One of the largest hospitals in Georgia is letting employees know that Christmas Eve is no longer an observed holiday because its commitment to &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8221; means it must recognize Juneteenth instead.
Emory Healthcare, a part of Emory University and the “most <a href="https://www.emoryhealthcare.org/about">comprehensive</a> health system in Georgia,” told employees that starting in 2024 they will have to use paid time off to observe Christmas Eve.
“Thanks to your feedback, the Executive Leadership Team and I have decided to make Juneteenth (June 19th) an EHC observed holiday,” the hospital&#8217;s CEO Joon S. Lee announced. “Beginning January 2024, we will remove Christmas Eve from our holiday calendar and replace it with Juneteenth.”
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The memo explains “diversity, equity and inclusion at Emory Healthcare is about creating an environment of true belonging for our patients and team members, while ensuring equitable outcomes for all,” and that, although Christmas Eve will no longer be a recognized holiday, “team members will still have the flexibility and option to use paid time off for Christmas Eve.”
It contends “diversity, equity and inclusion at Emory Healthcare is about creating an environment of true belonging for our patients and team members, while ensuring equitable outcomes for all.”
The memo goes on to explain the decision, reading “For each observed holiday, our clinics and business offices close, which means our patients are unable to make clinic appointments for those days. To minimize impact to patient care, we will not be adding another paid holiday to our calendar.”
Some Americans have lamented what they see as a decline in the celebration of Christmas and the general secularization of the holiday. One 2021 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211223143522/https://www.fdu.edu/news/belief-in-war-on-christmas-bigger-than-ever-nationally/">poll</a> from Fairleigh Dickinson University found that 37% of Americans believe that there is a “war on Christmas,” marking a significant jump from the 29% who said the same in 2013.
Juneteenth was <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/06/17/remarks-by-president-biden-at-signing-of-the-juneteenth-national-independence-day-act/">established</a> as a federal holiday by President Joe Biden on June 17, 2021, who declared that the holiday reminds us of “the ongoing work to … bring true equity and racial justice into American society.” He went on to remark “this day doesn’t just celebrate the past; it calls for action today.” It recognizes the date in 1865 that news of the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the United States reached Texas.
Other Democrat officials have seized on Juneteenth as a tool for “black liberation,” which, according to Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), includes reparations, an end to the war on drugs, and teaching “the truth about white supremacy in our country.”
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It’s Juneteenth AND reparations.
It’s Juneteenth AND end police violence + the War on Drugs.
It’s Juneteenth AND end housing + education apartheid.
It’s Juneteenth AND teach the truth about white supremacy in our country.
Black liberation must be prioritized.
&mdash; Cori Bush (@CoriBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1670797693407354882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Democratic legislators in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> are pushing to establish diversity audits of gubernatorial appointments.
Such audits would occur with the passage of their proposed legislation: Senate Bill 702, which would require an annual report on the demographics of individuals appointed by the governor to serve on the over 400 boards and commissions in the state. The annual diversity audits would include an appointee’s age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, disability status, race, region, party affiliation, veteran status, and sexual orientation.
The bill is steadily advancing; it <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB702" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> out of committee last week.
State Senator Monique Limón introduced the bill. She held a press conference with the California Senate Democrats on Wednesday to advocate for the legislation’s passage.
Limón said during the press conference that the goal of the bill is to reach equity in appointments and “achieve a California that looks like us.”
“I truly hope that this year, the governor will agree that the collection of gubernatorial appointee demographic data is a critical step to achieve and maintain geographic, gender, and ethnic equity at the executive level,” said Limón.
Limón predicted that the audits would directly result in greater diversity in gubernatorial appointments.
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Disparities in representation at the top level aren’t only found in private firms but also at the state level. 
Despite making up 39.1% of the state population, Latinos are only 18.4% of executive appointees. My bill, SB 702 will help us close these gaps. <a href="https://twitter.com/HOPELatinas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HOPELatinas</a> <a href="https://t.co/ptwlqjB11U">https://t.co/ptwlqjB11U</a>
&mdash; Senator Monique Limón (@MoniqueLimonCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoniqueLimonCA/status/1697352996269785352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Also present at Wednesday’s press conference were representatives of Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE), who sponsored the press conference, as well as the University of California, Los Angeles Latino Policy &amp; Politics Institute Researchers (UCLA LPPI), the Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE), the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, and the National Women’s Political Caucus.
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Although Limón expressed confidence in the ability of both chambers to pass the bill, she told reporters that she wasn’t sure whether the governor would support it.
Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a version of the <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB702" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> during the last legislative session in 2021. That version was more expansive in its requirements than the current version; it required not only the demographics of appointed individuals, but the demographics of rejected candidates as well.
That last version of the bill also required the governor to create an 11-member working group of community activists and academics last year to “discuss and make recommendations on the most effective way to ensure the state’s leadership on boards and commissions reflects the diversity in age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, disability status, region, veteran status, and sexual orientation, among other things, that are representative of the state.”
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One of the best ways Californians can represent their communities at the state level is through state boards and commissions. Bringing transparency to our gubernatorial appointments ensures California is leading the way, and reflecting our state’s true diversity. <a href="https://t.co/qw9yxDVaBK">pic.twitter.com/qw9yxDVaBK</a>
&mdash; Senator Monique Limón (@MoniqueLimonCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoniqueLimonCA/status/1699478107818975396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The original version of the bill earned the <a href="https://www.events-latinas.org/calikeme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support</a> of many progressive organizations: in addition to HOPE, CAUSE, and UCLA LPPI, the bill had the backing of Action and Equality for Employees with Disabilities (ACSED), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) California Action, Alliance for a Better Community, Asians and Pacific Islanders for LGBTQ Equality (API Equality-LA), California Black Chamber of Commerce, Centro Community Hispanic Association (CHA), Compton Advocates, Courage California, The Campaign for College Opportunity, Latina Coalition Silicon Valley, Latinas Contra Cancer, Latino Corporate Directors Association, Latino Donor Collaborative, Latino Network, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP), Los Angeles Urban League, LULAC, Mana de San Diego, MILPA Collective, NALEO Education Fund, St. Joseph Center, UC Student Association, and The Unity Council.

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A Maui land company said its request for water to help fight the wildfire that raged last week on the island was delayed during critical hours by a state agency that first had to consult with local farmers. 
The West Maui Land Company, which manages agricultural and residential subdivisions and water jurisdictions, alleged in a letter sent to Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) Deputy Director Kaleo Manuel that the government agency delayed its request for hours and by the time the request was granted, it was too late, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maui-company-says-request-water-fight-wildfire-delayed-several-hours-govt-consulted-farmers">reported</a>. The death toll from the fires hit 111 and included children, but much of the burn area still needs to be searched as hundreds of people remain missing. 
Glenn Tremble of the West Maui Land Company said he made the initial request for the state agency to divert water from streams on August 8 as the fire spread through the town of Lahaina, but hours went by before he heard anything, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/us/hawaii-diverting-water-delay-maui-fires/index.html">according</a> to CNN. 
“We anxiously awaited the morning knowing that we could have made more water available to (the fire department) if our request had been immediately approved,” Tremble wrote in the letter. “We cannot know whether filling our reservoirs at 1:00 p.m. (as opposed to not at all) would have changed the headlines when dawn broke… We know that we need to act faster during an emergency.”
Manuel was criticized earlier this week for past comments on “water equity” as a resurfaced clip spread on social media showing the deputy director discussing how water “requires true conversations about equity.”  
&#8220;My motto has always been: let water connect us, not divide us,&#8221; Manuel says in the clip. &#8220;We can share it, but it requires true conversations about equity.&#8221;
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M. Kaleo Manuel, the Hawaiian official in charge of water resources is under fire for refusing to divert water from streams and release it to quell the raging Maui fires explains that water must never be used, but revered. <a href="https://t.co/fc5lqZGS0Z">pic.twitter.com/fc5lqZGS0Z</a>
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The state’s website says Manuel &#8220;has focused on bringing planning and indigenous knowledge to the fields of water advocacy and management in Hawai‘i.” 
The West Maui Land Company blasted CWRM in the letter, writing, &#8220;We are all devastated. No one is happy there was water in the streams while our homes, our businesses, our lands, and our lives were reduced to ash.” 
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Manuel has been reassigned to a different division, according to a press release from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, which insisted that the reassignment was not for anything he did wrong, Fox News reported. 
&#8220;DLNR is re-deploying First Deputy of the Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM), Kaleo Manuel, to a different DLNR division,&#8221; the press release said. &#8220;The purpose of this deployment is to permit CWRM and the Department to focus on the necessary work to assist the people of Maui recover from the devastation of wildfires.&#8221;
&#8220;This deployment does not suggest that First Deputy Manuel did anything wrong. DLNR encourages the media and the public to avoid making judgments until all the facts are known.&#8221;
Hawaiian Electric is also under <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hawaii-utility-pursued-green-energy-goals-while-fire-mitigation-projects-were-delayed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrutiny</a> for allegedly slow-walking modernization and repairs of its electrical grid as it devoted resources to building out the utility’s green energy network. The state attorney general <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/hawaii-attorney-general-asking-third-party-organization-assess-wildfir-rcna100493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it will use a third party to investigate how state and local government agencies responded to the devastating fires.

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Eight of the nine 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls presented their vision for America in Iowa last <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?528336-1/republican-presidential-hopefuls-speak-iowa-fundraiser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday</a>. Yet, none proposed a policy that could stop or reverse the terrible effects caused by George Soros&#8217;s &#8220;compassionate&#8221; initiative of decriminalizing and legalizing drugs, which began with marijuana.
In his 2004 book &#8220;The Bubble of American Supremacy&#8221; Soros <a href="https://www.georgesoros.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/the_bubble_of_american_surpremacy-chap-2-2017_10_05.pdf">stated:</a>
<blockquote>&#8220;When I decided to extend the operations of my Open Society Foundation to the United States, I chose drug policy as one of the first fields of engagement. I felt that drug policy was the area in which the United States was in the greatest danger of violating the principles of open society.&#8221;</blockquote>
Following Soros&#8217;s lead, marijuana campaigners claim that legalizing the drug is &#8220;a necessary <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/where-is-marijuana-legal-a-guide-to-marijuana-legalization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social justice</a> initiative,&#8221; because, they say, marijuana use led to the mass incarceration of black and brown people. Thus, in addition to changing state laws to allow the use, possession, production, and selling of marijuana, provisions have been added to expunge and vacate low-level marijuana convictions.
Some states, like New Jersey, issued regulations to increase the number of cannabis businesses run by people with prior convictions for marijuana offenses, who were &#8220;most harmed by the failed <a href="https://www.marijuanamoment.net/new-jersey-regulators-will-exclusively-accept-certain-marijuana-licenses-from-social-equity-applicants-for-one-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">war on drugs</a>,&#8221; emphasizing that &#8220;social equity&#8221; does not necessarily include businesses owned by women, minorities, or disabled veterans.
When Soros debuted on the American domestic political scene in 1993, he was on his way to turning drug use in America — first with marijuana — into the relaxing, joyful &#8220;soma&#8221; that author Aldous Huxley described in &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brave New World</a>.&#8221;
To test the American public&#8217;s resolve to keep long-held moral values and attitudes, and especially the resilience of his adoptive country&#8217;s legal system, he needed an illegal and unwelcomed behavior that could be successfully challenged. He chose laws controlling the use of illicit drugs.
The savvy international currency speculator chose well. He speculated that once marijuana was legalized, many Americans would be willing to use illicit drugs. He was right.
A national Gallup Poll revealed that more than <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1657/illegal-drugs.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">75%</a> of Americans rejected drug legalization when Soros began his efforts in America. The public viewed the issue through the lens of common sense. It realizes being under the influence of mind-altering substances is the problem, <a href="https://acdemocracy.org/can-we-afford-to-give-up-the-drug-war/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not the drug laws</a>. But Soros&#8217;s sponsorship unified the pro-drug groups, created a movement, and, more importantly, gave the drug legalization campaign a veneer of respectability and credibility.
Marijuana, similar to heroin and LSD, is still classified as a Schedule I drug under the <a href="https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Controlled Substances Act</a> with “high potential for abuse.” Most opiates, and even fentanyl, are classified under Schedule II, since they are prescribed for symptoms such as pain and anxiety.
The millions of dollars invested in the marijuana lobby have paved the way for the free use of the so-called &#8220;medicinal&#8221; marijuana products. When it comes to the multidimensional harm caused by marijuana use, the lobbyists, who claim to work in the name of compassion and social justice, are joined by the willful ignorance of politicians. It’s been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/health/children-eating-edibles-weed.html">reported</a> that <a href="https://cfah.org/cbd-legal-states/">CBD oil,</a> edibles, and THC gummies are sometimes laced with other addictive drugs, including fentanyl, and are occasionally consumed by young children and pets, with<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/virginia-mother-charged-murder-4-year-old-son-dies-eating-thc-gummies-rcna53449"> deadly results</a>.
By October 2022, facing no organized opposition to the well-funded, pro-drug propaganda, the marijuana lobby convinced 68% of the public to support the drug&#8217;s legalization according to Gallup. As of May 23, 2023, <a href="https://www.marijuanamoment.net/dem-senators-cannabis-banking-concerns-newsletter-may-23-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marijuana Moment</a>, the movement&#8217;s major online news and support website was &#8220;tracking more than 1,000 cannabis, psychedelics and <a href="https://www.marijuanamoment.net/bills/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drug policy bills</a>” in state legislatures and Congress this year alone.
But evidence of the harm caused by marijuana is still being swept under the rug. As of May 2023, <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/marijuana-laws-by-state-where-is-weed-legal/">37 states</a> have passed laws approving the &#8220;medical&#8221; use of marijuana, while 23 states made the &#8220;recreational&#8221; use of marijuana legal. Many states along with the District of Columbia are also working to decriminalizing low-level marijuana <a href="https://www.mpp.org/issues/decriminalization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">possession</a>. Add to that an influx of illegal immigrants and economic challenges, and the remaining states will be tempted to legalize pot in order to find new revenue in the multibillion-dollar marijuana industry.
Proving Soros wrong, again, the illegal marijuana market is <a href="https://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/2023/03/27/marijuanas-black-market-is-smoking-the-competition/70053999007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">growing exponentially,</a> bringing with it expansive marijuana farms damaging the environment, an increase in violent crime, and homelessness.
Unless an aggressive counter-legalization campaign is mounted, marijuana and other dangerous drugs will be legalized in 2024, even if Joe Biden loses in the Presidential election.
The Republican presidential candidates did mention high crime rates and even fentanyl last Saturday, but not one connected the chaos facing the nation to Soros&#8217;s drug legalization scheme that aims to dope the population into oblivion.
While Republican candidates referred to Ronald Reagan, not one suggested using Nancy Reagan&#8217;s successful campaign slogan of “Just Say No.&#8221;
Rachel Ehrenfeld is the director of the American Center for Democracy and author of <a href="https://acdemocracy.org/the-soros-agenda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Soros Agenda.</a>
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Biden administration is hell-bent on stopping <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate change</a>, or so they say, and willing to force American taxpayers to shell out $50 trillion over the years to help them do it. How exactly will all that cash help the planet? Well, they can&#8217;t answer that, but rest assured it will help the U.S. restore &#8220;environmental justice,&#8221; the president&#8217;s team tells us — which is really code for more &#8220;racial equity&#8221; efforts.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-dont-know-do-you-gop-senator-corners-biden-lackey-on-climate-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, President Joe Biden&#8217;s Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk was unable to explain to Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) how or why the U.S. going carbon-neutral would help the planet stave off global warming.
“If you could answer my question,” Kennedy said, “If we spent $50 TRILLION to become carbon neutral in the United States of America by 2050, you’re the Deputy Secretary of Energy, give me your estimate of how much is that going to reduce world temperatures?”
“So first of all, it’s a net cost,” Turk said. “It’s what benefits we’re having from getting our act together and reducing — all of those climate benefits — we’re seeing —”
“Let me ask again,” Kennedy said. “Maybe I’m being — maybe I’m not being clear. If we spent $50 TRILLION to become carbon neutral by 2050 in the United States of America, how much is that going to reduce world temperatures?”
Turk stammered some more, saying that it&#8217;s a global problem. He was never able to definitively respond to Kennedy&#8217;s query.
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KENNEDY: &quot;If we spent $50 TRILLION to become carbon neutral by 2050 in the United States of America, how much is that going to reduce world temperatures?&quot;
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While Turk figures out the answer to that question, the rest of the government has been ordered to mobilize into a vehicle to combat so-called &#8220;environmental justice.&#8221;
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In late April, Biden <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-executive-order-require-agencies-make-environmental-justice-part-mission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an executive</a> order to &#8220;direct agencies to address gaps in science and data to better understand and prevent the cumulative impacts of pollution on people’s health. It will create a new Office of Environmental Justice in the White House to coordinate all environmental justice efforts across the federal government. And it will require agencies to notify nearby communities in the event of a release of toxic substances from a federal facility.&#8221;
It also ordered the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/21/fact-sheet-president-biden-signs-executive-order-to-revitalize-our-nations-commitment-to-environmental-justice-for-all/#:~:text=The%20Executive%20Order%20directs%20agencies%20to%20identify%20and%20address%20gaps,more%20publicly%20accessible%20to%20communities." target="_blank" rel="noopener">government to recognize</a> that &#8220;racism is a fundamental driver of environmental injustice.&#8221;
Can you guess what comes next? That&#8217;s right, redistribution of tax dollars based on racial identities and other immutable characteristics as part of the solution to end climate change. It seems that the tenets of &#8220;environmental justice&#8221; aren’t so different from the policies to end &#8220;systemic racism.&#8221;
In fact, you might even suspect that the environmental justice executive order is just another way for the Biden administration to squeeze in more &#8220;equity&#8221; efforts. And if the U.S. is spending $50 trillion on the effort to make America green, that&#8217;s a whole lot of wealth that can be spread around.
It may not lower the temperature of the Earth, but Biden&#8217;s climate change fight will certainly be used to grow the government and be used as another avenue to further entrench the principles of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/turned-government-funded-racism-into-an-art-biden-creates-army-of-equity-bureaucrats-across-the-federal-government-with-latest-executive-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory in American society</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> issued an executive order on Friday compelling the entire <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal</a> government to focus on addressing “environmental justice.”
The White House contended in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/21/fact-sheet-president-biden-signs-executive-order-to-revitalize-our-nations-commitment-to-environmental-justice-for-all/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that racial discrimination created a situation in which minority groups are more likely to suffer from various environmental harms and are purportedly more susceptible to the impact of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate change</a>. The executive order will “deepen” the “whole-of-government” approach to climate which Biden has frequently touted.
“For far too long, communities across our country have faced persistent environmental injustice through toxic pollution, underinvestment in infrastructure and critical services, and other disproportionate environmental harms often due to a legacy of racial discrimination including redlining,” the White House statement asserted. “These communities with environmental justice concerns face even greater burdens due to climate change.”
Biden, who <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1649479625246908420" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled</a> the executive order in the Rose Garden on Friday, also created the White House Office of Environmental Justice led by a Federal Chief Environmental Justice Officer in order to coordinate “environmental justice policy” across the federal government.
The order “makes clear that the pursuit of environmental justice is a duty of all executive branch agencies and should be incorporated into their missions” and directed the agencies to “consider measures” which address “adverse environmental and health impacts on communities, including the cumulative impacts of pollution and other burdens like climate change.”
“Racism is a fundamental driver of environmental injustice,” the statement continued, adding that the order “directs agencies to actively facilitate meaningful public participation and just treatment of all people in agency decision-making.”
One previous executive order from the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> addressing climate change is “at the center of United States foreign policy and national security.” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/23/fact-sheet-president-bidens-leaders-summit-on-climate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> a climate summit with other world leaders within months of entering the Oval Office.
The most recent executive order follows the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, both of which allocated substantial funds for climate initiatives and renewable energy incentives. Biden administration officials have introduced new emissions <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-unveils-new-restrictions-on-air-conditioners-despite-backlash-over-gas-stove-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rules</a> for household appliances such as gas stoves and refrigerators, tightened energy efficiency <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/climate-alarmists-senator-tim-scott-blasts-energy-department-over-new-power-standards-for-certain-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">standards</a> for mobile homes, and proposed new vehicle emissions <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unveils-proposal-for-landmark-nationwide-crackdown-on-gas-cars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regulations</a> to encourage the increased adoption of electric cars.
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Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/keystone-pipeline-dead-killed-by-biden-thousands-of-jobs-lost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nixed</a> expansions to the Keystone XL pipeline when he entered office and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-severely-cuts-back-on-oil-and-gas-leases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slowed</a> federal oil lease approvals over the past two years. He meanwhile <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/paris-climate-agreement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">returned</a> the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement, an international treaty that calls for reducing worldwide emissions by half ahead of 2030, as he promotes the broader transition toward renewable energy.
Despite the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, some Democratic lawmakers recently renewed their calls for more intense climate legislation: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) this week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-reintroduces-the-green-new-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reintroduced</a> the Green New Deal, a resolution which claims to solve climate change by drastically reshaping the American economy. The text of the <a href="https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/gnd_resolution_-_042023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> calls for the United States to meet all power demand through renewable and zero-emission sources, upgrade all existing buildings in the nation to achieve maximum energy efficiency, and overhaul the transportation system to remove carbon emissions to the greatest extent possible within the next decade.

President Biden

Biden Signs Executive Order To Make Entire Government Focus On ‘Environmental Justice’

Biden Unveils Executive Order To Make Federal Government Focus On 'Environmental Justice'

Biden Administration

Executive

Racism

David Stevens, a senior <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/housing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">housing</a> official under former President Barack Obama, condemned a proposal from President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> that will effectively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">penalize</a> financially stable homebuyers to subsidize those with higher risk.
Americans purchasing a new home or refinancing their existing mortgage can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-now-punishing-americans-with-high-credit-scores-to-subsidize-certain-homebuyers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expect</a> to pay higher mortgage rates and monthly fees starting in May if they have a higher credit score, while those with lower credit scores and smaller down payments will be provided better rates. Homebuyers with credit scores above 680, for instance, would pay an additional $40 each month on a home loan of $400,000, while homebuyers who make down payments between 15% and 20% will receive the largest fees.
Stevens, who previously served as federal housing commissioner for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, asserted that the move is “unprecedented” in an <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/real-estate/former-obama-housing-chief-slams-bidens-unprecedented-mortgage-plan-not-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox News. &#8220;We can do better programs to help more minorities get into homeownership,” he contended. “This is not the way to do it.&#8221;
Government-backed mortgage corporations Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the latter of which Stevens used to lead as senior vice president of single family lending, will pivot from a primarily risk-driven assessment toward lowering fees for potential homebuyers with lower credit scores. &#8220;This has really convoluted the entire discipline and credit risk pricing structure that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have followed since their inception,&#8221; Stevens added. &#8220;I totally recognize and appreciate the effort to bring more people into homeownership who have traditionally not had that opportunity. But using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for these sorts of political purposes may not be the best thing to do.”
Stevens confirmed that Sandra Thompson, the current director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, made a shift in which she “lowered the fees being charged to borrowers with low down payments and low credit scores” and compensated them by “raising fees on better creditworthy borrowers who are putting down much larger down payments.” He noted that he received an email from an executive at a mortgage lending company who noted that the policy incentivizes borrowers to worsen their credit before applying for a loan in order to improve their fee structure.
Mortgage Bankers Association CEO Robert Broeksmit likewise said in a <a href="https://www.mba.org/docs/default-source/residential-policy-letters/mba-letter-regarding-new-llpa-changes_feb-3-2023.pdf?sfvrsn=b8c9970_1&amp;utm_campaign=Breaking%20AU%20-%20FHFA%20LLPA%20Letter%20-%202-6-23&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Eloqua" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the Federal Housing Finance Agency that the policy would raise costs for typical homebuyers despite the “current stressed housing market conditions already making affordability a challenge.” He called on ​​the loan level pricing adjustments based on income to be removed.
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The implementation of the new fee structure, part of which was <a href="https://www.fhfa.gov/Media/PublicAffairs/Pages/Statement-from-FHFA-Director-Sandra-Thompson-on-Upfront-Fees-Based-on-Certain-Borrowers-DTI-Ratio.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delayed</a> until August following criticism from mortgage industry professionals, is consistent with White House policies attempting to address claims of racial income and wealth inequality. President Joe Biden recently issued an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/16/executive-order-on-further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> mandating that his administration operate under a “whole-of-government approach to racial equity and support for underserved communities” and calling on federal agencies to “embed” the philosophy into all aspects of their decision-making.
The executive order specifically mentioned that agencies should “expand access to capital, preserve housing and neighborhood affordability, root out discrimination in the housing market, and build community wealth.”

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Former Obama Housing Commissioner Slams Biden Rule That Will Raise Mortgage Fees To Subsidize Low-Income Buyers

Former Obama Housing Commissioner Slams Equity-Driven Biden Mortgage Rule

Economy

Housing

Racial Bias

The writer who penned the original novel upon which “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Mean Girls</a>” is based is considering legal action against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tina-fey">Tina Fey</a> and Paramount over “unpaid dues.”
Rosalind Wiseman wrote the book “Queen Bees and Wannabes” in 2002 for parents to help them understand their teenage girls. The book became the basis of the cult classic comedy “Mean Girls” (2004) starring Lindsay Lohan. The film version was written by Fey.
Wiseman sold the film rights in 2002 for $400,000 and, in doing so, relinquished all rights to original motion pictures and derivative works, including musicals and TV shows. The movie was adapted into a Broadway musical.
The author’s contract promised she would receive net profit based on box office performance, but now Wiseman claims the studio hasn&#8217;t paid her any, claiming they have no profits due to extra costs. “Mean Girls” was a surprise hit at the box office, bringing in $130 million worldwide following its release on a $17 million production budget.
Wiseman discussed her feelings about the situation during an interview with <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/18/mean-girls-author-tina-fey-paid-me-nothing-for-hit-franchise/">The New York Post</a> published over the weekend. 
She mentioned how “Mean Girls” has “changed our culture and changed the zeitgeist” due to its massive popularity. 
“Yes, I had a terrible contract, terrible, but the movie has made so much money, and they keep recycling my work over and over again, so to not even consider me,&#8221; the author said, mentioning how the &#8220;hypocrisy is too much.&#8221; 
&#8220;Over the years Tina&#8217;s spoken so eloquently about women supporting other women, but it&#8217;s gotten increasingly clear to me that, in my own personal experience, that&#8217;s not going to be the experience,&#8221; she continued. 
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Wiseman also claimed that a theater director had approached her about turning the book into a musical, but Fey and Paramount killed the deal because they owned the rights to the intellectual property.
&#8220;What&#8217;s hard is that they used my name in the Playbill,&#8221; Wiseman told the Post. &#8220;And Tina, in her interviews, said I was the inspiration and the source, but there was no payment.&#8221;
&#8220;I suspect most people would be shocked at how shabbily Rosalind Wiseman has been treated,&#8221; Wiseman’s lawyer Ryan Keech told the Post. 
&#8220;It is nothing short of shameful for a company with the resources of Paramount to go to the lengths to which it has gone to deny Ms. Wiseman what she is fairly entitled to for having created what has become one of the most iconic entertainment franchises of the last 25 years.&#8221;
“We have reached out to Paramount to have things be more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/equity">equitable</a>, but Paramount is not interested in that,” he noted.
As for why she’s choosing to come forward with her story now and take it public, the author said her pursuit of “equity” is a driving force.
&#8220;For a lot of reasons I didn&#8217;t come forward for a while, and one of the reasons [is] because I was so focused on me not whining or trying to trash Tina,&#8221; she said. However, she added, &#8220;I believe strongly when you&#8217;re in a position of power and privilege that you have a responsibility to share that to create equity.&#8221;

“Mean Girls” Broadway Opening Night – Arrivals & Curtain Call

‘Mean Girls’ Original Writer Considers Suing Tina Fey Despite Signing Away Rights, Demands ‘Equity’

'Mean Girls' Original Writer Considers Suing Tina Fey Despite Signing Away Rights, Demands 'Equity'

Entertainment

Movies

Tina Fey

The federal government&#8217;s central technology arm jeopardized nearly one million online accounts by rejecting facial recognition technology when it was required for the high-security accounts, then cited “equity” to justify years of lying about its compliance with federal rules, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> has learned.
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) technology group was tasked with creating Login.gov, a service that federal agencies would use to create accounts permitting access to government websites detailing personal or sensitive information. The service was required to follow rules set by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and included offering a hacker- and impersonator-resistant option for agencies dealing with the most sensitive data, which must conform to a NIST standard called Identity Assurance Level 2 (IAL2).
GSA earned $187 million off the service after telling a government funding board that its solution met NIST’s exacting standards, and $10 million more from agencies who purchased the highest-security solution from GSA on the basis of its representations.
But GSA knew that its system was anything but compliant with IAL2, because it disregarded one of its most important security features: Using biometrics such as facial recognition, eye scans, or fingerprints to prove those seeking access to sensitive data were who they claimed to be. Officials opted to simply ignore that category because they said facial recognition technology might discriminate based on skin color, the <a href="https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/GSA/GSA-Misled-Customers-Logingovs-Compliance-Digital-Identity-Standards-JE23-003Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GSA Inspector General found</a> in a new audit.
“Put simply, Login.gov opted to ignore the standards and instead focused on selling Login.gov to customers without regard to NIST requirements,” the IG wrote. The audit said GSA “misled their customer agencies” and “knowingly billed” them for a product they were not receiving.
In response to IG, GSA acknowledged wrongdoing.
“Given that employees misled customer agencies about Login.gov&#8217;s compliance with NIST standards,&#8221; the director of Login.gov was reassigned, employee misconduct actions had been opened, and a “top-to-bottom review” of Login.gov had been ordered, officials said.
The audit found that top officials ignored insiders who pointed out that a product whose sole aim was cybersecurity was not actually secure, and that once they were caught, they misled agencies into believing they were withdrawing the webcam security feature because of new policy on “equity.” In reality, it had been out of compliance the whole time, with GSA having tricked agencies into using insecure software for years—sending federal agency officials tasked with online security into a tailspin when they learned the truth.
“As of May 2022, Login.gov had 906,187 users of Login.gov services that GSA purported to be IAL2 but did not comply,” the IG said. “Notwithstanding GSA officials’ assertions that Login.gov met [the] requirements, Login.gov has never included a physical or biometric comparison in production. Login.gov officials informed us that biometric comparison was not included in products offered to customer agencies, initially because the feature required testing before implementation and later because they further delayed it due to equity concerns.&#8221;
At multiple points, senior leaders with GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), the division under the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) in charge of the project, &#8220;learned that Login.gov did not comply with IAL2 requirements. They did not, however, notify customer agencies of the noncompliance. The inability to meet IAL2 NIST standards became the topic of discussions among Login.gov leaders and personnel at least as early as 2019, and included concerns that using individuals’ selfies to verify their identity could impact Login.gov’s rejection rates based on physical traits, such as skin color and tone,” it said.
&#8220;GSA misled the Technology Modernization Board in securing funding for Login.gov,&#8221; the IG wrote in September 2021.
GSA secured $187 million in federal funding after TTS Director/FAS Deputy Commissioner Vladlen “Dave” Zvenyach, then-GSA Chief Financial Officer Gerard Badorrek, and GSA Chief Information Officer David Shive attested that &#8220;Login.gov is currently used in production and complies with NIST’s 800-63-3 standard for strong authentication (AAL2) and identity verification (IAL2).&#8221;
Back in 2019, the GSA touted its “selfie” feature in marketing materials, stated in an “Agency Authorization to Operate” that the system “can support user validation at Identity Assurance Level 1 or 2 (IAL1 or IAL2),” and authorized agencies who were required to use IAL2 authentication to use Login.gov, even though a former Login.gov Product Manager told the IG “that the team knew that Login.gov did not comply with NIST 800-63-3 [another name for IAL2] as early as 2018.&#8221;
By January 2020, a senior advisor went to the top to sound the alarm about noncompliance, telling then-GSA Assistant Commissioner Dominic Sale and others. Sale &#8220;told him that because he was not the Director of Login.gov, it was not the Senior Advisor’s role to pursue the issue,&#8221; the IG found. In August 2020, a consultant flagged the same issue for a TTS employee, but the employee did not do anything about it because &#8220;he believed that everyone knew that Login.gov was not compliant.&#8221;
Zvenyach was put in charge of TTS in January 2021, and his boss, FAS Commissioner Sonny Hashmi, told the IG that &#8220;Zvenyach told him clearly that Login.gov met the IAL2 standards, and they were signing interagency agreements that stated they met the standard.&#8221;
Yet internal records showed that by June 24, 2021, not only was it not compliant, but Zvenyach had disavowed taking any steps that could get it into compliance. “The position of TTS is that the benefits of liveness/selfie does not outweigh any discriminatory impact, and therefore should not be used as a proofing requirement,” he wrote to staff in a Slack message.
The IG noted that there was no formal &#8220;documented justification&#8221; of this, &#8220;Zvenyach did not notify customer agencies when TTS suspended efforts to implement selfies to meet the NIST biometric comparison requirement,” and GSA “continued to withhold information from customer agencies about Login.gov’s lack of biometric comparison capabilities.”
The jig was up in January 2022, when a federal agency asked point-blank how the login system could possibly be compliant when it didn&#8217;t use webcams, fingerprints, or eye scanners. On January 20, 2022, the GSA released an &#8220;Equity Action Plan&#8221; that it said was required by the Biden administration, and days later, the GSA relied on the new policy to say that it would not meet NIST standards with Login.gov.
“On February 3, 2022, seven months after Zvenyach’s June 2021 internal announcement, GSA finally notified customer agencies that the IAL2 service included in their interagency agreements, for which they were paying, did not comply with NIST requirements,” the IG wrote. It told them with a statement that cited the days-old equity policy and &#8220;linked the lack of a biometric comparison feature to equity concerns. It omitted any mention of the duration and nature of Login.gov’s noncompliance with NIST’s IAL2 requirements.”
Federal security officials were shocked that they could no longer count on a secure login. &#8220;I reiterate how frustrating this is,&#8221; one wrote. &#8220;We have been promoting the use of IAL2 solutions pretty heavily,&#8221; another wrote. “Having a clear understanding of this is critical.”
&#8220;This is quite an issue. &#8230; You are now stating that IAL2 is no longer available as of today?” a third wrote. But the truth was worse&#8211;contrary to the message that misleadingly blamed a new equity policy, the agencies had unknowingly been out of compliance the whole time.
Agencies who relied on secure logins from GSA told the IG that &#8220;Login.gov’s noncompliance with the IAL2 standard created a greater risk of fraud for the customer agency,&#8221; &#8220;had an impact on the credibility of their program,&#8221; and could create liability because &#8220;the customer agency would be held responsible for allowing access to individuals at the wrong level.&#8221;
The IG said that after learning of TTS&#8217; equity-justified misrepresentations, GSA &#8220;reviewed the agreements for other misrepresentations,&#8221; and found that its authentication system was also not in compliance.
GSA Deputy Administrator Katy Kale notified the Technology Modernization Board that its proposal made statements “that could be interpreted to say Login.gov’s service meets NIST guidelines.” The IG slammed Kale for attempting to soften it, noting that “in fact,” GSA explicitly stated that it did verbatim.
“On August 16, 2022, the GSA Administrator announced the Zvenyach’s departure from GSA,” the IG said.
This is the first installment in a series.
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-tech-arm-had-pattern-of-gross-mismanagement-before-equity-induced-cybersecurity-fiasco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Tech Arm Had Pattern Of ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Before ‘Equity’-Induced Cybersecurity Fiasco</a>
Part 3: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-agency-focused-on-leftist-politics-and-pronouns-as-gross-mismanagement-put-cybersecurity-at-risk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Agency Focused On Leftist Politics And Pronouns As ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Put Cybersecurity At Risk</a>
Part 4: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chat-records-reveal-epic-meltdown-in-federal-agency-after-trump-win" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chat Records Reveal Epic Meltdown In Federal Agency After Trump Win</a>

General Services Administration

Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans’ Online Accounts, Citing ‘Equity’

Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans' Online Accounts, Citing 'Equity' 

Facial Recognition

Hackers

Inspector general

Technology

Last week, as Presidents Day weekend loomed, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest, most transformative executive orders in modern American history; it turned the federal government into one giant machine designed for the propagation of woke principles. The so-called “Executive Order On Further Advancing Racial Equity And Support For Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government” – presumably titled in jargonistic gobbledygook in order to avoid scrutiny – set out the key guiding principle for the Biden administration. This principle, “equity,” will now be used to redirect the entirety of the federal government’s awesome powers.
What, pray tell, is “equity”? It certainly isn’t equality – the presumption that Americans ought to be treated equally under the law as individuals. Instead, equity presumes that any group disparities must be the result of perverse government policy, and that the only corrective is government interventionism. The new executive order suggests that “by advancing equity, the Federal Government can support and empower all Americans, including the many communities in America that have been underserved, discriminated against, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.” Poverty, you see, is purely the outgrowth of discrimination and lack of service. Individuals must never be implicated in their own failures, nor can cultural differences justify group underperformance. As Ibram X. Kendi more bluntly puts it, “As an anti-racist, when I see racial disparities, I see racism.”
The solution, therefore, is that government must correct all policy that allows for the annoyingly eternal human conditions of poverty and inequality. Biden’s executive order dictates that equity be “embedded … into the fabric of Federal policymaking and service delivery.” This will not be a “one-time project”; it must instead be a “multi-general commitment, and it must remain the responsibility of agencies across the Federal Government.” To that end, virtually every agency of government must establish an “Agency Equity Team … to coordinate the implementation of equity initiatives.” Every aspect of government down to the design, development, and acquisition of artificial intelligence, must advance equity. 
Nothing gives the president of the United States the unilateral authority to reshape the entire executive branch into an agent of “equity.” That is a legislative function, and the legislature has given no such grant of power. But Biden is doing it anyway. And that means stacking – presumably for generations to come – a Deep State of “equity”-driven Left-wing bureaucrats throughout the federal government, systematizing the equity agenda throughout the unelected and unanswerable areas of the executive branch.
This is dangerous, and it must be stopped. It is violative of Constitutional principles, both in terms of separation of powers and under the equal protection clause – which is designed to prevent precisely the sort of group-driven resource allocation Biden favors. Stopping this executive order must become the first priority of the Republican House, and of future Republican presidential candidates. 
Biden is deliberately planting a poisonous seed in the fertile soil of the world’s most powerful executive branch. That seed will bear hideous fruit as the years roll by. The only answer is to uproot the seed before it begins to sprout.

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Joe Biden Turns The American Government Into Wokeness, Inc.

Ben Shapiro

Federal Government

Contrary to what his critics may claim, President Joe Biden is moving at blazing speed in transforming the federal government into a tool for advancing the principles of Critical Race Theory — diversity, equity, and inclusion — across America. His <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/16/executive-order-on-further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest executive order</a> will create an army of equity bureaucrats who will be difficult to fire while the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-white-racism-is-all-the-rage-amongst-big-business-banks-unions-and-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-white ideology</a> seeps into the U.S. government.
On his first day in office, Biden signed an E.O. ordering his administration to craft equity action plans and incorporate &#8220;racial justice&#8221; into their top priorities. Now, Biden is &#8220;redoubling&#8221; his administration&#8217;s efforts to create an &#8220;equitable nation&#8221; with a new E.O. creating government positions that could last well beyond his presidency.
&#8220;Achieving racial equity and support for underserved communities is not a one-time project,&#8221; the new order said Thursday. &#8220;It must be a multi-generational commitment, and it must remain the responsibility of agencies across the Federal Government.&#8221;
In turn, the order mandates that all secretaries in Biden&#8217;s cabinet create &#8220;agency equity teams&#8221; within 30 days. Those teams will be comprised of presidential appointees and also competitive service employees, also known as career officials. Career officials are very difficult to fire due to union protections and also because there must be cause for their termination, among other lengthy processes.
That means those individuals will likely be in the federal government long after Biden leaves office.
The agency equity teams are tasked with doing exactly what it sounds like — making sure each agency is implementing Biden&#8217;s goals of creating a diverse workforce that doles out taxpayer dollars based on race and other factors — excellence be damned.
&#8220;Each Agency Equity Team shall support continued equity training and equity leadership development for staff across all levels of the agency’s workforce,&#8221; the order says in part.
They will also assist the agency head with &#8220;staffing and data collection capacity&#8221; and will serve as an &#8220;advisory and coordination role on priority agency actions.&#8221; So, for example, if the racial makeup of the employees at the Department of Interior is too white, then this new office will make suggestions to hire more minorities.
Absent from the executive order is any mention of &#8220;merit&#8221; or &#8220;qualifications.&#8221; The goal isn&#8217;t to produce a federal workforce of the best and the brightest or subsidize projects that are high quality, but to redistribute the wealth to Americans of different demographics who have had ancestors discriminated against.
The goal, as with all Critical Race Theory-driven ideas, is to &#8220;remedy past discrimination with future discrimination,&#8221; as one of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/googles-anti-white-image-equity-fellowship-announces-winners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most well-known CRT</a> advocates once infamously wrote.
Russel Vought, former Office of Management and Budget director under President Donald J. Trump and president of the Center for Renewing America, told The Daily Wire that the Biden administration has become a bit of an expert in that discrimination.
“‘Equity&#8217; policies are routinely used to justify making decisions based on race, gender, and other identity characteristics,&#8221; he said via email. &#8220;This Administration has turned government-funded racism into an art. This is dangerous and exactly the type of woke and weaponized government we are trying to defund.&#8221;
The full executive order is worth the read. As this author has previously opined, folks like Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have already made ramming equity through his number priority. Safety has been placed on the back burner. One look at how transportation, supply chains, and train derailments have been handled under his watch let Americans know that it has been a total disaster.
Now, the entire federal government has been ordered to move full steam ahead and &#8220;prioritize&#8221; what 1776 Project PAC founder Ryan Girdusky has previously described to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> as &#8220;the first large-scale government-supported laws that discriminate against people based on their race since before Eisenhower was President.&#8221; In turn, the dilution of merit and lowering of standards will follow.
If you think dismantling the Leviathan that is the federal bureaucracy is already a hassle now, think of how difficult it will be after equity infects every single inch of it with entrenched career officials. It will be disastrous for the nation.
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Biden Creates Army Of Equity Bureaucrats With Latest Executive Order

One of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttgieg&#8217;s main objectives is to push equity into every facet of his department&#8217;s actions and policies. He received those marching orders from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>, who signed an executive order on day one in office mandating that the whole of the federal government be used to advance racial equity.
That&#8217;s why if it seems like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-pushes-buttigieg-for-direct-action-after-ohio-train-derailment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buttigieg</a> is a bit slow to address safety issues that actually matter to the average American — such as the hazardous train derailment in<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-basically-nuked-a-town-with-chemicals-critics-blast-detonation-from-train-derailment" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> East Palestine, Ohio</a> — it&#8217;s because he is. In fact, the &#8220;Safety First&#8221; portion of the Department of Transportation&#8217;s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230214190430/https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/safetyfirst/us-department-transportation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> hasn&#8217;t been updated since May 2020 — which speaks volumes about how much the president&#8217;s administration actually care about preventing harm.
Instead, their focus is on making sure that the federal government uses its might and power to redistribute tax dollars toward &#8220;underserved communities&#8221; and make sure that agencies use hiring practices that focus not on merit, but on skin color and other immutable traits.
On Monday, Buttigieg made it a point to address the racial makeup of construction workers before even addressing the situation in East Palestine.
While at the National Association of Counties Conference, Buttigieg <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/buttigieg-white-construction-workers-taking-jobs-communities-color" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bemoaned</a>, &#8220;We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color, that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don&#8217;t look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood.&#8221;
What does it matter if the person wielding a jackhammer is black, brown, yellow, or white? It doesn&#8217;t. What should matter is that he has the competency to not hurt himself, his coworkers, or the public.
Well, to the Democrats it matters a great deal. In fact, equity is one of the Department of Transportation&#8217;s four main priorities according to the website: Climate and Sustainability, Equity, Safety, and Transformation.
As mentioned, the Department&#8217;s &#8220;Safety First&#8221; website still touts the goals of Secretary Elaine Chao, who was running the show for former President Donald Trump.
That sort of speaks for itself as to where Buttgieg&#8217;s priorities are.
Meanwhile, the equity tab <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/priorities/equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proudly proclaims</a>, &#8220;For the first time, DOT has centered Equity as a Department-wide strategic goal. This is a critical step to institutionalizing equity across the Department’s policies and programs, with the aim of reducing inequities across our transportation systems and the communities they affect.&#8221;
Equity is their central focus and they are quite proud of it. What does that entail for Americans?
As Professor Victor Davis Hanson explained to The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last spring</a>, what that means is that &#8220;in reductionist fashion, any inequality is due to racism or bias and the government must have the wisdom and morality to punish perceived victimizers and redistribute to supposed victims.”
“All else does not count — not merit, not tragedies, not health, not class, not work ethic, not family structures, not culture, not anything — except the elite in charge will always be exempt from the ramifications of their own equity ideology,” he explained.
So maybe that&#8217;s why Buttigieg waited 10 days before commenting on the train crash in East Palestine. It just didn&#8217;t affect him. As Hanson explained, he&#8217;s immune from the ramifications of his own policies. What moved Buttigieg to comment on it wasn&#8217;t a concern for the matter at hand, but that conservative media and even some Democrats were hounding him for a response.
More likely than not, he will probably quickly go back to focusing on justifying racial discrimination through the lens of equity. But perhaps his team will update the &#8220;Safety First&#8221; tab to at least give off the appearance that they are concerned with, well, putting safety first.
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Buttigieg’s Focus Is Ramming Through Equity, Not Assuring Transportation Safety. His Department’s Website Proves It.

Buttigieg's Focus Is Ramming Through Equity, Not Assuring Transportation Safety. His Department's Website Proves It.

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