Donald Trump to strip all funding from State Department team promoting women's rights around the w

[riversedge]

Source: Independent






Leaked plan comes as First Daughter Ivanka defends her father's record with



Donald Trump plans to strip all funding from a State Department bureau that promotes the rights of women around the world, it has emerged.

Oxfam America led criticism of the move, saying said cutting funds for the Office of Global Women’s Issues would have “dire consequences for millions of people, as well as our global standing”.

Documents first leaked to Foreign Policy showed plans to reduce the office’s 2016 budget of $8.25 million (£6.43 million) to zero in 2018, though the President’s budget will still have to make it past Congress.

“It’s clear that women’s empowerment and gender equality are on the chopping block in this budget,” Oxfam vice president for policy, Paul O’Brien, said.

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Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-budget-2018-state-department-cut-office-global-womens-issues-oxfam-ivanka-a7701631.html

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Trump would do this just to spit in Hillary's face!!



Caroline O.? @RVAwonk 3h3 hours ago

Caroline O. Retweeted AM Joy w/Joy Reid

Hillary Clinton established the Office of Global Women's Issues as Secretary of State. Now Trump is working to dismantle it.

AM Joy w/Joy Reid?Verified account @amjoyshow

#Trump to strip all funding from State Department team promoting women's rights around the world

Link to tweet

[underpants]

1. This almost made Ivanka show an emotion

[Solly Mack]

2. I'm sure IT will be along shortly to explain how this empowers women.

[tanyev]

9. He can funnel all that money to her new foundation.

And then her foundation can funnel it into Trump bank accounts.

[Solly Mack]

10. Yep

[notdarkyet]

3. Makes a lie of her belief that her father is a champion for women

[cstanleytech]

6. She clearly has a loose definition of what a champion is that's for sure.

[RKP5637]

30. She doesn't pay close attention to what Daddy says. She seems delusional too. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

8. She knows he isn't. It's her job to soften the blow & present a facade.

"Here I am in all my glory. Living proof, as I sit here in the W.H., shoulder to shoulder with the President, that he cares about women and sees them as real people, as important to the world and the country."

While Trump and his team in the background repeal the fair pay act, cut funding for birth control, cut funding to promote women's rights.

Notice how she makes an appearance and statement immediately before or after the admin. does an anti-woman act. That's her job. To distract and try to present an alternate reality.

Make no mistake: She and her father are chums; she's the favorite; she is not about to think, do, or say anything to upset him or interfere with her inheritance.

[Warpy]

4. They were mean to Ivanka in Germany

so the screaming man-baby is hitting back. This is just another temper tantrum.

Turns out all those women who booed her were absolutely right. We could have told them so.

[VigilantG]

5. Where is Melania? Oh, not allowed to

Speak unless hubby says so!

What a despicable, sad, desperate man! He knows he is going down sooner or later and will just keep sticking it to everyone he can until he is stopped.

The Repug party is just as guilty IMO, for letting him do everything he is doing...to keep their own agenda.

[cstanleytech]

7. They are not "just" as guilty they are completely and 100% at fault as they started this shit

in the first place by empowering people like Trump by giving them a place in their party.

[RKP5637]

31. I think tRump and the republican party are becoming one in the same, anymore. He just

says what they all think. There used to be a distinction, but now it seems to have melded together.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. It has taken many decades to arrive at the America we have today

there is going to be blowback against Trump and the GOP for this upending of
American political values

The GOP calls it a culture war, but it's now larger than that, it is a war for the
soul of mankind

We. Will. Win. This.

[FreepFryer]

14. +1

[karynnj]

34. It has taken many decades to get where we are on social issues -- and -- at least so far, our gains

are for the most part still there. Not a coincidence, many fight as soon as any steps back are proposed. President Obama, speaking after the election, said "You know, the path that this country has taken has never been a straight line. We zig and zag and sometimes we move in ways that some people think is forward and others think is moving back, and that's OK. " https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/09/transcript-president-obamas-remarks-on-donald-trumps-election/?utm_term=.19a92ea916a9

Those of us who have lived the last 50 plus years, know that women, minorities and gays are more accepted and have more rights than when we kids. While fighting to maintain those rights, we should recognize that we have had wins that are are now deeply embedded. Our children started at a different point than we did. Where a teacher in my Junior year of high school would not let me take "mathematician" when we looked at possible careers, by the time that I graduated college, women (including me) graduating with good grades as math majors were in high demand. My daughter and her fiancee have had only positive experiences planning their wedding - unlike my sister and the woman she had to wait 30 years before she could marry under the law. On both of these things, it is not just laws, but the culture that has changed.

I think what we need to do is to work on getting back one of the Houses of Congress in 2018 and winning back the Presidency. Note that anything Trump has done unilaterally, can be reversed unilaterally. The biggest damage that will come from 2016 is the shift on the Supreme Court.

As to the State Department advocacy for women, the fact that Trump has not even nominated people, other than the Secretary, for any of the political positions and his SD has removed career people at the top level suggests to me that this announcement was designed to infuriate exactly the people infuriated. It is ONE small part of dismantling a valuable resource the US has had in the world. That department - and likely the ones dealing with climate change, global health, USAID etc -- will all have to be fought for in Congress when the State Department budget is approved. Here, we may find surprising allies. GW Bush has already advocated that PEPFAR, which was passed when he was President, that deals with AIDS and other disease is something that we need to continue. The AIDS piece started as Democratic legislation (Kerry, who gained Frist as cosponsor) that became a bipartisan SFRC bill (Lugar/Biden) that Bush included in his budget. We WILL lose most battles, but we need to fight as hard as we can - so when we take power again there is support for them.

[bucolic_frolic]

35. Land grabs and deregulation

will be virtually irreversible. The faster we get Russian influence investigated
the better off we will be. The coverup is underway. See Keith Olbermann #62
and #63.

[karynnj]

39. I agree in the case of land grabs - those are hard to reverse

As to deregulation, if the regulation source was an executive order (ie many EPA regulations) - they can be reinstated. If they are legislation based - example Dodd/Frank - if they are overturned or weakened, they are harder to restore unless we have the numbers of votes to do it.

I suspect that where the investigation is going is towards making people, below Trump, the sole scapegoats. However, I suspect that if Republicans begin to see Trump as a liability, he will be dropped on a dime. Iran Contra and Watergate are examples where some investigators - with differing success - DID follow the cases upward. In both cases, it was against Presidents who had earlier been far more respected than Trump ever was.

However, the removal of Trump -- leads to Pence, who is more of an advocate for the religious right than Trump. He is no better on social issues or the environment.

[C_U_L8R]

12. Ivanka looks like an idiot.

Why does she even bother.

[Achilleaze]

13. republican ongoing War on Women - Assault #MMMCCCLLLxxxVVV-46783815

And of course the republican assault is led by their puny-handed Draft-Dodger & Pussy Grabber-in-Chief.

Deplorable.

[madaboutharry]

29. This is the perfect graphic.

[Lucky Luciano]

15. Of course he did that. nt

[Nitram]

16. What else would you expect the pussy grabber to do?

[onetexan]

17. Exactly

[Brogrizzly]

18. Damn this is maddening, is their not one sane person on the right that will stand up to this loon?

[yuiyoshida]

21. No chance in Hell

When you sign up to be a Right Winger GOP member, you sign up, in your own blood.

[OldRedneck]

19. There must be some mistake.

After all, Ivanka just returned from Germany where she told an international gathering of women that her father was the greatest champion of women's rights ever.

She wouldn't lie, would she??

[Glimmer of Hope]

20. You are so disappointing Ivanka. What good are you?

[yuiyoshida]

22. At this point, all I want to say is...

Fuck all the Trumps, the Republicans and especially FOX NEWS!

[riversedge]

32. Bingo!!!

[yuiyoshida]

33. heh!

[smirkymonkey]

23. I fucking hate him more than anything.

[leftyladyfrommo]

36. Have you noticed that he keeps getting uglier?

I look at his picture now and just can't believe how ugly he is.

[smirkymonkey]

37. Yes, i can't believe how hideous he is.

I don't know if it's because my hatred for him keeps growing or if he acutally IS getting uglier.

[leftyladyfrommo]

38. I know. I can't tell, either.

Everyone in that whole family just looks awful to me.

[riversedge]

41. Trumpy is getting really dumpy!

[WinkyDink]

24. Ivanka will Trumpsplain that this will empower women to take control of their

own destinies, unencumbered by financial and other help.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Trump is a very very amazing supporter of women's rights, ...

or at least the rights of Ivanka.

Ivanka, of course, praises his father for his support of her rights.

[njhoneybadger]

26. I'm thinking the Heritage Foundation is blackmailing tRump,not Putin

[karynnj]

40. Well short of blackmail, they could simply hint that they might not have his back ...

unless he helps their agenda. IF he has done something impeachable or something that even looks impeachable, that signal could be used by them to keep him following their agenda -- especially as he really does not have one.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. No irony here. It's Trump's revenge for the booing of his precious daughter on Monday in Germany.

[titaniumsalute]

28. Yay Ivanka!!

[TheFrenchRazor]

42. if dems don't take a stand on this and make sure the whole country knows it, they're useless. nt