Military
2024
2024-11-15 During a podcast promoting his book, Pete Hegseth stated “I’m straight up just saying we shouldn’t have women in combat roles”.
https://19thnews.org/2024/11/women-veterans-react-trump-pete-hegseth-combat/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/us/military-women-pete-hegseth-defense-secretary
2025 January
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14004 Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve Their Country in Uniform.
2025 August
2025-08-01 The Trump administration announced its plans to prevent Veterans from accessing abortion care or counseling.
https://reproductiverights.org/5-things-trump-va-abortion-ban/
2025 September
2025-09-24 Pete Hegseth shut down the Women Advisory Council for the military.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/politics/hegseth-shuts-down-women-advisory-military
2026 March
2026-03-27 Pete Hegseth removed two Black and two female officers from a promotion list, leaving some senior military officials to question if women and minorities were being singled out. In the same article presenting this information, the article wrote that Chief of Staff Ricky Buria told the Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll about assigning Major General Antoinette R. Gant command of the Military District of Washington President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5804541-pete-hegseth-pentagon-promotion-list/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-official-told-military-officer-132409515.html