Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is under fire for comments he made about the state of Black maternal health in an interview with Politico last week.

Cassidy said that while Black people make up a third of the state’s population and experience higher rates of pregnancy-related deaths, “if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear.”

(So rather than address a problem, his solution is to fiddle with the umbers to make it appear like there is no actual problem. Specifically don't count black people in the numbers.)