; Whereas a 2022 survey by the National Network to End Domestic Violence reported that 79,335 violence victims were served by domestic violence shelters and programs around the Nation in a single day; Whereas an additional 12,692 requests for services went unmet that day due to lack of resources; Whereas most murdered transgender women are killed by intimate partners; Whereas transgender individuals are 2.2 times more at risk of physical intimate partner violence, and 2.5 times more at risk of sexual intimate partner violence than cisgender individuals; Whereas a 2018 analysis on the killings of women in 47 major United States cities during the previous decade found that nearly half (46 percent) of them died as a result of intimate partner violence; Whereas 61.1 percent of bisexual women, 43.8 percent of lesbian women, 37.3 percent of bisexual men, and 26 percent of homosexual men experience intimate partner violence during their lifetimes; Whereas domestic violence advocates provide lifesaving, essential services; Whereas there is a need to increase—not reduce—funding for programs aimed at intervening in and preventing domestic violence in the United States; and Whereas October is an appropriate month for the observance of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month : Now, therefore, be it