Biden taps Harris to lead White House fight to expand voting rights

President Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House effort to bolster voting rights, adding to a growing list of responsibilities she’s in charge of, including addressing the “root causes” of migration in Central America and expanding access to broadband.

Harris and the Biden administration have pointed to "root causes" such as violence, poverty and climate in Central America for unusually high migration numbers, while Republicans have pointed to a rollback of Trump-era immigration policies.  Speaking in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, where 300 Black people were killed when a white mob attacked the Greenwood district, known as "Black Wall Street" for its thriving businesses, Biden urged voting groups to "redouble their efforts" to register and educate voters. He declared June a "month of action" for Congress to take up voting rights legislation.  The president called voting a "sacred right under assault with incredible intensity like I've never seen," as a number of GOP-led states have enacted voting restrictions since the 2020 election.