Mandel Ngan
President Joe Biden, flanked by the nominees to positions as four-star generals Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost (l) and Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson, speaks Tuesday on International Women’s Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.

The president announced Tuesday that he would more than double the $1.2 billion spent on “foreign assistance programs that promote gender equality worldwide” to $2.6 billion.