Tammy Baldwin: “That's a suicide prevention and mental health crisis…”

“One other thing I would mention, and so a number of years ago, I co led bipartisan legislation to create the 988 hotline for those who don't know what that is. That's a suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. There's always been one, but it used to be a ten digit number that nobody knew. Right. And now we make people aware that help is just a call or a text away.” (04:50–04:55)

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