The three-star general nominated to head the U.S. Space Command declined to endorse the Biden administration's diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the military at a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
declined to endorse the Biden administration’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the military at a Senate hearing on Wednesday., nominated by President Biden earlier this month to be the new force’s second commander, also defended his firing of an officer who went public with criticisms of the Pentagon leadership’s drive campaign to impose diversity in the military, calling the effort Marxist ideological subversion.
In an exchange at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination with Sen. Eric Schmitt, Gen.“Do you support DEI initiatives in the military?” Mr. Schmitt, Missouri Republican, asked several times.WhitingMr. Schmitt said that was not his question and pressed the general to say whether he backs DEI, which he described as “rooted in cultural Marxism.”“That’s not what DEI is either,” Mr. Schmitt countered.
The GOP lawmaker also pressed the nominee about statements by Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, who was tapped by President Biden to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gen. Brown told the publication Defense News in February that “there is still a lot to do” in promoting DEI and gender and racial equality initiatives in the armed services, which he said were dealing with a “cultural shift.
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