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11.54pm GMT

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Joe Biden said the passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act “should not be a Democratic or Republican issue”.

After the House passed the legislation, he asked the Senate to do the same. “Growing evidence shows that Covid-19 has only exacerbated the threat of intimate partner violence, creating a pandemic within a pandemic for countless women at risk for abuse,” he said in a statement. “In short, this is an urgent crisis.”

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