President Joe Biden held his first Cabinet meeting in almost a full year on Friday and promptly handed the discussions over to first lady Jill Biden who was seated at the head of the table.

“I heard that clapping, it wasn’t for me, when we came in,” the president said. “This is the first time Jill has joined us, and goes to show how important of an issue it is,” Biden said to initiate the meeting. The first lady was in attendance to speak about an initiative to fund women’s health programs.

“Our nation is home to the best health research in the world, yet women’s health is understudied, and research is underfunded. And we still know too little about how to affectively prevent, diagnose, and treat a range of health conditions in women, from heart disease to cancers,” Jill Biden began.

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