“To state the obvious, women are half the population and underrepresented across the board,” Biden told a crowd in the White House East Room on Monday. “Not in my administration.”“If you want to have the strongest economy in the world, you can’t leave half the country behind,” the president said. “voted against it and let it expire, but I’m fighting to bring the child tax credit back,” he added.over Trump with women, 37% to 32%.
“Women are not without electoral or political power. No kidding,” Biden said. “Let’s rise up, know our power, tell our story.”Biden’s Women’s History Month executive order will “ensure women’s health is integrated and prioritized across the federal research portfolio and budget, and will galvanize new research on a wide range of topics, including women’s midlife health,” according to the White House.
“This includes the launch of a new -wide effort that will direct key investments of $200 million in Fiscal Year 2025 to fund new, interdisciplinary women’s health research — a first step towards the transformative central Fund on Women’s Health that the president has called on Congress to invest in,” the White House wrote in a statement.