WATCH: Did Joe Biden Just Forget Kamala Harris’ Name?

Did Joe Biden just forget the name of his own vice president?

Speaking at the White House during an event for Women’s History Month, Joe Biden referred to Kamala Harris with a strange choice of words.

Instead of using her name or title, Biden called Harris “this woman to my left here.”

Watch for yourself:

Biden refers to Kamala Harris as "this woman to my left here" pic.twitter.com/BUUnM6pjSL

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This prompted social media users to question: Did Joe Biden really just forget Kamala Harris’ name?

He doesn’t even remember her name! OMG!!

— Jodi Lynn (@RoseLane007) March 18, 2024

He forgot her name. 😂😂😂

— Nancy Kemp Jordan (@NancysPlace101) March 18, 2024

Or, does he just not respect her enough to use her name?

She’s not important she’s just this woman 😂😂

— Johanna (@Malevolentcutie) March 18, 2024

Perhaps, he’s just used to calling Kamala by a different title…

He usually says president Harris. 🙄

— Angel Sicily 🇺🇸 (@sicily_angel) March 18, 2024

What’s your opinion?

Per usual, following his remarks at the White House event, Biden had to be prompted by his wife to leave the stage and wandered off, looking confused.

A confused Biden wanders off the stage after instructions from Jill, Ed.D. pic.twitter.com/CZVHs0GtcS

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This all went down earlier today at Biden’s White House Women’s History Month event, where he signed an executive order granting $12 billion in funding to women’s health, pending Congressional approval.

The Washington Examiner has more details on the event:

President Joe Biden Monday underscored his record on prioritizing women, from the number of females in his Cabinet to his economic priorities, during a White House Women’s History Month event at which he signed a women’s health executive order.

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“To state the obvious, women are half the population and underrepresented across the board,” Biden told a crowd in the White House East Room on Monday. “Not in my administration.”

For example, Biden praised Vice President Kamala Harris, the country’s first female vice president, for “doing an incredible job,” and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the country’s first black female justice, as “smartest” on the high court.

Biden also contended that he and his aides had “turned around the economy” after the COVID-19 pandemic “because we focused on women,” citing low unemployment rates for women and his expansion of the child tax credit.

“If you want to have the strongest economy in the world, you can’t leave half the country behind,” the president said. “Republicans voted against it and let it expire, but I’m fighting to bring the child tax credit back,” he added.

The Independent added:

resident Joe Biden has signed a historic executive order that will channel major funds into women’s health, including research on menopause and mid-life health.

The president issued the order at a White House Women’s History Month event on Monday morning, where he was joined by First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former first lady of California Maria Shriver.

The order allocates $12bn to and marks the “most comprehensive set” of executive action to improve research on women’s health, according to the White House.

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However, this funding is not guaranteed. Given Congress has the “power of the purse,” lawmakers can move to deny the president his funding.

“So now that the President has done his job, we have to do ours,” Ms Shriver, a journalist, author and advocate for Alzheimer’s research, said at the event.

“We have to get Congress to approve the $12bn investment this president has called for to implement this bold vision.”

If Congress allows it to move forward, the order will provide funds to foster research on menopause, as well as enable the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch its first-ever “Pathways to Prevention” series on menopause.