Trumps fetish with repealing and replacing everything Obama's Admin did is sad!

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While aspects of the initiative's programming will continue, employees have been told to stop using the "Let Girls Learn" name and were told that, as a program unto itself, "Let Girls Learn" was ending.

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tarnishing and ruining Obamas legacy

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"The Peace Corps continues to prioritize girls' education and empowerment programming,"

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"Girls' education and empowerment has been a hallmark of our work over the past 56 years

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International Day of the Girl provides us the opportunity to take stock of this Administration’s progress around Let Girls Learn, an initiative that employs a whole-of-government approach to helping adolescent girls around the world get a quality education that empowers them to reach their full potential. As we look towards the future, it is clear that educating girls is among the most strategic and effective investments we can make to achieve our foreign policy and sustainable development goals, which is why the President and First Lady launched Let Girls Learn in March 2015. This Administration’s holistic approach towards girls’ education includes investments of more than $1 billion dollars in new and ongoing programming by the U.S. Government in more than 50 countries, and has established nearly 100 private sector partnerships to promote adolescent girls’ education around the world. To continue these efforts, the President’s FY 2017 Budget requested more than $100 million in new funds for Let Girls Learn.

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47 of the nation’s 73 federal IGs signed an open letter decrying the Obama administration’s stonewalling of their investigations. The White House, they reported, had placed “serious limitations on access to records that have recently impeded the work” of IGs at the Peace Corps, the EPA, and the Department of Justice, and jeopardized their “ability to conduct our work thoroughly, independently, and in a timely manner.”

While defanging Washington’s most effective guardians of the public’s trust and tax dollars, the Obama administration has stocked the government with whitewash puppies who’ve compromised the independence of IG offices at the Department of Homeland Security, the Interior Department, and DOJ. At the rotten core of the war on federal watchdogs: Obama’s Undermining Justice Department, which has distorted and destroyed the plain meaning of “all records” to sabotage the IGs’ access to damning agency documents relevant to their probes.

Earlier this year in congressional testimony, DOJ IG Michael Horowitz exposed the Obama administration’s “continued refusal by the Department to recognize that Section 6(a) of the Inspector General Act authorizes the DOJ OIG to obtain access to all records in the Department’s possession that we need in order to perform our oversight responsibilities” as the office investigates the IRS witch hunts, the Fast and Furious scandal, and systemic public-disclosure evasions. The FBI has repeatedly run out the clock to thwart IG document-production requests and unilaterally claimed power to pre-screen and limit records disclosures.

In July, the White House arrogantly announced that IGs needed to secure permission from the heads of agencies they were investigating to gain access to grand jury, wiretap, and fair-credit information. Horowitz noted this week that “pending legislation in the Senate, S. 579, and the House, H.R. 2395, would restore IG independence and empower IGs to conduct the kind of rigorous, independent and thorough oversight that taxpayers expect.” Let me remind you that this is the same administration that: Obama has stonewalled the special inspector general for TARP, responsible for monitoring hundreds of billions of dollars of federal funds spent on bailout programs.

Smeared and sacked AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin after he blew the whistle on financial corruption and sexual misconduct by Sacramento mayor and Obama crony Kevin Johnson. Forced the abrupt retirement of Amtrak’s longtime inspector general, Fred Weiderhold Jr. after he met with Amtrak officials to discuss the results of an independent report by the Washington, D.C., law firm Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, which concluded that the “independence and effectiveness” of the Amtrak inspector general’s office “are being substantially impaired” by the agency’s Law Department.

Amtrak bosses had effectively gagged their budgetary watchdogs from communicating with Congress without preapproval; required that all Amtrak documents be “pre-screened” (and in some cases redacted) before being turned over to the inspector general’s office; took control over the IG’s $5 million portion of federal stimulus dollars; and regularly retained outside law firms shielded from IG reach.

Stonewalled the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program responsible for monitoring hundreds of billions of dollars of federal funds spent on bailout programs. Obama Treasury Department officials initially refused to provide documents on the bailout-funded AIG bonus program and ran to the DOJ for cover.

Bullied budget watchdogs at the Office of Personnel Management, who received a “not so veiled threat” from the Office of Management and Budget to refrain from voicing any concerns about Obama’s 2010 budget to Congress. According to then–OPM IG Patrick McFarland, an OMB staffer threatened to “make life miserable for us” if McFarland’s office dared to exercise provisions in the Inspector General Act noting any financial impacts that might “substantially inhibit” the watchdog agency’s ability to do its job.

Just last week, the Veterans Administration IG issued a report detailing horrific neglect and mismanagement in the Phoenix VA system, where a whopping 45 percent of vets with bladder, prostate, and urinary-tract problems were denied or delayed care over the last two years. Medical records are missing or misfiled. At least five patients died as a result of the VA’s dereliction of duty to those who served and sacrificed.

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