Just like the rest of the swamp, the Pentagon is woke. And now, there is legislation to try and fix it. Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana is leading the efforts to amend next year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which funds the Pentagon, to include anti-woke reforms to the military. If Banks’ amendment passes, it would ban “invented and identification pronouns” at the Pentagon, end required DEI training, and codify a Trump executive order to replace diversity messaging with merit messaging on military job boards.
President Donald Trump was reelected with a mandate to root out leftist ideology from our government. In large part, the president has taken action to fulfill that mandate—he ordered that every diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucrat be fired, reversed several radical Biden executive orders and proclamations, and enacted many anti-woke policies at the Department of War. However, the president alone can only do so much. Legislation passed by Congress brings permanence — so the Marxist ideology will stay out no matter who is in the White House next.
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