Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, a top surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris, went onto ABC’s The View this week and made the false statement that former President Donald Trump doesn’t want to be “around strong, intelligent women.” He tried to walk it back the next day because it was proven quickly to simply not be true.
I saw firsthand the Trump administration consistently elevated strong intelligent women, who were also mothers to young children, in senior roles in the White House, including Brooke Rollins, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Mercedes Schlapp, Kayleigh McEnany and others. (RELATED: CALLISTA GINGRICH: Melania Trump — Just What The Country Needs)
In 2016, candidate Donald J. Trump hired Kellyanne Conway, making her the first female campaign manager to run a winning presidential campaign. Susie Wiles has served the last three plus years as Trump’s campaign manager. Trump appointed Linda McMahon as the co-chair of his current transition operation and Lara Trump leads as co-chair of the RNC.
Moreover, former President Trump selected a running mate who is the supportive husband of a highly successful strong intelligent lawyer and mom of three young children.
According to the radical Left, this election will be about choice, but they only mean choice when pregnant, not in the other parts of our lives.
We want choice in where our children can attend school and who teaches them.
We want choice through reasonable prices for gas and groceries.
We want choice around the kind of car we can drive, even if it happens to run on gas.
We want choice on what vaccines are put into our bodies.
We want choice over how, when, and whether we work outside the home.
We want choice to be able to practice or not practice our religion freely. Basically, we want a choice over how we live our lives.
And women who decide to focus on their homes and families are celebrated for those contributions as well and have the economic prosperity to be able to make that choice. Under the Trump administration, worker wages increased, and benefits for working parents expanded. Trump instituted the first-ever paid parental leave program for federal employees.
There is no question that women and families fared better under President Trump. Gas and groceries cost less. The border was more secure, and fewer women and children were being trafficked across it. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, or Trump tax cuts, nearly doubled the standard deduction and the child tax credit while lowering tax rates, saving thousands of dollars for lower- and middle-income families. And women’s sports provided fair opportunities to girls and young women pursuing their dreams without men on the field.
This year, America is looking for policy solutions that have evaded too many people for far too long. While the Left aims to scare women into thinking the hands of time will be turned back against them, those paying attention during the Trump administration’s tenure know better.
The policies implemented by the Trump Administration support strong intelligent women in the workplace and at home.
Jessica Hart Steinmann is the mother of one with another baby on the way. She serves as General Counsel & Director of Litigation at America First Policy Institute and previously served as a senior official at the Department of Justice under President Donald J. Trump.
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