{"id":571411,"date":"2021-06-23T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571411"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:21:15","slug":"opm-nominee-confirmed-after-republican-delay-over-concerns-critical-race-theory-could-seep-further-into-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opm-nominee-confirmed-after-republican-delay-over-concerns-critical-race-theory-could-seep-further-into-government\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM Nominee Confirmed After Republican Delay Over Concerns Critical Race Theory Could Seep Further Into Government"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fopm-nominee-confirmed-after-republican-delay-over-concerns-critical-race-theory-could-seep-further-into-government%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=571411&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kiran-ahuja-e1624456432626.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris broke a Senate tie to confirm President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The OPM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">manages<\/a> all federal civilian employees and acts as a Human Resources department for the federal government. Senate Republicans unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/559657-harris-casts-tie-breaking-vote-to-confirm-office-of-personnel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposed<\/a> the nominee, Kiran Ahuja, citing her support for government-funded abortion and critical race theory (CRT).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/critical-race-theory-academic-antiracism-public-schools-christopher-rufo\/\">CRT<\/a>\u00a0holds that America is fundamentally racist, yet teaches individuals to view every social interaction and person in terms of race. Its adherents pursue \u201cantiracism\u201d through the end of merit, objective truth and the adoption of race-based policies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.7889908256881\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">She is here to break a tie on the nomination of Kiran Ahuja for the Office of Personnel Management. Ahuja is set to be the first Biden official confirmed via tiebreaker (Harris broke a tie on a procedural vote for Colin Kahl, but not on final confirmation) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ieMn90Ub3K\">https:\/\/t.co\/ieMn90Ub3K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seungminkim\/status\/1407393075924770818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/hawley-warns-biden-nominee-will-usher-in-new-era-of-racial-engineering-in-federal-government\/?taid=60d2c08a7dda3e0001b6b161&#038;utm_campaign=trueanthem&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slammed<\/a> the nomination, claiming that Ahuja would \u201cbring critical race theory back into federal government training into every level of federal personnel stronger than ever,\u201d and bring about a \u201cnew era of racial engineering\u201d within the U.S. government. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/13\/jen-psaki-critical-race-theory-1619-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Psaki Claims \u2018Responsible\u2019 Education Includes Teaching Kids Critical Race Theory, 1619 Project)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While serving as the head of a nonprofit, Ahuja promoted the work of Ibram X. Kendi, the director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/62549152-how-to-be-an-antiracist?page=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claims<\/a> that \u201cthe only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahuja wrote in a blog <a href=\"https:\/\/philanthropynw.org\/news\/building-anti-racist-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> that \u201cAmerica was built by design. We are dealing with the cost,\u201d and promoted a bail fund used to free Portland-area Antifa rioters.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration hailed Ahuja\u2019s confirmation, starting, \u201cAhuja is a qualified, experienced and dedicated public servant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]e are looking forward to [Ahuja] leading \u2026 in \u2026 protecting the safety of the work force, empowering federal employees, and building a federal work force that looks like America,\u201d a White House spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/22\/us\/kiran-ahuja-office-personnel-management.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Personnel Management was targeted by hackers in 2015, in one of the largest data breaches in United States history. Hackers, believed to be sponsored by the Chinese government, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/09\/07\/21-million-people-hacked-blame-goes-to-outdated-govt-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stole<\/a> personal information from the files of 21 million government employees. A security review <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/07\/28\/postal-opm-hacks-show-feds-cyber-security-not-very-secure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found<\/a> that the agency did not implement proper security protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris broke a Senate tie to confirm President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Tuesday.The OPM manages all federal civilian employees and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281068,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kiran-ahuja-e1624456432626.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"OPM Nominee Confirmed After Republican Delay Over Concerns Critical Race Theory Could Seep Further Into Government","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kiran-ahuja-e1624456432626.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"OPM Nominee Confirmed After Republican Delay Over Concerns Critical Race Theory Could Seep Further Into Government","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571411","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}