White House special assistant Katy Talento, White House strategic communications director Mercedes Schlapp and several members of Congress were among those who attended the event at the Library of Congress.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center, arrives for a meeting Wednesday at the European Parliament, at which the center-right European People’s Party suspended his party’s membership in a rare rebuke. By Ariana Eunjung Cha Ariana Eunjung Cha National reporter Email Bio Follow March 21 at 6:00 AM To look at the Twitter feed of Katalin Novák, the Hungarian minister of family affairs, you’d be hard-pressed to find evidence of the global outrage confronting her government.
U.S. Health and Human Services senior adviser Valerie Huber, known for her support of abstinence-only education, was a keynote speaker at the event to promote Orban’s seven-point “Family Protection Action Plan,” designed to promote marriage and families and spawn a baby boom. The display of support from U.S. officials marks a 180-degree pivot from the Obama years, when Hungary was all but ostracized to signal U.S. opposition to Orban’s restrictions on free speech, his anti-immigration policies and his efforts to weaken the nation’s constitutional protections.
Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said Huber attended the event “to promote the administration’s priorities,” but declined to comment beyond confirming her attendance.
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