Trump discounts, the American Agency for International Development, threatens the women’s empowerment program that Ivanka defended

President Trump and Eileon Musk An attempt by the United States Agency for International Development, which dates back to contracts Millions of dollars in US financing are likely to end the economic empowerment of women all over the world, including the programs that he defended during the first term of Mr. Trump by his daughter Ivanka.

While Mr. Trump’s attempt to put all agency workers on vacation Ten currently In the battle of the American Court, a temporary stop Foreign Minister Marco Rubio ordered At the end of January on all new US foreign assistance programs funded by the Foreign Ministry and the United States Agency for International Development He is still in place.

The Global Development and prosperity initiative for women aims to help 50 million women realize their economic potential “by 2025, an issue that the president’s daughter described at that time as a decisive field that Republicans and Democrats can find a common ground.

Lillian Achom was a project manager of AFCHIX, a women’s network of technology, which was part of the Women Connect Challenge at the United States Agency for International Development. In 2019, she was invited to the White House to meet Ivanka Trump, who was then adviser to her father, and to attend the WDP Declaration.

To coincide with launch, Ivanka Trump books An article in Wall Street Journal said that WDP will work, “for the first time coordinating America’s commitment to one of the most resources that reduce value in the developing world-talent, ambitious and genius of women.”

Achom was one of nine of the gave to the White House, where President Trump signed the memorandum at the Oval House on February 7, 2019. The management of Mr. Trump pledged $ 50 million to WDP-to allocate it by the United States Agency for International Development.

Achom CBS News told Monday that although the president had made supportive comments on the initiative, Ivanka “was really cared about”, saying that the president’s daughter was really concerned about women’s development and economic empowerment.

“I can see that she really loves our success stories, and stories about how women affect societies all over the world,” said Ashum.

The first Trump administration later He said The program reached 12 million women in its first year. The Biden administration continued to work in the framework of the Gender Equality Fund and Equality, which invested $ 300 million in direct resources and another $ 200 million of indirect financing between 2021 and 2023, according to the US Agency for International Development Agency submitted to CBS News.

Ivanka Trump has not immediately responded to the CBS news request to comment on the program or the US Agency’s International Development Funds.

A Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman was asked about the WDP program, noting the CBS News Rubio review of foreign assistance programs, “to ensure efficiency and consistent with US foreign policy under the US agenda.”

The spokesman said that the administration was “reviewing all the exemptions provided” by various programs and employees in an attempt to maintain the flow, and they said that the results will be connected to “transparently.”

One Focus From the WDP program, women’s arrival in technology, which still fails for men worldwide. According to the White House documents since that time, more than 1.7 billion women in low and medium -income countries have not had a mobile phone, and they were less likely to use the Internet via mobile phone.

Achom explained that rural societies in Africa were less able to reach new and emerging technologies, due to the cost of the Internet and devices, but also because medical bills, education and food are still priority.

In northern Uganda, where the spread of HIV among women and children was historically higher than other parts of the country, additional Financing the US Agency for International Development presented through the aid relief program, PePfarSocieties gave access to the continuous supplies of anti -viral drugs. Ashoum said this support is limited by the government of Uganda because of its restricted money.

She said: “The US International Development Agency has dealt with those in society like their friend,” she said. “Like their first friend, I must say, because they visited them, they gave them the grants, not only to support them with medical facilities and reach medicine, but to reach economic empowerment.”

Achom said, the US Agency’s financing for International Development was fixed and reliable, unlike some other programs, and the closure of the programs funded by the agency, Achom will affect more than just women’s arrival in technology.

“The ability of the entire society to get out of poverty will slow down or endanger,” she told CBS News.