The Department of Defense (DOD) could spend nearly $270 million in taxpayer dollars to further the diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEI) agenda from fiscal years 2022 to 2024.
If the agency’s request for DEIA funding is included in the final legislation, the department will have spent $269.2 million on diversity initiatives across fiscal years 2022, 2023, and 2024.
The department’s Strategic Management Plan for fiscal years 2022 to 2026 listed one of its goals as “inculcate DEIA principles across all DOD efforts.”
“DEIA has impacts on both the Department’s workforce and its mission, and therefore it should be examined beyond the traditional human resources lens by which it historically has been viewed,” the strategic management plan reads.
The department also plans to “institutionalize the advancement of DEIA and the value of diversity to the Department’s mission.”
From The Daily Wire:
The DOD created its Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion in September 0f 2022, with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appointing General (Ret.) Lester Lyles to serve as its chair. Lyles explained in a statement that the committee would “provide the Secretary of Defense with advice and recommendations to improve racial/ethnic diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity as a force multiplier in the military.”
