Republicans Are Helping Democrats Embed Systemic Racism In So-Called ‘Defense’ Bill
By funding scientific study according to students' and researchers' race rather than their achievements, this bill will likely damage U.S. pre-eminence in science.
By Joy Pullmann
November 18, 2021
Yet another big-spending bill being negotiated in Congress would create new programs and send millions of additional dollars to deepen divisive racial identity politics within U.S. institutions. It would further indebt the United States to its top foreign adversary, China.
“There’s a lot of people in the House who have different concerns with different pieces of” the bill, House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith, D-Washington, told Bloomberg this week. To sideline those concerns, supporters attempted to attach the $250 billion S. 1260, the so-called United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, to a larger defense bill that is easier to sell to constituents as needed for “national security.”
That attempt failed Wednesday night. Instead of being attached to the defense bill known as NDAA, S. 1260 will be sent to conference between House and Senate Democratic leadership.
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