The defense secretary’s move to end the program that two fellow Trump Cabinet members helped establish while in Congress — and was signed into law by Trump — drew bipartisan pushback.

President Donald Trump signed the Pentagon’s “Women, Peace and Security” program into law in 2017 during his first term to increase the involvement of women in conflict resolution. Defense

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is being criticized after declaring he ended execution of a federal law promoting women, peace, and security that he described as “yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative” — which was promoted by current top members of the Trump administration and signed into law in 2017 by President Donald