High Country Times

Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) voiced her concerns on the House Floor regarding the Biden-Harris Education Department's allocation of $1 billion towards diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in schools. Her comments were prompted by a report from Parents Defending Education (PDE).

Chairwoman Foxx stated, "A new report from Parents Defending Education (PDE) revealed that the Biden-Harris administration spent over $1 billion of taxpayer money on so-called 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' programming."

She criticized DEI efforts as a persistent focus of the current administration, saying, "DEI is the woke addiction that the Biden-Harris administration simply cannot quit." According to Foxx, these initiatives contribute to divisiveness rather than unity within educational environments. She further noted, "Instead of becoming a more perfect union, DEI turns our schools, communities, and cities into cesspools of divisiveness and hate. And we know DEI bureaucracies are also notorious drivers of campus antisemitism."

Foxx highlighted her concern with PDE's findings: "PDE’s new report is jaw-dropping, and it confirms that this administration was more concerned about contorting the minds of America’s future leaders rather than educating them."

She called for an end to what she perceives as indoctrination in education: "This relentless push to tell students what to think instead of how to think must stop." In closing remarks, she praised former President Trump's stance on DEI: "Fortunately for parents, students, and hardworking taxpayers, President Trump sees DEI for what it is—a cancer that is divisive, excessive, and ineffective."