Over the past decade, the United States built something rare in Washington: a bipartisan foreign policy success story. The Women, Peace, and Security Act, passed by Congress in 2017, made America the first country in the world to turn decades of global research into law, recognizing that when women are included in peace and security efforts, nations are more stable, conflicts are shorter, and democracies are stronger.
Now, that bipartisan agenda is going dark overnight.
The current administration has failed to produce the legally required report on WPS implementation due by Oct. 31, one of the few congressional mandates that directly connects gender equality to national security.