When I came to office, most Americans assumed that bipartisanship was impossible. I never believed it.
This year, we've made real progress – together.
We confronted the mental health crisis head-on – launching 988, the suicide and crisis hotline, funding an additional 14,000 school-based mental health professionals, and proposing a new rule to improve mental health coverage.
We worked with Congress to secure funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to change how we confront cancers and diseases. And this year, it launched its first program funding innovative treatments – a milestone in our fight to end cancer as we know it.
I've now signed into law more than 30 bills to address the most important issues facing our veterans – including toxic-exposure and mental health. We expanded health services for women veterans, strengthened veteran home care programs, and supported military-connected families through Jill's Joining Forces Initiative.
We passed a law making it easier for health providers to prescribe effective treatments for opioid addiction and, for the first time, Naloxone became available over the counter at grocery stores and pharmacies across the country.
This year is proof that there's much more that unites us than divides us. But there is so much more to do.
Here's to delivering more progress in 2024.
