Jen Psaki: There Are Reasons for Republicans to Work with Dems — Are They Against Reopening Schools or Getting Vaccines?

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PSAKI: "Because the pieces that are in, for example, this Covid package that is the top priority for him right now, are things the Democrats and Republicans across the country support, 70% of the public supports them. Are Republicans now against reopening schools? Are they against getting unemployment insurance checks to the American people? Are they against getting vaccines in the arms of Americans? So, we want to lay this out and speak directly to the people out in the public who are watching the briefing, too, sometimes, or watching clips of it, too, sometimes, to really explain to them what we’re doing. So I promise you, I’ve been in this town long enough, so has President Biden. Nobody is naive in the White House about how hard it’s going to be and none of us think that Republicans are just going to lay down and work with us overnight, but we feel like we have to try. And we have to lay out for the public what we’re trying to do and that we are trying to work in a bipartisan way. And then we have a range of tools at our disposal to get relief to the public if that doesn’t work out and if they don’t take us up on it at every opportunity."