The Trump administration will expand the “Mexico City rule,” which bars recipients of United States foreign aid from promoting abortion, to include a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion policies or “radical gender ideologies,” Vice President JD Vance announced on Friday.
Mr. Vance made the announcement, which had been expected, during a speech at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. The policy change is the Trump administration’s latest attack on what President Trump and his aides call “woke ideology” at home and abroad. It could affect more than $30 billion in foreign assistance.
Mr. Vance said that the change would cover all U.S. nonmilitary assistance to other nations.
The pre-existing Mexico City policy bars federal dollars from going to any foreign group that provides or promotes abortion, even if those programs are paid for with other sources of financing.
Mr. Vance said that it had been the policy of the Biden administration to “export abortion and radical gender ideology all over the world.”
The March for Life is an anti-abortion event held annually in Washington since 1973.
Michael Crowley covers the State Department and U.S. foreign policy for The Times. He has reported from nearly three dozen countries and often travels with the secretary of state.
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