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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/hegseth-women-peace-and-security-program-00315226
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday he
will wind down a program at the Pentagon that
boosts the participation of women in peace
building and conflict prevention efforts that
President Donald Trump signed into law in his
first term.
In a post on X, Hegseth called the Women Peace
and Security program at the Defense Department
“yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden
initiative that overburdens our commanders and
troops — distracting from our core task:
WAR-FIGHTING.” He went on to call it a “UNITED
NATIONS program pushed by feminists and
left-wing activists.”
His attack on the program is especially notable
since Trump signed the program into law and
multiple members of Trump’s current cabinet
backed the effort as members of Congress.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, then a
member of Congress from South Dakota, wrote the
House version of the 2017 Women, Peace and
Security Act alongside Rep. Jan Schakowsky
(D-Ill.). Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a
former Florida senator, co-sponsored that
chamber’s version of the law. That bill
codified the “women, peace and security” agenda
and its priorities across the State Department,
Pentagon and other government agencies into
U.S. law.
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