Hegseth ‘proud’ to end Women, Peace and Security program
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Pete Hegseth said he will begin to to dismantle a Pentagon program aimed at advancing women's participation in war matters — despite President Trump having signed it into law during his first term.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted on social media Tuesday that he had dismantled a program supporting women on security teams — and may not have realized the program he tried to break was not a ''woke'' Biden-era initiative but instead a celebrated program signed into law by his boss, President…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Tuesday that he is killing a first-term Trump administration program focused on women in national security – claiming former President Joe Biden turned it “woke.”
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that he will move to end a Department of Defense program for women created during and promoted by the first Trump administration.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday he was ending the Defense Department’s Women, Peace and Security program, which he termed a “Biden initiative” and that was enacted by President Donald Trump in his first term, championed by his daughter Ivanka Trump and based on a law co-sponsored by…
The program began after President Donald Trump signed the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017, which Kristi Noem wrote and Marco Rubio co-sponsored.
WASHINGTON >> Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth today canceled a program that promoted the contributions of women in national security sectors, even though it was signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017 and has been championed by current Trump administration officials.
Pete Hegseth said he will begin to to dismantle a Pentagon program aimed at advancing women's participation in war matters — despite President Trump having signed it into law during his first term.
The program was bipartisan legislation that Trump signed into law in 2017 that recognized the role women have in achieving security goals, especially overseas when their male counterparts may not be able to have direct access to women for cultural or religious reasons.
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