WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump delivered for American women on Monday. At the White House, the President signed the “Advancing Women’s Health to Improve Outcomes in All Phases of Life” executive order, an initiative led by the First Lady. “Today, we’re taking historic action to promote women’s health through all phases of life,” President Trump said.

The President laid out the problem plainly. “Despite amazing advances in medical science, many diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect women remain chronically understudied,” he said. “These are mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and under the Trump Administration, we’re going to get them the care and support that they need and deserve.”

The order directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a new Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health, and gives the NIH 90 days to do it. “That’s a big deal,” the President said. “Think of it, a women’s health division. And it hasn’t been done, but it’s been done under Trump.” He gave the credit to the First Lady, who told him no such division existed. “When I heard about it, I said, are you sure they don’t have that?” he said. “She’s very smart and she gets it.”

The order also creates the White House Women’s Health Task Force to mobilize the entire federal government. It is co-chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the White House Chief of Staff, and its members include the Secretaries of War, Agriculture, Labor, Education and Veterans Affairs along with the heads of the FDA, CDC, NIH, ARPA-H, CMS and EPA. The task force holds its first working session Monday afternoon.

According to the White House fact sheet, the work targets diseases and conditions that have never gotten the research and clinical attention they deserve, from heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer’s to osteoporosis, endometriosis, infertility, maternal health and menopause. The order rescinds the prior administration’s women’s health initiatives so the focus moves beyond research and onto better care for women and girls.

It builds on a record the White House spells out: TrumpRx.gov has saved patients more than $700 million and saves families more than $2,000 per cycle of fertility drugs on average, and Moms.gov now supports new and expecting mothers. Promises made, promises kept, for every woman in America.