Biden admin’s spending indicates plan to increase DEI focus in final year of Biden’s first term
by Spencer Lindquist
Daily Wire
President Joe Biden’s State Department privately disclosed to Congress that it spent $77 million taxpayer dollars on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts in the last two years — and it plans to eclipse that total in the final year of Biden’s first term.
The administration was forced by a provision in last year’s spending bill to disclose to Congress exactly how much it has spent on DEI. That private report, obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire, shows Biden has spent $77 million in 2022 and 2023 on DEI-related initiatives.
Its spending calculations, however, are based on a narrow definition of DEI — the spending, according to the disclosure, went entirely towards DEI efforts in the Bureau of Global Talent Management, which states on its website that its primary goal is to “sustain a diverse, talented, and inclusive workforce.”