Hegseth quips ‘99.9’ percent of DEI initiatives are gone from the military

Minister of Defense Pete Hegsetth He delighted that Trump’s administration deleted the “99.9%” initiative for diversity, equality and inclusion (dei) from the army during a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

President Donald Trump He questioned Hegsetth about whether the army had eradicated 100% of the effort Dei under his leadership, as members of the cabinet distributed updates about attempting their own agencies to purify such policies.

“99.9, sir – I’ll get that last point,” Hegsetth said.

Trump’s administration has discovered several initiatives to suppress the Dei initiatives in the military, including the signature of the executive order in January, forbidding transgender people to register and openly serve in the army.

However, two federal judges issued in March in March, blocking Trump’s administration from conducting the prohibition while the lawsuit is ongoing. In the verdict rendered on March 19, American District Judge Ana Reyes of Washington, DC, said the Prophet of Trump’s administration “soaked in Animus” and discriminated against on the basis of transgender persons.

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“Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender persons who sacrificed themselves – some risked their lives – to provide others with the same rights of protection that military prohibition seeks to deny them,” Reyes wrote in the decision.

Trump signed another executive command in January by banning the contents of the Dei in schools K -12 that receive funding. Although the Academy of Military Service is originally exempted because they have not been classified as K-12 institutions, the Pentagon has issued instructions to the Naval Academy in order to remove books related to Dei from its library in March.

In the list of nearly 400 books, “How to Be Anti -Ranse” and “Certified from the Beginning: The final history of racist ideas in America” ​​Ibram X. Kendi, as well as “our time is: power, purpose and struggle for Fer America”, former MP Georgia Stacey Abrams.

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Kendi is the founder of the Emeritus Director of the Center for AntiraCistical Research at the University of Boston. He became national prominent after the death of George Floyd 2020. In the hands of a police in Minneapolis.

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Hegsetth made it clear that the Pentagon would not tolerate any dei initiative under his hour.

“The president’s guideline (legal command) is clear: no more dei on @Deptofdefense,” Hegsetth said in the post on X, formerly Twitter, in January. “Pentagon will adhere to it immediately. There is no exception, changing the name or delay.”

Associated Press contributed to this report.