<p>Assistant Attorney General For Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday about the dangers of using Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices in the federal government.</p>
<p>Committee Chairman Eric Schmitt (R-MO) began the hearing by saying that &#8220;For at least the last decade, America&#8217;s civil rights laws have been used not to prohibit discrimination but to institutionalize it&#8230;It slunk in through the backdoor cloaked in bureaucratic double-speak and soothing euphemisms.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dhillon testified that, based on one of President Donald Trump&#8217;s early <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-woke-federal-employees-could-keep-dei-alive-in-defiance-of-trumps-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive orders</a>, her department has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-investigating-more-than-50-universities-for-anti-white-anti-asian-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working</a> to end DEI and antisemitism in the federal government and at other organizations.</p>
<p>She referenced the Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Office for Civil Rights, which recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-finds-harvard-discriminated-against-jewish-students-threatens-funding?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Finds+Harvard+Discriminated+Against+Jewish+Students%2C+Threatens+Funding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparred</a> with Harvard University over antisemitism among students and staff. Dhillon also referenced the federal government&#8217;s legal action against many state governments — including California and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-is-doubling-down-on-dei-in-the-classroom-it-should-focus-on-test-scores-instead?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=As+Oregon+Defies+Trump+On+DEI+In+Schools%2C+Its+Students+Are+Falling+Through+The+Cracks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oregon</a> — which have defied the Trump administration&#8217;s anti-DEI directive.</p>
<p>&#8220;The goal is clear: either DEI will end on its own, or we will kill it,&#8221; Dhillon said.</p>
<p>Ranking Member Peter Welch (D-VT) disagreed with Schmitt and Dhillon, saying &#8220;The question before this Congress is whether we&#8217;re going to save the Civil Rights Division or we&#8217;re going to destroy it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Welch alleged that the Department of Justice, namely the civil rights division that Dhillon leads, operated at the whim of Trump rather than the Constitution.</p>
<p>Welch brought Alabama State Senator Robert Stewart (D) to testify about the Justice Department&#8217;s <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-terminates-environmental-justice-settlement-agreement-advancing-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancellation</a> of funds to install a septic system in poor parts of the state over DEI practices, accusing the department of intentionally harming poor black communities.</p>
<p>Stewart testified that &#8220;DEI initiatives are not preferences or perks. They are attempts to rectify generations of exclusion and ensure equal access to opportunity.&#8221; He continued by saying that &#8216;to eliminate these efforts under the guise of enforcing civil rights is to misinterpret history and undermine justice.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gene Hamilton, the president of America First Legal — a nonprofit aimed in part at eliminating DEI practices — responded later that &#8220;The civil rights division of the Department of Justice does not need to be involved with septic tanks. That is not a civil rights issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) spoke about how he sees the real meaning of DEI. He said that &#8220;When someone says &#8216;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8217; — we&#8217;re talking about quotas.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The American people understand that souls have no color,&#8221; Kennedy added. &#8220;They believe that to a bear we all taste the same — like chicken.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schmitt recently cosponsored a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2037?s=1&amp;r=9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> aimed at strengthening Title VII to include the discrimination against those who express the belief in two genders as unlawful. In February, Schmitt also introduced <a href="https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senator-schmitt-congressman-cloud-introduce-the-dismantle-dei-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> to codify Trump&#8217;s anti-DEI executive orders. Neither bill has reached the Senate floor as of yet.</p>
<p>Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) touted her counter-<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> to Schmitt&#8217;s anti-DEI bills, &#8220;A resolution affirming that diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are fundamental values of the United States and emphasizing the ongoing need to address discrimination and inequality in the workplace, pre-K through 12th grade and higher education systems, government programs, the military, and our society.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My Republican colleagues are intent on teaching young people that people different from them are to be feared, mistrusted, and treated with suspicion,&#8221; Hirono said.</p>
<p>She continued, &#8220;This country was built by slaves dragged here against their will from a continent they would never see again. So we have always struggled with racism and exclusion in our country.&#8221;</p>

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