stimulus and relief legislation, than just about anything Congress has done in a long time.

I'm sure you've heard a lot about the direct payments for struggling families, or the vaccine infrastructure that the Rescue Plan's stabilizing — but I want to talk today about exactly one group: children.

Because, in one of the hardest times our country has ever seen, the American Rescue Plan takes an absolutely massive step toward eliminating child poverty.

We cut it in half. In half.

On December 14, the first COVID vaccine was given in the United States.

When President Biden took office 37 days later, we had administered 16.5 million doses of the COVID vaccine.

By last Friday, 58 days after that, we have now given more than 118 million doses of the vaccine — nearly double the pace of our original goal of 100 million doses in 100 days.

When I think about the urgency our leadership is showing to get every single American vaccinated by May 1, and compare that to others, for the first time in our pandemic, the situation feels cautiously optimistic.