White House council for women and girls goes dark under Trump

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

When President George W. Bush took office, he quickly and quietly disbanded President Bill Clinton’s Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach — and now President Donald Trump appears to be doing the same thing to President Barack Obama’s White House Council on Women and Girls.

The council, created by Obama in 2009 to monitor the impact of policy changes and liaise with women's groups has been defunct while the Trump administration evaluates whether to keep it, according to three senior White House officials.

“We want the input of the various agencies to understand the assets they have so that we make this office additive, not redundant,” said White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks.

She added that the White House “is evaluating the best positioning of this office going forward (and other legacy Obama offices)” and flagged other policy initiatives, including adviser Ivanka Trump’s push for paid family leave and STEM education for girls, that will address gender disparities.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/30/donald-trump-white-house-council-for-women-and-girls-239979

[Zoonart]

1. It's the He Man Women Haters Club!

[Liberalagogo]

6. Here ya go...

[Zoonart]

7. OMG!

That is perfect. thanks for turning me on to it.

[Catmusicfan]

2. Anyone surprised? I am Surprised it took THIS long to notice.

[tanyev]

3. Probably just as well, what with Trump's definition of outreach to women.

[highplainsdem]

9. True.

[japple]

4. That's okay. Ivanka can set up a council that will provide information on how to dress,

apply makeup, be attractive to men, and to train little girls for the Miss America pageant. They will also give out referrals for breast and butt implants.

[procon]

5. News from the frontlines; the War On Women continues apace.

Trump has already scrubbed the Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach webpage from the government's website.


The office sought input from women’s advocacy groups about public policy and political issues that impacted women. It addressed such issues as domestic violence, equal pay, healthcare, equality and abortion, sound familiar?

[Sunlei]

11. all the good stuff is right here frozen in time forever.trump hates this archive of a real president

Even global warming facts are archived & ALL the "public" Russia information is right there in the media files on the record forever. Thousands of answered press questions. Womans issues, ACA stats and facts, anti bullying campaign

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/


January 2017 Photo of the day "Vice President Joe Biden hugs President Barack Obama after being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction during a tribute in the State Dining Room of the White House, Jan. 12, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)"


We'll always LOVE you

[Achilleaze]

8. Republican War on Women

now being led by the freaking republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

So weak. So afraid. So sad. republicans really need to get a grip on their fear and cowardice.

[Igel]

10. Obama put those who supported him (and vice-versa)

on the council, along with many of his cabinet members. Need to keep them all talking, after all.

Trump disposes of the council? I'm not sure that this is any worse than a council composed of the kinds of appointee he'd choose.

I wouldn't expect him to pick people who he despised or who despised him, or the kind of people that would relish embarrassing him because they disagreed with him.

Cut it or not, it's either dead or a zombie. It was established by executive whim, it can be re-established later by executive whim.

[Sunlei]

12. Obama has a lot of trusted competent people & he depended on them & they did great work.

I don't think trump has any real friends and only a couple family members he trusts. He's alone in that fish bowl. Even Republican Leaders have never let him in the Republican party inner loop.

Trump thinks fox-lies & friends are buddies to him, that TV network has always been an Arm of the Republican party.

fox p(R)opandaTV pros at pandering RW points into trumps unfit brain, that's why he calls in to fox DAILY. They probably record everything too, I bet the locker-room chats are something mighty weird to hear.

[riversedge]

13. :-)