{"id":1545333,"date":"2022-07-09T01:49:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T05:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545333"},"modified":"2022-07-09T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T05:49:16","slug":"republicans-raise-alarm-over-new-state-department-woke-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-raise-alarm-over-new-state-department-woke-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Raise Alarm Over New State Department \u2018Woke Czar\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-raise-alarm-over-new-state-department-woke-czar%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545333&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican lawmakers are calling for an inquiry into a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-state-department\">State Department<\/a> equity position they are calling a \u201cwoke czar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-republicans\">Republicans<\/a> on the House Oversight Committee are leading the charge against President Joe Biden\u2019s appointment last month of Desir\u00e9e Cormier Smith as the first \u201cspecial representative\u201d for the State Department\u2019s \u201cEquity Action Plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Special Representative position continues the Biden Administration\u2019s prioritization of a radical, progressive agenda the American people consistently reject,\u201d the letter said. \u201cCommittee 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\u2019s mission to \u2018protect and promote U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values and shape an international environment in which all Americans can thrive.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Special Representative is the latest evidence the Biden Administration is willing to devote time, funding, and other government resources to enact divisive policies,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said in its announcement that Smith would \u201chelp ensure that racial equity and support for underserved communities remains central to our foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a State Department video in the rollout for her position, Smith pointed to Biden\u2019s new \u201cwhole of government approach\u201d to advancing \u201cequity\u201d by \u201ccentering it in our foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans argued that focus is a distraction from bigger national security goals and is actually just a vehicle for advancing a \u201cradical, progressive agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter points to reports that Smith would also be tasked with dealing with disinformation, an effort that has landed federal agencies in hot water in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers pointed to the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s new Disinformation Governance Board, which has been the subject of much pushback and saw its leader ousted after her controversial social media videos surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>They also requested documents,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican lawmakers are calling for an inquiry into a new State Department equity position they are calling a \u201cwoke czar.\u201d Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are leading the charge against President Joe Biden\u2019s appointment last month of Desir\u00e9e Cormier Smith as the first \u201cspecial representative\u201d for the State Department\u2019s \u201cEquity Action Plan.\u201d \u201cThe Special [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":1894770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/republicans-raise-alarm-over-new-state-department-woke-czar_4576699.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}