Speaking at the Detroit NAACP Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner on Sunday night, President Joe Biden championed DEI values, saying they represented the “core strength of America.”
The Daily Wire reported earlier this month that the “Biden administration has launched a sweeping effort to embed the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda throughout the federal bureaucracy, leveraging race and sexuality-based employee associations to push for leftwing ideology within the administrative state.”
“Look, the values of diversity, equity and inclusion are the core strength of America,” Biden said in Detroit. “That’s why I’m proud to have the most diverse administration in history to tap into the full talents of our country. I promised you when I was president I would have an administration that looked more like America, We have more African-American, we have more women, we have more minorities in our administration than any other administration in all of history. That’s why we’re doing so damn well.”
As far as Biden’s administration “doing so damn well,” surveys conducted by The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Siena College released last week showed former President Donald Trump leading Biden in five of six swing states. “As three-quarters of likely voters in these six battleground states say the economy is no better than only fair or poor, large majorities in each state trust Donald Trump to do a better job on the country’s financial well-being than Joe Biden,” a Siena College poll synopsis stated.
In early May, it was reported that roughly 40 U.S. Secret Service agents signed a petition calling for a congressional investigation into whether DEI policies have created a national security threat.
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Biden’s June 2021 executive order on “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the federal workforce” ordered the bureaucracy to allow for the creation of employee resource groups. The groups, described by the government as “spaces where employees of similar identities can talk freely amongst themselves and come together based on shared identities,” were supposed to “eliminate” the “barriers to equity.”
It advertises several invite-only groups, including for Latinx, Working While Black, and even one called Not Your Dude, which is intended for “cis women, trans women, trans men, non-binary people, and those who are otherwise marginalized (i.e., non-hegemonic masculine folks).”
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the top intelligence agency that oversees the CIA, NSA, FBI, and elements of the Pentagon, explained in a document obtained by The Daily Wire that affinity groups led a race-based leadership development program. The African American Affinity Network and the Latino Intelligence Network hosted a leadership summit where attendees “learned about unique opportunities at other agencies” and were invited to a workshop on building a professional brand.
The document also shows that employee resource groups within the intelligence community for those who are Asian or Pacific Islander have influenced how America’s intelligence apparatus refers to our foreign adversaries. The employee organizations “have been particularly successful in creating a new framework and language guidelines for how we talk about the People’s Republic of China,” the document obtained by The Daily Wire reads.
At the National Security Agency (NSA), there are 10 different employee resource groups, the majority of which are based on employees’ racial or ethnic backgrounds. “These employee-led groups are composed of individuals who work together to foster an inclusive and unified culture,” the NSA states. “Individuals may join ERGs as either a member or ally.”
Spencer Lindquist contributed to this article.
