A global aid program championed by Ivanka Trump has serious problems, a report finds.
Ivanka Trump listening to President Donald J. Trump during a meeting in April 2020.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
April 1, 2021
One of Ivanka Trump’s top initiatives a legislative overhaul of programs assisting small businesses run by women around the world was so haphazardly managed by a federal agency that an independent watchdog was unable to determine whether it actually worked.
In a report released on Thursday, the Government Accountability Office found that programs funded through the Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act, which Ms. Trump, the eldest daughter of former President Donald J. Trump, helped usher through Congress in late 2018, were deeply flawed and hampered by poor oversight.
Ivanka Trump s women s empowerment program slammed in government report
The rollout of programs funded through a 2018 women s empowerment bill failed at one agency.
Ivanka didn t directly oversee the program but did promote her role in expanding aid to female workers.
A policy program championed by Ivanka Trump, and aimed at assisting female-led small businesses around the globe, suffered from such poor agency oversight that the Government Accountability Office was unable to conclude how successful the program was or even if it had worked at all.
Former President Donald Trump s eldest daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, helped promote the policy program and ushered the bill through Congress.
Ivanka Trump s women s initiative branded a failure by US government auditors
2 Apr, 2021 05:28 AM
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An initiative championed by Ivanka Trump has been branded a failure. Photo / Getty Images
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By: Natalie Brown
The women s empowerment initiative championed by Ivanka Trump throughout her father s presidency has been branded a failure, in a damning new report by America s Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Donald Trump s 39-year-old eldest daughter, former senior adviser and heir apparent – who is supposedly working to redeem and rebrand herself as she sets her eyes on the White House – spent most of her time in Washington claiming to be working on behalf of women both at home and abroad.
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