More Than Half of President Trump’s Global Development Council Have Resigned
John Norris — executive director of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative at the Center for American Progress who served on Hillary Clinton’s transition team — was appointed to the council in 2014. He submitted his resignation letter on Jan. 25, citing the Trump administration’s reinstatement and expansion of the “global gag rule” against family planning services and the administration’s refugee policies.
“I cannot in good conscience provide counsel to an administration that would so cavalierly increase the rate of needless mortality around the globe through an expanded global gag rule that will surely lead to more maternal deaths, more not less abortions, and more cases of HIV/AIDS,” Norris wrote.
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