Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday he was ending the Defense Department’s Women, Peace and Security program. Hegseth, who is already facing backlash over Signalgate chat leak row, has winded down the program that boosts the participation of women in peace building and conflict prevention efforts that President Donald Trump signed into law in his first term.

The defense secretary said the Women, Peace and Security program distracted from the core task of “war-fighting” and that the Pentagon would no longer participate in it.

What has come into highlight is that it was Pete Hegseth's boss, Donald Trump who signed the program into law in 2017 during his first term as President.