Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are demanding answers from Secretary of Stateย Antony Blinken.
Their concern comes from theย Biden administration's decision to establish a controversial new position at the State Department โ U.S. Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice.
Rep.ย James Comerย (R-Ky.)ย recently sent an open letter, co-signed by 15 Republican colleagues, to Blinken to investigate the administration's creation of another unnecessary and divisive position:
Today,ย House Committee on Oversight and Reformย Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Committee Republicans raised concerns over the Biden Administration's push to spend taxpayer dollars on the creation of a new โSpecial Representative for Racial Equity and Justiceโ position within the U.S. Department of State to push divisive ideologies. To understand the purpose and scope of this new taxpayer-funded position, the Republican lawmakers request Secretary Antony Blinken provide all documents and communications about the creation of the role and a briefing.ย
โThe Special Representative position continues the Biden Administration's prioritization of a radical, progressive agenda the American people consistently reject,โย wrote the lawmakers.ย โCommittee Republicans question the necessity of this new position. Further, we are concerned about wasting taxpayer dollars on an undefined role which categorizes and further divides Americans instead of focusing on the Department's mission to โprotect and promote U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values and shape an international environment in which all Americans can thrive.' The Special Representative is the latest evidence the Biden Administration is willing to devote time, funding, and other government resources to enact divisive policies.โ
On June 17, 2022, the Biden Administration appointed Desirรฉe Cormier Smith as the Department's first Special Representative as part of the State Department's Equity Action Plan. According to media reports, the Special Representative will be tasked with โinstitutionalizing an enterprise-wide approach to integrating racial and ethnic equityโ and countering disinformation. Recently, the Biden Administration attempted to install one of the most prolific purveyors of disinformation to the Department of Homeland Security's โDisinformation Governance Boardโ and has supported extreme tactics to achieve preferred policy outcomes.
โThe Special Representative makes the United States the global mouthpiece for divisive ideologies rather than democracy, equality, and freedom. As the American people struggle under the Biden Administration's domestic and foreign policy, Committee Republicans question the value and wisdom of continuing to pursue an agenda grounded in waste and division,โย continued the lawmakers.ย โCommittee Republicans are concerned with the Biden Administration's emphasis on โequity,โ whichโby the Administration's highest-ranked officials' own admissionsโoften runs contrary to the American ideal of equality. The Biden Administration's prior attempts to shoehorn this pernicious ideology into every corner of the federal government have failed, and Committee Republicans urge reconsideration of this latest change within the Department.โ
Read the letterย here.
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