{"id":1978182,"date":"2023-07-20T05:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T09:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-chink-in-bidens-dei-armor\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T05:18:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T09:18:35","slug":"a-chink-in-bidens-dei-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-chink-in-bidens-dei-armor\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s DEI Armor Shows Weakness"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fa-chink-in-bidens-dei-armor%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=1978182&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--><div>\n \u2064 <\/p>\n<h2>The National\u2062 Defense Authorization\u2062 Act is set \u2064to \u2064slash\u200b President \u200bJoe \u200bBiden\u2019s \u2062DEI\u200b regime inside \u200dthe\u200c Pentagon<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n\u2063 \u2063<figcaption>\n \u2064  \u200b (Photo by \u200dChip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n \u200d <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>President\u200b Joe Biden \u2064came into office trumpeting\u200d his embrace \u200dof Diversity,\u200c Equity, \u2063and \u200cInclusion\u2062 initiatives \u200bacross the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/better-than-expected-u-s-economy-added-638000-jobs-in-october-unemployment-dropped-to-6-9\/\" title=\"Better Than Expected: U.S. Economy Added 638,000 Jobs in October, Unemployment Dropped to 6.9%\">federal government<\/a>, including \u2062the U.S. military. After promising on Inauguration\u200c Day \u200d&#8221;an\u2064 ambitious, \u200bwhole-of-government\u2063 equity\u2064 agenda,&#8221; Biden issued an\u200b <a \u200chref=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/06\/25\/fact-sheet-president-biden-signs-executive-order-advancing-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order<\/a> that\u2063 required, among\u200b other \u2064things, a chief \u2064diversity\u200b officer \u2064in \u2063every \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/salon-owner-files-lawsuit-over-oregon-governor-threatening-to-have-cps-take-her-kids-for-defying-lockdown\/\" title=\"Salon Owner Files Lawsuit Over Oregon Governor Threatening to Have CPS Take Her Kids for Defying Lockdown\">government agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2064 \u2062 <\/p>\n<div>\n \u200c \u200b  <\/p>\n<p><a \u2063href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\"\u2064 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200d  \u200d  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" \u200drel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2062 <\/p><\/div>\n<p> \u200c <\/p>\n<p>If\u200c there \u200cis\u2062 one \u200ctakeaway \u200dfrom the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-chink-in-bidens-dei-armor\/\" title=\"Biden's DEI Armor Shows Weakness\">ongoing \u2062congressional \u2064negotiations<\/a> over the National Defense \u200dAuthorization\u2063 Act,\u2064 which\u200d authorizes\u200c funding\u2064 for the Department of Defense,\u2062 it \u2064is \u2062that moderate Democrats up for reelection next\u200c year\u200b recognize this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-climate-agenda-wont-replace-jobs-it-seeks-to-kill-separate-ap-wapo-fact-checks-suggest\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Climate Agenda Won\u2019t Replace Jobs It Seeks To Kill, Separate AP, WaPo Fact-Checks Suggest\">agenda won\u2019<\/a>t\u200b fly\u2063 when\u2063 it\u2064 comes\u2064 to \u200dthe U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p> \u2062\u200b <\/p>\n<p>The House,\u200b controlled \u2064by Republicans,\u200b stripped\u2064 DEI \u200cprograms and\u2062 staff from the \u2062Pentagon.\u200b More interesting, though, is the \u200bSenate \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/fy24_ndaa_bill_text.pdf\"\u200b target=\"_blank\"\u200c rel=\"noopener\">version\u200b of the bill<\/a>. That \u200cbody is controlled by Democrats,\u200b and\u2064 the bill \u200bthat \u2063came \u2064out \u2062of\u200c the \u200b<a \u2062href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/about\/membership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate \u200dArmed Services Committee<\/a> had \u2064to\u200c have the support of \u2062at \u2062least one\u2062 Democrat\u2014possibly \u200cmore.<\/p>\n<p> \u200d <\/p>\n<p>The Senate \u2062bill nonetheless \u2064imposes \u2063a \u200chiring freeze\u2064 on \u200dall \u2063DEI \u200bemployees, prohibits \u2063the\u2063 Defense \u200bDepartment \u200dfrom \u200cfilling any DEI vacancies, \u2063and \u2063caps pay for any\u2062 DEI\u2064 employee \u200bat $70,000.<\/p>\n<p> \u2064\u200d <\/p>\n<div>\n\u2062 \u2062 \u200c  <\/p>\n<p><a \u200bhref=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" \u200ctarget=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2064  \u200d\u2062 <\/p>\n<p><a\u2062 href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u200b<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even one\u2063 DEI employee in\u2062 the military\u2062 is too \u2062many\u200c for\u200b an\u2062 institution \u200dthat \u2062must\u2063 be singularly, \u2062ruthlessly focused \u200bon maintaining \u2063the most lethal force possible, but\u200d this is \u2063at least progress\u2063 toward that\u2064 goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2063  <\/p>\n<p>These provisions are\u200d a \u200cstep \u2063in the \u200bright \u200bdirection\u200c for the Pentagon, \u2062the \u2064military, and \u200dthe \u200ccountry. \u2064Next\u200b up: ending\u2064 racial \u200bpreferences at the\u2062 country\u2019s military academies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, including in the military, faces a setback as the National Defense Authorization Act plans to reduce its influence within the Pentagon. Despite his promise of an extensive equity agenda, the act threatens to curtail Biden&#8217;s DEI regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1978183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978182","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\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}