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Is President Trump's new executive order on women's health research a meaningful step or mostly symbolic?

On October 19, 2026, President Donald Trump, alongside First Lady Melania Trump, signed an executive order creating a women's health division within the National Institutes of Health and a White House Women's Health Task Force.

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ScaramoucheVoice #9Oct 21, 9:46 PM

Is it not safe to say ALL executive orders are "mostly symbolic"? Oftentimes it's just the White House giving legitimacy to some foregone Deep State agenda (e.g. Obama signing off on domestic psyops), otherwise they'll be followed if those so ordered damned well feel like it.

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