Taxpayers Paid $3 Billion for Radical DEI Kickbacks Under Biden
The Democrats' Marxist equity agenda was costly and prioritized dismantling American exceptionalism over national security and economic prosperity.
This piece was originally published at American Greatness on Jan. 9, 2025
President Joe Biden gave more than $3 billion across 30 agencies to outside contractors to implement his diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) executive order in federal government agencies. These billions are on top of the already exorbitant cost of existing DEI funding for each department.
On Biden’s first day in office, January 20, 2021, he began implementing his DEI agenda, making it his top priority for America. DEI initiatives even took priority over the defense of the nation and the fentanyl crisis. Biden’s day-one executive order to advance “racial equity” through the federal government signaled to America and federal bureaucracies that his most urgent issue was cultural Marxism—not China, Iran, or the border crisis.
“Equity,” as opposed to “equality,” is a term closely aligned with communism used to force equal outcomes rather than equal opportunities. In June 2021, Biden doubled down and issued another executive order requiring the federal workforce to promote DEI in its departments. This maneuver set the stage for billions of wasted taxpayer dollars on cultural Marxist indoctrination that doubtless reshaped the work of federal employees in agencies such as the FBI, Health and Human Services, the Secret Service, and the Defense Department.
Biden’s executive orders required every department to create DEI plans to “promote a data-driven approach to increase transparency and accountability.” Those plans led to new highly compensated DEI departments, yet the agencies still hired outside contractors to implement Biden’s equity demands. Many of those were sole-sourced contracts that weren’t competitively procured—the contractors were handpicked. (So much for equal opportunity when the government controls outcomes.)
Deloitte Consulting: $7.1 million contract for DEI consulting services to Health and Human Services Center for Medicaid Services. Deloitte is a far-left organization that bathes in racist equity policies, claiming that “diversity, equity, and inclusion are core” to their values. They also support harmful transgender agendas, donating $1 million to the Trevor Project, which advocates for child gender mutilation.
CALCO Enterprises: $8 million for two non-competitive bid contracts to provide DEI training to the Job Corps program under the Labor Department.
Tyler Federal, LLC: $3.2 million in contracts for DEI database services with the Defense Department.
Timothy Londagin, LLC: At least 3 contracts—$2.9 million for a DEI contract with Health and Human Services and $2.1 million through 2 contracts with the Agriculture Department. These contracts were given to Londagin without competitive bidding. Londagin has a long history of employment in federal government agencies and likely has key connections.
Accenture Federal Services, LLC: $2.8 million for a DEI implementation phase at the Treasury Department. Accenture advocates for the transgender agenda and they fund employee gender transition surgeries through their “transgender-inclusive” health care benefits.
LMI Consulting: $2.4 million to incorporate and “deeply engrain diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility” in the culture and business at NASA. NASA staff recently called on Elon Musk to clean up wasteful DEI spending in the organization.
Booz Allen Hamilton: $3.3 million for DEI data analytics and assessment for NASA in 2024. Yet almost 1,000 employees have been laid off from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab.
The Millennium Group International: $2 million for DEI professional support services for the Department of Homeland Security. They promote “cultural competence” training among other courses.
Grant Thornton: $1 million to the Commerce Department for DEI strategic planning. This company hires based on racial quotas rather than merit, claiming 30 percent of their new hires will be of certain races.
SSG Advisors: $7.4 million to provide the Agency for International Development general support for the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.
The HHS Equity Agenda is Off the Rails
The Department of Health and Human Services may win the award for most woke government agency. In 2022, they spent over $57.4 million on 303 employees to fund a DEI strategic plan that reads like a communist playbook. This plan requires programming to increase cultural sensitivity and DEI propaganda training for all hiring managers. All senior executives have DEI measurements in their performance plans for extra assurance that leaders are complying with Biden’s equity mandates.
The problems are most glaring in the National Institute of Health (NIH), where race plays a factor in grant applications and NIH has a Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office that leads its radical work. It commissioned a study using taxpayer dollars to measure sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation. The published report summary asserts that sex and gender are different and the terms “male” and “female” are used to refer to sex, but “man” and “woman” must refer to gender. This nonsensical “research” is how the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine—a division of NIH—is wasting taxpayer money.
NIH also funded a 2-day webinar that absurdly discussed how cisgender women aren’t the only people who can get pregnant. The training emphasized the importance of helping bisexual cis men, queer women, and transgender people get pregnant. The pro-abortion webinar was filled with speakers promoting twisted ideas such as “gender-affirming” care for youth—otherwise known as sexual mutilation of children.
A so-called expert during the NIH webinar proclaimed it is biased to use the term “women” when recruiting for pregnancy-related research because it excludes trans men and nonbinary people.
CAPTION: A slide from an NIH training webinarAnother NIH “expert” webinar contributor, Bianca Wilson, claimed, “When we really name the role of sexism, misogyny, and patriarchy as core structural elements of U.S. culture that have worked to restrict bodily autonomy of people who can get pregnant, these are systems of oppression that have been focused primarily on women within a heteronormative framework and in terms of their relationship with men.”Translation: Men aren’t required for a lesbian or trans woman to get pregnant—and if you think they are, you’re clearly an oppressor.
All this nonsense is courtesy of today’s Democrat Party and the Biden administration. Obliterating every DEI initiative in the federal government will not only save taxpayers billions of dollars but hiring based on merit and ability will make the nation great again. It’s time to defund DEI.
