Senate Judicial Republicans are calling for accountability for taxpayers who have drafted the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Initiative bill under former President Joe Biden.
Iowa Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Utah’s Mike Leesen, Texas’s Ted Cruz and Florida’s Ashley Moody wrote letters Thursday to the Government’s Office of Accountability (GAO) asking nonpartisan watchdogs to conduct an audit of DOJ’s day practices under the Beden Harris administration. The senator asked them to investigate how much time and money was spent enforcing the time and money that fixed the Biden administration’s executive order across the federal government, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. (Related: FBI whistleblower pushed out under Biden wins the fight to publish documents that will end his career)
“Biden Harris Eo [Executive Order] The GOP Senator wrote to GAO Director Gene Dodaro.Taxpayers deserve to know how much time and money Biden Harris Dozi has spent on these efforts. ”
“Specifically, taxpayers have the right to know how many DOJ employees have been hired to tackle DEIA. [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility] Senators include programs and initiatives, as well as the amount of money spent by the DOJ on these functions, as well as employee supply.
Senate Republicans’ demand for an audit of the Biden administration’s DEI initiative comes as President Donald Trump’s administration moved to roll back Biden’s DEI practices. reference As “illegal and immoral discrimination.”
“[N]All Federal Government entities and entities [under Biden] Submitting an “Equity Action Plan” to detail how DEIS was promoted [sic] “Federal government invasion,” Trump I wrote it With his executive order banning the government DEI initiative on January 20th. “The disclosure of these plans demonstrated enormous public waste and shameful discrimination. It ends today. Americans are committed to serving all who have equal dignity and respect, and to consume valuable taxpayer resources just to make America great.”
WASHINGTON, DC – Dec. 2: The candidate for U.S. Presidential Election Attorney General Pam Bondi will meet with the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman (R-IA) in the building of the Hart Senate Office in DC on December 2, 2024. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee specifically demand that GAO investigate the Biden administration EO Published in June 2021, entitled “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce.”
“As the nation’s largest employer, the federal government must be a model of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility where all employees are treated with dignity and respect,” Biden writes.
EO led to the establishment of a new DEI office in the federal government and new federal spending on the DEI initiative. The GOP Senator cited an education analysis defending parents who found that Biden-Harris DOJ alone spent more than $100 million on promoting the DEI initiative in the K-12 school district.
EO also called for federal agencies to develop individual “strategic plans” to advance DEI priorities. “GAO needs to consider the time and money that DOJ is dedicated to these efforts,” the senator wrote.
Attorney General Pam Bondy is working I’ll restore it Biden DOJ’s DEI practices ban certain DEI practices in educational institutions that implement Trump’s EO and receive private sector and federal funds.
DOJ announced four University of California surveys on Friday, allegedly using DEI practices in its admissions policy.
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