House expected to pass COVID relief bill next week

President Biden told acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Bob Fenton Friday afternoon he was "ready to mobilize" federal agencies to support Texas during the state's weather crisis, according to a readout from the White House of their call.

Biden told Fenton he wants to "ensure that any critical needs are met." As he previewed earlier Friday, the president also said he plans to sign Texas' Major Disaster Declaration request "as soon as FEMA sends over the formal request from Gov. [Greg] Abbott." 

Biden added his White House would continue to stay in close contact with FEMA and local officials through senior administration officials. 

More than 14 million people are scrambling for safe drinking water and many lack the power to boil it after a historic winter storm earlier this week knocked out power and froze pipes across Texas. 

-ABC News' Molly Nagle

Pfizer workers gave President Joe Biden a lot to be happy about during his tour of the Kalamazoo, Michigan, manufacturing site. He was shown two new assembly lines that will be able to produce 700,000 doses per hour starting next week, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla confirmed Pfizer's supply of lipids needed to produce the vaccines has greatly increased.

Biden was accompanied by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Bourla and Shawn Hamilton, the production lead at the site.

A process engineer explained to Biden that six months ago the site was "basically warehouse space," and the whole facility was designed and completed in that amount of time.

"We feel we are now going to run capacity, good news for manufacturing capacity, we will improve our weekly segments more than double," Bourla said.

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President Biden tours Pfizer plant in Michigan

The president said the country is on track to have enough vaccine supply for all Americans by next summer while he visited the manufacturing plant.

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki spoke with journalists on Air Force One en route to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Biden will tour a Pfizer vaccine facility and deliver remarks Friday.

Psaki said the president wanted to see the factory in action because it employs many Michiganders and because it is "producing a large swath of the Pfizer vaccines that are going out to the American public." She also said that the factory benefitted from Biden invoking the Defense Production Act.

"The administration engaged with Pfizer suppliers to obtain the equipment needed to expand manufacturing capacity, including at the facility in Kalamazoo," Psaki said.

After his virtual address at the Munich Security Conference, Biden responded to questions about the weather in Texas and confirmed he is considering visiting the state next week but wants to make sure his visit won't burden people responding to the crisis. 

"If in fact it’s concluded that I can do without creating a burden for the folks on the ground when they’re dealing with this crisis, I plan on going," Biden said.

Biden also confirmed he would soon sign a major disaster declaration for Texas, in addition to the emergency declaration he signed Sunday. Biden took the opportunity to tout his efforts on Texas' behalf as keeping a campaign promise to be a president for all Americans.

"It’s all about commitment to the American people -- that people make to one another -- so we’re gonna sign that declaration once it’s in front of me," Biden said.

With the major disaster declaration, Biden will direct more federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense, to identify additional resources to help Texans, in addition to the help FEMA is already providing.

-ABC News' Sarah Kolinovsky