President Donald Trump is exorcising the spirits of DEI from the federal government, using essential principle, preferred pronouns, and divisive important principle. However, professional orders only last as long as the professional in demand. In four years, the Woketopus, as the Daily Signal’s TylerO’Neill rightly calls the many-tentacled pond creature that typically runs the senior branch, may be back in control.  ,
The threat of dangerous diversity, equity, and inclusion guidelines is being addressed by some House Republicans.  ,
Reps. Tom Tiffany, Burgess Owens, Claudia Tenney, Andy Ogles and others have reintroduced the Fairness, Anti-Discrimination and Individual Rights ( FAIR ) Act, aimed at following through on Trump’s executive orders demanding that federal DEI programs die — and stay dead.  ,
Specifically, the policy bars governmental agencies, national companies, states, universities, or any other victim of federal funds from “intentionally discriminating against or granting a desire to any person or group based on race, color, or regional origin”.
The FAIR Act refutes a tenet that has persisted for my entire life: success comes from significance and hard work, not from your skin’s colour. The federal government may lead by example, promoting unity and opportunity through a commitment to equitable remedy for every single American” , , Owens, a 73-year-old black senator from Utah, said in a statement. He continued, stating that he was a kid in the Jim Crow South and that, regardless of how it is presented, “preference under the symbol of ownership is just basic racism.”
Tiffany, who represents Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, said the policy delivers on the government’s promise to end DEI plans by getting rid of race-based choices on the national before. Ending discrimination, the lawmaker asserts, begins with putting an end to the federal government’s own discriminatory practices.  ,
” We believe this should be codified into statute”, Tiffany told The Federalist in a recent interview. Everyone deserves to be treated equally, and the federal government should not play favorites.
That’s not how it’s worked for several years under the DEI agenda. Preferences of all kinds have always been the unholy quality of the Biden administration. Courts have repeatedly found the special treatment practices discriminatory and, ultimately, unconstitutional.  ,
‘ Pernicious’ Programs
In 2021, a federal court blocked the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s loan forgiveness programs exclusively for minority farmers and ranchers. The billions of taxpayer dollars being distributed based on racial categories was a clear and unconditional act of discrimination, according to a lawsuit brought on the behalf of ag producers in several states. Under the “historic” USDA program, white farmers and others need not apply.  ,
The Wisconsin Institute for Law &, Liberty led the national lawsuit. At least 60 federally discriminatory taxpayer-funded programs were analyzed by a study released by the Milwaukee-based conservative law firm. WILL’s Roadmap to Equality, which seeks to dismantle the” Equity Agenda”, identifies at least$ 124 billion in annual costly and constitutionally suspect initiatives.  ,
According to the analysis, the USDA runs more than two dozen race-based programs that discriminate against farmers on their own. The U. S. Department of Treasury’s$ 10 billion Homeowner Assistance Fund was designed to prevent mortgage delinquencies and defaults, foreclosures, loss of utilities or home energy services, and displacement of homeowners experiencing financial hardship”— but only if the beneficiary meets a certain” equity “profile.  ,
” In comparison to previous programs to assist homeowners, such as those launched during the Great Recession, HAF is uniquely focused on equity and meeting the needs of low-income homeowners,” the Treasury program states. Who gets the money? The equity umbrella covers those who are black, Latino, Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and other persons of color, according to the agency. Members of religious minorities”, LGBTQ+ persons,” and individuals with disabilities may also apply.  ,
WILL notes that the federal DEI-based programs it has tracked do not include the inward-facing DEI policies previously identified by organizations, such as Do No Harm’s review of more than 500 DEI policies or the Heritage Foundation’s report on the State Department’s$ 77 million in DEI spending.  ,
” While those inward-facing policies are pernicious and ought to be disbanded, the following outward-facing programs, policies, and regulations affect millions of Americans every year,” WILL’s Roadmap states”. The Trump Administration should target these programs, policies, and regulations, and then terminate the programs, settle the lawsuits, and investigate pending complaints of race discrimination. ”  ,
Whipsaw of Executive Action
However, executive orders by themselves won’t do it. In response, House bills like the FAIR Act and the Ending Racism in Government Contracting Act, introduced by Reps. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis. ) and Anna Paulina Luna ( Fla. ), are crucial in ending 50 years of increasing quotas and the DEI agenda in federal contracting, claim proponents.  ,
In an interview with The Federalist, WILL deputy counsel Dan Lennington said,” You live by the executive order, you die by the executive order.”  ,
For those who have repressed this country’s history for the past four terrible years, President Joe Biden wreaked havoc by quickly robbing myriad executive orders from Trump’s first term. Some of those involved prohibitions on the kind of identity politics-driven mandates pushed by Trump’s predecessors.  ,
According to Lennington, “from a conservative standpoint, this restores the regular constitutional order,” which is the idea that the next administration could undo the executive order that the next administration could have revoked. The idea is that under the Constitution, congress should be passing laws and the president signing them, rather than the whipsaw of executive action.” Otherwise, all these laws will lay there dormant only to spring into action for the next Democrat. ”  ,
Trump wants the Republican-controlled Congress to pass a “big, beautiful” bill to carry out his ambitious goals to reform and impose taxes, extend his first-term tax cuts, promote energy incentives, and secure the U.S. border. Others are counseling separate, smaller bills, all under reconciliation to get around the 60-vote mandate in the Senate. RINOs, per usual, are getting itchy about hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts proposed.  ,
However it happens, Republicans have a narrow window in which to work. Advocates for long-term change claim that the time is now to act if toxic DEI is going to remain dead in the federal government.  ,
” It’s time to ensure fairness, reduce wasteful spending, and uphold the principles of equality and colorblindness,” Rep. Glenn Grothman, author of the Ending Racism in Government Contracting Act, said in a press release”. Our legislation will end the transition from constitutional equality to a racially-based redistribution system managed by bureaucratic “diversity and inclusion” officials.
Matt Kittle covers The Federalist’s senior elections coverage. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
