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Everything is lacking, they say.
France, like so many other European countries, is battling massive wildfires during this hotter-than-average summer season.
In France, where the battle against the flames has been going on for weeks, the firefighters have been hailed as bona fide heroes, with even President Emmanuel Macron chiming in:
France, Spain battle deadly wildfires
Macron praises firefighters and emergency crews
@kripatistic and @samikshaa3 have more pic.twitter.com/dpXHZHmOoF— WION (@WIONews) July 28, 2026
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your courage, your mobilization, your selflessness and your sense of commitment. I am very proud of what you do. […] Thank you for this chain of solidarity, thank you from the entire nation. This battle, we will win it together.” Emmanuel Macron
We will win this battle together, Macron said. But in reality, firefighters and emergency workers feel let down and abandoned by the French Republic.
So much so, that they called for a strike to protest the lack of resources and support from the authorities.
– Thousands of firefighters in France have started a strike following “disastrous” early talks with the government.
Among their main demands are better salaries, new trucks, as the average fire truck in France is around two decades old, and for more cancers to be recognized…
— Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts (@officialrnintel) August 13, 2026
Politico reported:
“French firefighting unions are calling for a nationwide protest next month after accusing the government of failing to adequately support them during a summer of unprecedented heat.
‘We are asking for the necessary resources to protect French citizens’, said Xavier Boy, a spokesperson representing several firefighters’ unions.
The strike will take place Sept. 29. Firefighters are allowed to walk out on the job but must maintain minimum staffing levels to respond to emergencies.”
French firefighters are current on strike
They still respond to emergency calls obviously. They want more funding / equipment
https://t.co/jdcdx6w6ai
— Actively Anti Communist – 2026 will suck
The unions demand a ‘modernization’ of France’s civil security framework and a ‘massive’ recruitment of personnel.
The investments, they demand, must match the risks France faces today in Europe – the planet’s fastest-warming continent.
Read more:
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report, Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine,” a commissioned report examining insurance coding practices, perverse financial incentives, and the provision of sex-rejecting procedures for minors.
According to the report, more than 225 hospitals and health systems have established pediatric gender programs nationwide. Additionally, approximately $50 million in insurance claims were filed for puberty blockers billed using an endocrine disorder diagnostic code, and nearly $11 million in claims for patients ages 13-17 were billed using a diagnosis code for “precocious puberty.”
According to Mayo Clinic, “Precocious puberty is when a child’s body starts developing secondary sexual characteristics (the physical changes of puberty) earlier than usual—typically before age 8 in girls or before age 9 in boys.”
Today, Vice President JD Vance, as Chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and Secretary Kennedy referred hospitals and clinics identified by the report to the Department of Justice and the HHS Office of Inspector General, respectively, for possible violations of federal law.
In a press release announcing the report, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, said, “Doctors and hospitals must put children’s health ahead of ideology and financial gain.”
“This report identifies troubling billing practices that demand scrutiny. HHS will follow the evidence, protect taxpayers, and hold accountable anyone who broke the law or violated the trust of patients and families. Under President Trump’s leadership, we are restoring transparency and integrity to American medicine.”
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz added, “CMS has a duty to ensure taxpayer dollars are spent lawfully and honestly. When billing practices obscure what care was actually provided, especially when children are involved, we have an obligation to follow the facts. We will protect the integrity of our programs, demand accountability, and make sure the American people are not footing the bill for sex rejecting procedures that inflict potentially irreversible harm on young patients.”
Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brian Christine noted, “Our responsibility as healthcare professionals, first and foremost, is to do no harm. As HHS’ commissioned report Wolves in White Coats details, the medical establishment created what the report describes as ‘captive patients,’ placing vulnerable children on a path toward potentially lifelong medical interventions. Under the Trump Administration, HHS is committed to protecting children from irreversible sex-rejecting procedures, following the evidence, and restoring trust in American medicine.”
The report recommends strengthening oversight of insurance coding practices, enhancing program integrity, and ensuring appropriate review of potentially improper billing practices. It also encourages continued evaluation of clinical practices and policies related to pediatric “gender medicine” and outlines recommendations intended to improve accountability across the healthcare system.
Vice President Vance shared on X, “For years now, some hospitals and healthcare providers have been subjecting children to horrific, experimental treatments in service of radical gender ideologies. Today, thanks to the Wolves in White Coats report released by @HHSGov, we know why: profit. It turns out that convincing vulnerable children to reject their gender can create patients for life, earning hospitals tens of thousands of dollars in additional revenue per child.”
He continued, “The report contains deeply disturbing allegations, and I encourage every American and every parent, to read it. More than just pushing these procedures on kids, hospitals and providers may have been defrauding Medicaid and private insurers by using misleading or fraudulent billing codes to get insurance to cover the costs.”
In a video accompanying the news, VP Vance added, “Hey everybody, this is Vice President J.D. Vance. I’m here with my friends and colleagues, of course, our great Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Admiral Bryan Christine, the Assistant Secretary for Health. Parents bring their children to doctors because they trust them. They trust doctors to tell them the truth, and they trust hospitals to put their children ahead of ideology and profit.”
“But when that trust gets violated, parents deserve to have a government that will stand up for them and for their kids and do something about it. Today, the Trump Administration is proud to announce we’re doing exactly that.”
Secretary Kennedy noted, “Today, HHS released Wolves in White Coats, a report examining pediatric gender medicine and insurance billing across America. The findings raise serious questions about what families were told what insurers were told and how these procedures were built.”
VP Vance continued, “Today, Secretary Kennedy and I referred hospitals and clinics identified by this review to the Department of Justice and the HHS Inspector General for possible violations of federal law.”
“These allegations are crazy, and they demand investigation. When children may have been harmed and families misled, it’s on those of us in power to find the truth and to seek justice for kids who are harmed by these doctors.”
Assistant Secretary Christine noted, “Under the previous administration, my predecessor, Richard Levine, promoted what he called gender-affirming care for minors. And there’s nothing caring about that.”
“These are sex-rejecting, mutilating transgender procedures promoted by the Biden administration. And thanks to President Trump’s leadership, we’re changing course.”
“The Wolves in White Coats report issued by my office at HHS examines a medical system that subjected children to profound interventions while serious questions remained about evidence, about informed consent, and about financial incentives. The report found more than 225 hospitals and health systems established pediatric gender programs nationwide where they preyed on vulnerable children and told families that their kids needed life-altering medical treatments when what they really needed was compassion and counseling.”
“So many of these people got rich not by doing what was good for the patient, but by actually mutilating these kids. It was disgraceful. And if someone broke the law, we are going to hold them accountable,” said Vance.
“If the medical establishment failed children, we will confront that failure and restore the sacred duty to do no harm,” added Christine.
“And if our public health institutions lost the trust of American families, we’re gonna earn it back with truth, with transparency, and with gold standard science,” Secretary Kennedy continued.
“Together, we’re gonna protect our children And importantly, we’re going to restore trust in public health. When you walk into the doctor’s office, you have to know that they’re going to do the best by yourselves, by your children, by your family. And we will hold accountable anyone who would betray that trust. We’ve got so many great doctors. We can’t have a few bad doctors tarnish the whole lot. Thank you, everybody,” Vance concluded.
For years now, some hospitals and healthcare providers have been subjecting children to horrific, experimental treatments in service of radical gender ideologies. Today, thanks to the Wolves in White Coats report released by @HHSGov, we know why: profit. It turns out that… pic.twitter.com/B7K7iumpYC
— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 13, 2026
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Fincke flew four space missions, having spent 549 days in space.
Experienced NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is leaving the space agency.
Fincke ranks fourth among NASA astronauts in accumulated time in space (549 days), and his nine spacewalks added to a total of 48 hours and 37 minutes outside the Space Station.
His departure from NASA comes seven months after he experienced a medical emergency aboard the International Space Station, an incident that triggered a premature end to the SpaceX Crew-11 mission, and the first medical evacuation from space.
.@NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is departing the agency on Wednesday after 30 years of service. Throughout his career, he flew four missions, spent 549 days in space, and completed nine spacewalks in support of the @Space_Station.
He ranks fourth among NASA astronauts in… pic.twitter.com/h3K0vvWncG
— NASA Space Operations (@NASASpaceOps) August 12, 2026
CNN reported:
“Although he is leaving NASA, Fincke said he remains ‘deeply committed to the work of exploration’.
‘I am profoundly grateful to my crewmates, the teams on the ground, our international partners, and the families who make this work possible’, Fincke, who first joined the astronaut corps in 1996, said in a statement. ‘I am excited to carry those lessons forward and help prepare the next generation of engineers, explorers, and leaders. Together, we will return humanity to the Moon, travel to Mars, journey outward to the planets and moons beyond Earth, and someday reach for the stars – all while caring for Earth, the most beautiful planet in our solar system’.”
“The vast majority of his days in space were spent aboard the football-field-size ISS. His last stay at the orbital outpost garnered global attention when Fincke was overcome with a mysterious ailment, losing the ability to speak for roughly 20 minutes, Fincke later told news outlets, including the AP.”
“The ordeal prompted an urgent response from NASA. Fincke and his fellow SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts — NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos — returned home from the space station in mid-January, weeks earlier than expected.”
NASA is not in the habit of sharing details of medical issues to protect astronauts’ privacy, but Fincke identified himself weeks after the incident, saying that it remains a mystery that NASA and medical researchers are working to solve.
Read more:
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The Biden corruption cover-up is unraveling.
Newly declassified documents reveal the FBI had information from at least 14 informants involving the Bidens, Ukraine and Burisma. But instead of going after Biden, the FBI went after the people investigating him.
They called them potential conduits for “Russian disinformation.” Protect Biden. Bury the Ukraine allegations. Discredit the informants. Target the investigators.
This wasn’t law enforcement. This was a Biden firewall.
Now Kash Patel has shut down the Foreign Influence Task Force and its activities are under investigation.
On Stinchfield, we expose how deep this operation went and why this time, accountability must mean prosecutions.
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More cray-cray from the WNBA.
A WNBA task force of team presidents and general managers met yesterday to discuss transgender athletes in their sport but did not arrive at any eligibility rules.
The “W” in the league’s name is very confusing form these team presidents and general managers.
Via ESPN.
A WNBA task force of team presidents and general managers met Wednesday and discussed transgender athletes but did not arrive at any eligibility rules, according to a statement sent to ESPN by a league spokesperson.https://t.co/woN41EFRHC
— ESPN (@espn) August 13, 2026
They plan on continuing the discussions in the coming weeks and months.
The WNBA will continue the discussion possible for months to decide who belongs in their “women’s” league.
Statement from WNBA Spokesperson: “Today’s meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol directed at players online. We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months. We will approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league. There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others.”
The WNBA held a meeting to decide who belongs in a women’s league.
Their conclusion is they’ll need “weeks and months” to figure it out. pic.twitter.com/f8otgKZBEw
— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) August 13, 2026
This is what happens when you have a subsidized sports league for 30 years operating in the dark and finally new talent shows up and brings millions of new fans to the league.
No one had any idea this women’s league was so nutty.
Former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, eagerly await your committee’s decision.
Royce White had this to say, “They’re not giving black women a voice.”
Royce White after CNN canceled an interview with him:
“They’re not giving black women a voice.” pic.twitter.com/0bAJEOSIda
— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) August 11, 2026
Royce added this – He is my shero!
CNN this is so disgusting and bigoted. 2 cis women refusing to affirm my Black Trans Lesbian identity. 1 of them is White, so that’s her white privilege and the other is a self hating Uncle Tom bootlicker! They are gatekeeping femininity and womanhood.
Royce White for President… pic.twitter.com/DnAZlrZKq0
— Royce White
(@Highway_30) August 13, 2026
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Today’s Clacton by-election is being used by the British establishment to try to get rid of Farage.
Voting is underway in the Clacton by-election as candidates vie to become its next MP.
In Britain, whenever a Member of Parliament dies, resigns, or is removed, a ‘by-election’ is called; a ‘snap-election’, a vote that is not tied to the electoral calendar.
Today’s by-election will take place in the Clacton constituency (Essex, centered on Clacton-on-Sea, including Frinton-on-Sea, Walton-on-the-Naze, and surrounding areas).
This snap vote was triggered by the resignation of Nigel Farage.
Today my record in public office will be judged by the people of Clacton, not by politicians and the media in Westminster.
I look forward to their verdict. pic.twitter.com/dyzOgLCOER
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) August 13, 2026
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the road seemed paved for Nigel Farage to become the next British prime minister.
Many on the right held high hopes (and we still hold these hopes) that the Brexit hero would solidify his comeback and become a leader with broad public support.
Farage could lead a broad right-wing coalition filled with common-sense ideas that translate into sensible policies – the kind of government that will instantly benefit the British public.
But the Westminster establishment and the Globalist press used accusations of failing to declare gifts and financial support from donors as a weapon to try to mortally wound Farage’s political ambitions.
We’ve seen – as in the case of Marine Le Pen in France – how these allegations can be weaponized by the political and justice systems.
But whatever the reality of these allegations, it’s a fact that the reaction of Farage and his team was not optimal.
For a second, there, many thought it was all over for Reform UK in this political cycle – and it also would be all over for Britain as we know it.
But then, Farage tried a radical idea to circumvent the trap laid out for him.
In the olden days, maybe he could have asked for a trial by combat. Nowadays, he chooses trial by snap elections.
‘The voters will judge me’, he reasoned, as he resigned his MP seat just to run again for it.
But going into his Clacton ‘do or die’ vote, the establishment is trying to hit him with the weapon of ridicule.
It’s certainly not a coincidence, and most probably a machination from the powers that be, that the Reform UK leader ended up facing ‘Count Binface’ in the vote.
Count who? We’re talking about a man with a trash bin in his face as a mask, a freak that exemplifies just how putrid the British political landscape has become.
No one in their right mind wants to spend time thinking about the binface man, but his ‘absurdist political satire with a dash of environmentalism’ is being pushed by the Labour government and the Globalist media in the hopes of sinking Farage once and for all.
As I write this, the polls have opened in Clacton for this regrettable episode.
Even outlets hostile to Farage at this point predict that he will win the vote, but we’re left wondering what other dirty tricks are in store against the right-wing hope for Britain.
But one thing is clear: for Nigel Farage to be able to save Britain, he can’t be vulnerable to such accusations of petty mishandling of funds – he will have to survive much worse pressures from corrupt bad actors and avoid infiltration from sworn enemies of his nation.
Because Binface may be his rival in the poll, but his enemies are many, and encroaching on positions of power.
The Clacton by-election results are expected in the early hours of Friday – stay tuned for updates.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Wednesday announced criminal charges against five non-citizens accused of illegally registering to vote or casting ballots in the 2024 general election, along with one U.S. citizen accused of registering her non-citizen husband.
Dana Nessel’s sudden charges raise an obvious question: Is she finally acting because the evidence became impossible to ignore, or is she still running interference for Jocelyn Benson?
The charges come only after The Gateway Pundit exposed the presence of at least SIX non-citizens appearing on the DHS Worst of the Worst criminal aliens on Michigan’s voter rolls in May— including a high-profile Iranian national who had voted in multiple elections. James O’Keefe recently used our reporting in a viral undercover video.
One of those individuals, Iranian national Afshin Masheli, had a serious criminal record and a final order of removal, yet remained registered and had voted in multiple Michigan elections.
The night before O’Keefe filmed Masheli on his front porch, O’Keefe spoke directly with this reporter about the Gateway Pundit findings. The following day, O’Keefe released video of the confrontation, bringing national attention to the case that Michigan officials had ignored.
Neither Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson nor Attorney General Dana Nessel has ever publicly addressed the Gateway Pundit reporting on Masheli or the other non-citizens identified in that investigation.
Now, more than a year after those reports, Nessel’s office has charged the following individuals.
Here are the names of the individuals charged with the charges they are facing. Below each name is an explanation about how this could have been avoided if Michigan Democrat Sec of State Jocelyn Benson would agree to allow the DHS to remove non-citizens from Michigan’s voter rolls:
Michael Akioya, 39, of Oak Park — two misdemeanor counts for making false statements on an absentee ballot application and return envelope. Akioya is a lawful permanent resident who allegedly voted by absentee ballot in 2024 while attesting he was a U.S. citizen.
How did Akioya get away with making false statements on his absentee ballot application? Why is MI Sec of State Jocelyn Benson fighting so hard to put any safeguards in place to prevent non-citizens from registering to vote in the first place?
Kimberley DiDonato, 60, of Rose Township — charged with election forgery (5-year felony) and using a computer to commit a crime (7-year felony). DiDonato, a U.S. citizen, is accused of posing as her non-citizen husband and registering him to vote online in April 2024. She later canceled the registration and claimed she was “testing the system.”
Why is the MIchigan Secretary of State website allowing non-citizens to register? Should Michigan’s voter rolls really be relying on the “honor system”? Should non-citizens be able to cancel out the vote of American citizen with a single push of a button on a computer, using the Michigan Secretary of State’s official website?
Alondra Harker, 26, of Three Rivers — charged with fraudulent registration (misdemeanor). Harker, a limited-term alien resident, is accused of registering and voting in person in 2024.
Why are there no procedures available for clerk’s to use to prevent non-citizens from walking into their offices and registering to vote?
Harumi Michael, 60, of Wolverine Lake — multiple felony charges including election law forgery and attempting to vote as an unqualified elector. Michael, a lawful permanent resident, allegedly registered and voted in person in 2024.
Why has Michigan made it so easy for a non-citizen to walk into a polling place, cast an unlawful ballot and cancel the vote of an American citizen?
Robert Piva, 67, of Roseville — charged with election law perjury, attempting to vote as an unqualified elector, and fraudulent registration. Piva, a lawful permanent resident, allegedly registered online in September 2024 and voted early in-person the following month. He has claimed the vote was an “experiment.”
It appears that Robert’s “experiment” worked. Cheating elections is easy in Michigan.
Basanth Sadasivian, 29, currently residing in the United Kingdom — charged with attempting to vote as an unqualified elector. Investigators say he registered and voted through the Federal Post Card Application system using a Bloomfield Hills address.
UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Absentee Voting Act) voting is one of the most ridiculously insecure forms of voting in America. Democrats know this, which is why they were dumping millions of dollars into “registering American citizens” to vote in 2024 who were “living overseas.” When an “oveseas voter” registers to vote online through the FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance Program) system, they have an option to skip the part of the registration form that asks for identification if they don’t have any. In Michigan, “overseas” voters are supposed to at a mininume have ties to Michigan, but this is not something clerks are required to do, nor are the UOCAVA “voters” registered to vote being checked by any one or any agency to prove they are real people who are citizens of the United States.
Nessel’s office said the cases were referred by the Michigan Department of State. Yet the Attorney General and Secretary of State remained silent for months after The Gateway Pundit published evidence of non-citizens — including criminal aliens — remaining on the rolls and casting ballots. The new charges come as Benson continues her campaign for governor while overseeing the very voter rolls that allowed these cases to occur.
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The CIA doubted the veracity of a purported threat from Iran to the President’s life during the July NATO summit in Ankara, according to an article published in the Washington Post Wednesday. The information on that threat, which led Trump to secretly leave Air Force One via a catering cart to fly home on a second plane, came from Israel’s spy services (as the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week). According to new reporting from the Post, America’s intelligence community did not agree with the Israeli assessment, with one U.S. intelligence official describing the assassination threat as “Israeli-derived, not U.S.-generated, and viewed [by the CIA] as low confidence.”
The Pentagon has lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones—about 25 percent of its total fleet—during the Iran war, the Washington Post reported separately Thursday citing U.S. officials, estimating the losses amounted to over $1.3 billion.
The spokesperson for Iran’s central military headquarters denied U.S. claims of normal maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and said that “no commercial ship or oil tanker has had and will have the possibility of safe transit through this strait without the permission and supervision” from Iran’s armed forces, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported Thursday. The statement came after Trump posted on Truth Social Wednesday that the U.S. has “total control” over the Strait of Hormuz, adding “I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT.”
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Israel “will under no circumstances” withdraw its troops from territory the IDF currently occupies in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria, after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday made similar comments in a post on X.
A report published Wednesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on August 12 predicted that oil demand will fall by 1.6 million barrels a day in 2026. Continued disruptions from the Iran War, the report said, are undermining efforts to boost global oil supply, which the IEA said is 6.3 million barrels a day lower than this time last year.
The price of Brent Crude oil was $86.60 per barrel on Thursday morning. AAA recorded the national average price of regular gas at $4.07 per gallon.
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Trump administration reforms have ended efforts to turn the State Department into a DEI sales force.
Biden-era guidelines that ordered diplomats to push a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies agenda on foreign governments have been scrapped, according to Fox News.
“Under the Trump Administration, America’s diplomats are tasked with advocating for our national interests on the world stage — not demonstrating adherence to woke political dogmas,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said.
“The State Department is implementing sweeping reforms to the Foreign Service to prioritize merit, refocus training on tangible diplomatic skills, and prepare our nation’s diplomats to deliver America’s answer to our most pressing challenges,” he said.
Biden administration rules spoke of having State Department leaders “raise social inclusion, racial/gender equity, disability, and LGBTQI+ issues with high-level host country interlocutors, especially in countries where these issues are problematic.”
The previous administration’s extreme DEI agenda imposed ideological litmus tests on government workers and robbed nearly 300 Foreign Service Officers of promotion opportunities.
Now the State Department is rewarding merit and providing restitution to those unjustly impacted.…
— Department of State (@StateDept) November 19, 2025
Under former President Joe Biden, DEI advocacy was a criterion for promotion. It is not so now.
State Department guidelines called for diplomats to be “actively working to break down not just race/ethnicity/gender/LGBTQI+/disability biases, but also bias among the civil service and foreign service, U.S. direct hires and contracting colleagues, and within foreign service cones.”
Staff were also ordered to spend their own time wallowing in DEI instruction instead of “depending on others — particularly others from historically marginalized groups” to help them.
Biden-era directive for diplomats to peddle DEI on foreign governments scrapped by State Departmenthttps://t.co/emvfT63bTS
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) August 13, 2026
The reforms are part of the Trump administration’s effort to correct the course of the State Department.
A Federal Register notice from the State Department published in January noted that in its grants and other forms of assistance, the department would not support woke ideology, writing that assistance must “align with State Department policies opposing gender ideology, discriminatory equity ideology, unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, and abortion as a method of family planning overseas.”
“Under previous administrations, U.S. foreign assistance was abused to fund discriminatory diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) policies and similar ideologies that promoted corrosive identity politics rather than alleviating poverty or promoting human flourishing and prosperity,” the document said.
“This ideology, referred to in this rule as discriminatory equity ideology, treats individuals as members of preferred or disfavored groups, rather than as individuals, and minimizes agency, merit, and capability in favor of generalizations,” the document added.
“The promotion abroad of radical DEI activities and the ideology of discriminatory equity ideology that undergirds it, undermines the wellbeing and flourishing of foreign nations and promote radical ideologies.”
The document said any entity receiving U.S. funds cannot use it to support DEI.
“It is the purpose of this rule to end taxpayer support for radical discriminatory equity ideology, directly or indirectly, and to end all forms of unlawful DEI-related discrimination by recipients of foreign assistance, and thereby to unwind efforts of the prior administration, and of nongovernmental and international organizations, that have integrated and encouraged discrimination and discriminatory equity ideology in foreign assistance programs,” the document said.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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