The Department of Defense has told Congress it can’t provide necessary briefings on diversity training because it doesn’t have enough people to fill diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) positions, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Understood.
Congress requires the Department of Defense to produce a report detailing how much the entire military spends on diversity training, DEI administrator pay, and the impact on recruitment and retention across the force, with a deadline of It was March 1st. according to It is based on last year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets national defense policy for the coming fiscal year. However, the DCNF found that the Defense Department is nearly two months behind its report deadline because the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act reduced salaries for DEI employees and effectively disbanded the department.
“Due to DEI staffing shortages, this report has been delayed. There is no estimated completion date at this time,” a Congressional official representing the Department of Defense (DOD) said in a communication with DCNF. (Related: Department of Defense won’t respond to new study that questions research supporting military DEI push)
Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, who chairs the House Military Personnel Subcommittee, told DCNF that the Pentagon’s response is “simply covering up Joe Biden’s politicization of our military.” He said it shows that.
The 2024 NDAA caps annual salaries for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) administrators at $70,000, according to data provided by the Department of Defense Personnel Office to Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmidt. Most staff will have to find other jobs or accept difficult pay cuts. . It also prohibited the Department of Defense from hiring in DEI-focused roles until Congress receives the results of an audit of all Department of Defense offices and programs.
🚨FY24 NDAA focuses on eliminating military wakefulness. 🚨
✅ Ban on funding for cathode ray tubes
✅ Ban funding to politically biased counter-extremism working groups
✅Freeze hiring of DEI bureaucrats
✅Cuts and caps are paid to DEI bureaucrats
✅ Includes Parental Bill of Rights pic.twitter.com/5nvvQEN5y2— Military Republicans (@HASCRepublicans) December 13, 2023
“The Biden Pentagon spends more than $100 million a year on DEI, but clearly does not have enough DEI staff to submit a simple report to the House Armed Services Committee on how the funds are being spent. That’s ridiculous,” Banks told DCNF.
The military calculated the total cost and hours required for countering extremists and training on February 5, 2021 after the January 6 Capitol riot at $1 million and 5.8 million man-hours. . With this in mind, Congress requires the military to report the total cost of training in DEI, the amount spent on salaries for civilians who work in DEI positions, and the amount of money spent on DEI and extremist training conducted in the past five fiscal years. They were asked to submit an explanation of how the objectives of the training were met. By training. ”
Congress sought to examine how the Pentagon’s emphasis on diversity and inclusion affected hiring, promotion, discharge, and courts-martial for violations of the Pentagon’s extremism orders and regulations. Lawmakers asked for clarification on the 2023 training materials covered by the bill.
“House Republicans fought hard to gut Biden’s DEI bureaucracy at the Pentagon,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told DCNF at the time. Rogers touted House Republicans’ efforts to return the military’s focus to “capability and lethality, not Biden’s far-left political priorities.”
The Department of Defense did not immediately respond to DCNF’s request for comment.
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