The Build Back Better bill which was passed by the House in Nov. 2021, has plans to use around $2.2 trillion over the next 10 years to fight climate change and more.
iStock/PeopleImages(NEW YORK) The Biden administration on Tuesday issued a "nationwide call to action" on the maternal health crisis in the United States, which continues to have the highest rate of maternal mortality among developed nations, according to researchers. Vice President Kamala Harris said in remarks at the White House's first Maternal Health Day of Action that the call to action is being made to both the public and private sectors. "This challenge is urgent, and it is important, and it will take all of us," Harris said, kicking off a summit that convened lawmakers, Cabinet secretaries and celebrities, including Olympian Allyson Felix. "To put it simply, in the United States of America, in the 21st century, being pregnant and giving birth should not carry such great risk." "But the truth is, and this is a hard truth, women in our nation are dying before, during and after childbirth," she said. Harris announced Tuesday a new ini