"We're not going back to the shutdowns of March of 2020," says White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, as the US national average of daily cases is currently higher than 60,000 and rising rapidly. "Too many people are vaccinated, there's been too much progress on the economic front," she adds during her daily news briefing. White House American Rescue Plan Coordinator Gene Sperling says President Joe Biden "has not only kicked the tires, he has double, triple, quadruple checked" whether the federal ban on evictions due to expire on Saturday could be extended. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES