Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday he was ending the Defense Department’s Women, Peace and Security program, which he termed a “Biden initiative” and that was enacted by President Donald Trump in his first term,

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday announced he had ended the Pentagon’s “Women, Peace and Security” (WPS) program, which had been signed into law by

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved to cancel a program that promoted the participation of women in national security, claiming the initiative is “woke,” “divisive” and distracts troops.