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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue May 2, 2017, 10:36 AM May 2017

Trump administration denies it plans to end Michelle Obama's girl's education program

Source: The Washington Post



By Krissah Thompson May 1 at 10:38 PM

The White House is batting down reports that the Trump administration had planned to scuttle one of Michelle Obama’s signature initiatives.

Hours after CNN reported on an internal Peace Corps email that announced a plan to stop supporting the former first lady’s “Let Girls Learn” program, a White House spokesman said there had been no changes to the initiative.

The cable network’s CNN Films division, which celebrated Obama’s work to improve educational opportunities for girls in developing countries in a documentary last year, reported that Sheila Crowley, acting director of the Peace Corps, sent an email to employees this week shutting down the education campaign.

“Moving forward, we will not continue to use the ‘Let Girls Learn’ brand or maintain a stand-alone program,” Crowley wrote in a message obtained by CNN. The Peace Corps, which had played a key role in promoting the first lady’s initiative, will continue its work to support girls’ education but it is unclear whether Michelle Obama’s branding will remain a central focus.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-trump-administration-ends-michelle-obamas-girls-education-program/2017/05/01/45548da6-2ea7-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html?utm_term=.bf0c21b28006&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

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Trump administration denies it plans to end Michelle Obama's girl's education program (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
The numbers in the budget don't lie. onecaliberal May 2017 #1
Let me guess - they're planning to blame democrats for this one too? Initech May 2017 #2
Am I reading this right? justgamma May 2017 #3
That's what... 2naSalit May 2017 #5
well heaven05 May 2017 #6
FOIA the email. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2017 #4

justgamma

(3,665 posts)
3. Am I reading this right?
Tue May 2, 2017, 11:10 AM
May 2017

They are not ending the program just changing the name so it won't be associated with Michelle Obama?

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
6. well
Tue May 2, 2017, 12:45 PM
May 2017

an AA having her name on something good for people in this world is just too much for the bannons, chumps and millers racist taste. They want NO legacy to remain to be found on the Obama Presidency 100, 50 or even 20 years from now. These are some very hateful white people, males mostly, but kellyconjob is in there plugging away to destroy anything the last POTUS did for everyone, and all very evil to their core. NOTHING benign or normal about these racist, seemingly demonically possessed people except.........exorcism and that probably won't help these very evil people.

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