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"Wasn't too long ago, we in the country didn't want to talk
about violence against women as a national epidemic, let alone
do something. Society often looked away," Biden told survivors
and advocates gathered on the White House's South Lawn.
The Biden administration's initiatives include a resource center
run by the Department of Justice to help law enforcement,
attorneys and victims service organizations respond to cyber
crimes including non-consensual or revenge porn and online
stalking, the White House said.
The Department of Justice will also expand technical assistance
for local law enforcement to remove firearms from domestic
abusers, and it announced more than $690 million in fiscal year
2024 grant funding for programs to help communities address
gender-based violence.
Klein said the administration would also establish an office of
gender-based violence through the Department of Housing and
Urban Development to help meet domestic violence survivors'
housing and economic needs.
Biden helped craft the 1994 legislation, which criminalized
physical abuse against women at the federal level and provided
government funding for victim services, advocate training,
shelters and prevention education.
The law expired under President Donald Trump in 2019. Biden
signed a spending bill that renewed the legislation in 2022.
(Reporting by Gabriella Borter; Editing by Stephen Coates and
Lincoln Feast.)
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