WATCH LIVE: Kamala Harris speaks at White House Tribal Nations Summit
December 06, 2023 03:25 PM
Vice President Kamala Harris is delivering remarks at the White House Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
The summit plans to highlight the Biden administration’s commitment to building relationships with and expanding opportunities for tribal communities.
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President Joe Biden is also expected to speak at the summit Wednesday afternoon.
During the summit, the administration will release a comprehensive 2023 Progress Report for Tribal Nations, which will outline the progress made by the administration within the last year.
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It also will address the “top concerns of Tribal communities, including executive action to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people, securing more stable advance funding for Indian Health Service, and championing innovative new partnerships with Tribal Nations to co-steward their ancestral lands and waters, such as some of our newest National Monuments,” according to the White House.
Harris’s remarks will begin at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.