Lame Duck Biden Admin Spends $1 Mil in Taxpayer Funds on Foreign DEI Programs

The Biden-Harris administration quietly pushed out $1 million in taxpayer funding late last year for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs abroad, marking a last-ditch effort to cement its left-wing agenda before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, non-public funding documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. The U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Office of Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, in tandem with the State Department, notified Congress just before Christmas that it earmarked the money for several programs that will support "marginalized" and "underrepresented groups" in Indonesia, Guatemala, and Kenya. Part of the spending will see USAID "engage with Indigenous-led institutions to implement an Indigenous language technology program" in Guatemala, where nearly 95 percent of residents speak Spanish.
Just before the State Department finalized the $1 million funding package, for example, Blinken issued an internal diplomatic cable touting sweeping DEI initiatives across the agency, including dedicated "reflection rooms" and "all-gender restrooms" at American embassies abroad, the Free Beacon reported in December. The incoming GOP administration has already pledged to eradicate DEI programming across the federal government.