Another Republican Comes Out Against Woke Military Spending

Pushing woke agenda ‘undermines our moral position and ultimately degrades our strength,’ Sen. Wicker says Getty Images

On Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s ranking Republican indicated his support for cutting Pentagon support programs. “woke” Cultural agenda

Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) – During a speech on Senate floor accused Biden’s administration of “shaping the Department of Defense into an institution that is spearheading toxic social policies instead of restoring military strength.”

Wicker’s remarks follow on from You can find more information at Washington Free Beacon Report The House voted in support of budget cuts that would affect the Pentagon’s progressive culture priorities like diversity and inclusion training, and gender pronountraining. Rep. Mike Rogers, R., Ala., chair of the House Armed Services Committee said to the Free Beacon His committee meets this week “examining programs to determine if they actually provide the capabilities we need to defeat the threats we face. If they don’t, they’ll be cut.”

“In the wake of a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan and increasingly hostile behavior from China and Russia, the president should have prioritized military readiness,” According to an advanced copy of Wicker’s remarks that was obtained by The, Wicker stated Free Beacon. “Instead, he decided, inexplicably, to spend his first two years in office focused on something else—on shaping the Department of Defense into an institution that is spearheading toxic social policies instead of restoring military strength. This agenda has harmed military readiness and alienated a large portion of potential military recruits.”

Wicker and other Republican defense chiefs say that they will not reduce any programs that will increase the American military’s readiness to face Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and other hostile countries. These leaders are determined to eliminate all programs that they consider to be woke or promote far-left cultural priorities, despite the Pentagon’s record budget.

“Politicizing the military—pushing this ‘woke’ agenda, or any other agenda that does not contribute to cohesion, readiness, and warfighting—undermines our moral position and ultimately degrades our strength,” Wicker stated.

The following is the March 2022 edition of Free Beacon Known the existence U.S. Army training program to teach soldiers proper gender pronouns. It also advised officers when they should offer gender transition surgeries to their soldiers.