Defense Secretary Hegseth brags about ending ‘woke’ program on women and security that Trump signed into law

Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, boasted on Tuesday on social networks that he had dismantled a program supporting women in the security teams, an initiative he called “Woke” but was signed by his boss, president Donald Trump.

In an article on the social platform X, Hegseth called the “Women, Peace & Security” program in the Department of Defense “a United Nations program pushed by feminists and leftist activists. Politicians sink; The troops hate him ”.

It is, in fact, bipartite legislation that Trump reported in 2017 which recognized the role that women have in the achievement of security objectives, especially abroad when their male counterparts may not be able to question or have direct access to women for cultural or religious reasons.

It is HegSeth's last controversial movement while the Pentagon is working on Nix orContent considered to promote diversityequity or inclusion. After Trump ordered federal agencies inDEI purge contentsThe Pentagon has published a large edict for military services that sparked the public outcry when online images ofNational heroes like Jackie Robinsonhave been briefly deleted.

Some of Trump's office officials supported the women's, peace and security program when they progressed in the legislative process. And General Dan Caine, president of the joint staff chiefs, told Congress this month that the program had helped the troops in combat.

“When we were going to the field after concluding an assault, we would have women who were talking with these women and the children who were on the goal, and they would help us to understand the human ground in a new and new way,” Caine said at his confirmation audience in April.

Trump met and was loved by Caine when Caine served in Iraq, part of the reason for which Trump appointed him to the presidency.

Internal security secretary Kristi Noem, while representing southern Dakota at the Congress, wrote the version of the 2017 Women's Chamber, Peace and Security Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who as a senator co-has the version of the Senate of this bill, said this month that it was “the first law adopted by a country of the world to the protection of women and the promotion of their participation in the company”.

The legislation stems from a resolution approved unanimously by the United Nations Security Council, the most powerful UN organization in October 2000 aimed to include women in peacebuilding efforts because women and girls have historically brought the weight of the world conflict.

“It is not a secret for anyone that women remain largely on the outskirts of formal peace processes and decision-making, which is not good for the cause of peace,” the United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in response to HegSeth's comments.

Dujarric added that “one of the real impacts of the women's, peace and security program was the growing number of peace women who are used in the UN missions, which has had a very clear, measurable and positive impact on the protection of civilians in conflict areas.”

The HegSeth post fired from the Democratic legislators who continue to question its work qualifications after using the commercial application signal forShare sensitive military operationsWith other officials, his wife and his brother.

“Hegseth has absolutely no idea what he is doing,” said senator Jeanne Shaheen, Dn.H.,said on x.

Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA., Read the hegseth post aloud during a congress hearing on Tuesday.

“This tweet contains blatant inaccuracies that are far from the standard we should expect from the Ministry of Defense,” said Kaine.

Hegseth in his article called the program “yet another judicial / social judge / Biden judge which surmounts our commanders and our troops”, committing to the strict minimum required by the congress while working to eliminate it completely.

But the program was celebrated by Trump, his administration and his family. It has become an announced part of the achievements of the first Trump administration for women, and in 2019, Ivanka Trump celebrated that the WPS program was starting a new partnership to help train cadetsColombia.

In a later article, Hegseth described the program “directly and security focused”, but said that it had been “distorted and armed” by the Biden administration. He confirmed his intention to end it.

A Hegseth spokesman said there would be no comments on the secretary's messages.

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