Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) reintroduced a bill on Thursday that would permanently eliminate top diversity positions at the Department of Defense, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.
The Restoring Military Focus Act would permanently eliminate the Chief Diversity Officer and Senior Advisers for Diversity and Inclusion positions, which were established by the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
While President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have ordered that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) be banned from the military, Roy’s bill would codify it into law so it could not be reversed in the future under a new administration.
Roy said in a statement to Breitbart News:
For far too long, radical progressive Democrats under the Biden Administration have been allowed to turn our military into a social experiment. I am thankful that President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have taken decisive action to restore the focus of the Pentagon and rid the Department of the radical DEI agenda.
However, it is imperative that Republicans in Congress take action to make these changes permanent to ensure that no future Administration can indoctrinate our men and women in uniform with this divisive ideology.
Former President Joe Biden and former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made DEI a top priority at the Pentagon, appointing the first chief diversity officer, a black veteran named Bishop Garrison, who had called Trump a “racist” and attacked his donors. […]
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