Taxpayers Paid $3 Billion for Radical DEI Kickbacks Under Biden
The Democrats' Marxist equity agenda was costly and prioritized dismantling American exceptionalism over national security and economic prosperity.
By Victoria Manning
January 9, 2025
President Joe Biden gave more than $3 billion across 30 agencies to outside contractors to implement his diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) executive order in federal government agencies. These billions are on top of the already exorbitant cost of existing DEI funding for each department.
On Biden’s first day in office, January 20, 2021, he began implementing his DEI agenda, making it his top priority for America. DEI initiatives even took priority over the defense of the nation and the fentanyl crisis. Biden’s day-one executive order to advance “racial equity” through the federal government signaled to America and federal bureaucracies that his most urgent issue was cultural Marxism—not China, Iran, or the border crisis.
“Equity,” as opposed to “equality,” is a term closely aligned with communism used to force equal outcomes rather than equal opportunities. In June 2021, Biden doubled down and issued another executive order requiring the federal workforce to promote DEI in its departments. This maneuver set the stage for billions of wasted taxpayer dollars on cultural Marxist indoctrination that doubtless reshaped the work of federal employees in agencies such as the FBI, Health and Human Services, the Secret Service, and the Defense Department.
Biden’s executive orders required every department to create DEI plans to “promote a data-driven approach to increase transparency and accountability.” Those plans led to new highly compensated DEI departments, yet the agencies still hired outside contractors to implement Biden’s equity demands. Many of those were sole-sourced contracts that weren’t competitively procured—the contractors were handpicked. (So much for equal opportunity when the government controls outcomes.)
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