Children under the age of twelve. Who can't get vaccinated yet. Well the best way for parents to protect their child under the age of starts at home every parent every team sibling. Every caregiver around them should be vaccinate. Children halves four times higher. Chance and getting hospitalized if they live in a state with low vaccination rates rather than states with high vaccination mets now if you're a parent of young child you're wondering when will be when will feed the vaccine available for them. I strongly support independent scientific view for vaccine uses for children on twelve. We can't take shortcuts. That scientific work. But i made it clear. I will do everything within my power to support the fda with any resource. It needs to continue to do this as safely and as quickly as possible. Donations top doctors are committed to keeping the public at large updates on the process. So parents can plan now. The schools we know that if schools follow the science and implemented safety measures like testing maske adequate ventilation systems provided the money for social distancing. Vaccinations then children can be safe from. Cova nineteen in schools today about ninety percent of school. Staff and teachers are vaccinated. We should get that to one hundred percent. My administration is already acquired teachers at the schools. Run by the defense department. Authorities president in the federal system the defense department interior department to get vaccinated. That's authority i possess tonight. I'm announcing that will require all of nearly three hundred thousand educators in the federal head paid program head start programs must be vaccinated as well to protect your youngest. Our youngest most precious americans and give parents are comfort and tonight. I'm calling all governors require vaccinations for all teachers and staff. Some already done so. We need more to step up vaccination requirements. The schools are nothing new. They work their overwhelmingly supported by educators and the unions and all school officials trying to do the right thing by our children. I'll always be on your side. Let me be blunt. My plan also takes on elected officials in states. That are undermining you. These life saving actions right now. Local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while they're governor picks the fight and even threatens their salaries or their jobs talk about bullying schools. These governors won't help speed depend. Demi i'll use my power as president to get them out of the way. The department of education has already begun to take legal action against states undermining protection. The local school officials ordered any teacher or school official. Whose pays with hell for doing the right thing. We will have that pay restored by the federal government one hundred percent. Promise you i will have your back. Fourth piece of my plan is increasing testing and mask from the start. America's failed to do enough cova one thousand nine hundred sixty new order to better detect and control the variant. I'm taking steps tonight to make testing more available. More affordable and more convenient are used the defense production act to increase production of rapid tests including those that you can use at home. That production is ramping up. My administration has worked with top retailers. Like walmart amazon and krogers and tonight. We're announcing that no later. The next week each of these outlets will start to sell at home rapid test. Kits at cost stations. Along the sean hannity show network. We continue our coverage with the president as we head into this Break local break if you care to take this amedee pr. Price reduction frat at home test kits for up to thirty five percent reduction. Also expand expand free test eve at ten thousand pharmacies around the country and will commit. We're committing two billion dollars to purchase nearly three hundred million rapid tests for distribution to community health centers. Food banks schools. So that every american no matter their income can access free inconvenient tests. This is important to everyone particularly for a parent or a child with a child's not old enough to be vaccinated. You be able to test them at home and test those around them. In addition to testing we don't masking help. Stop the spread of covert nineteen. That's why when. I came into office required mask for all federal buildings on on federal lands on airlines and other modes of transportation today tonight. I'm announcing that. The transportation safety administration the tsa will double the fines on travelers. That refused to mask. If you break the rules be prepared to pay. And by the way. Show some respect anger. You see on television toward flight attendants and others. Doing the job is wrong. It's ugly the fifth piece of my plan. Just protecting our economic recovery because of our vaccination program and the american rescue plan when she passed through in my administration we've had record job creation for new administration economic growth unmatched in forty years. We cannot let unvaccinated. Do this progress undoing. Turn it back so tonight. I'm announcing additional steps to strengthen economic recovery. We'll be expanding. Covert nineteen economic injury disaster loan programs. That's program that's going to allow small businesses to borrow up to two million dollars. Five hundred thousand to keep going cova nineteen impacts on their sales. These low inches long term loans require no repayment for two years and became use to hire and retain workers purchase inventory even pay down higher. Cost debt racked up since the pandemic began also be taking additional steps to help small businesses. Stay afloat during the pandemic sixth bruna continue to improve the care of those who do get cova. Ninety in early july i announced the deployment of surge response teams. These are teams comprised of experts from the department of health and human services. The cdc the defense department and the federal emergency management agency fema to areas in the country. That need help to stem the spread of covert ninety since then.