Biden State Department Celebrated ‘DEIA Accomplishments’ Days Before They Were Scrapped By Trump

The Biden State Department celebrated its leftwing DEI agenda just days before President Donald Trump scrapped the whole enterprise.

Earlier this month, the State Department released a report titled “U.S. Department of State DEIA Accomplishments 2021-2024 – Building A Workforce That Reflects America.” The report cataloged some of the radical measures the agency took to embed the far-left ideology into America’s foreign policy.

The report, which has since been removed from the State Department website, lists specific actions the State Department took in service of the DEI agenda, ranging from DEI events at embassies and consulates to formal policies dedicated to pushing the ideology.

“We made our recruiting fairer and more transparent. We incorporated commitment to diversity and inclusion as an important metric for Foreign and Civil Service evaluations,” former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says at the outset of the report. “When the people making decisions on behalf of the American public don’t reflect the full diversity of our nation, we all lose, and that impacts our national security.”

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At the consulate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for example, officials “commemorated Black Consciousness Month with an event in which employees learned about inclusion of Afro-Brazilian culture through Capoeira music and LGBTQI+ culture through Vogue dance.”

The embassy in Panama City, meanwhile, “hosted inclusive language training on how the Spanish language discusses women and gender,” also discussing Panamanians with disabilities, LGBTQI+ Panamanians, Afro-Panamanians,” and “indigenous communities — specifically Wounaan Panamanians, and HIV-positive Panamanians and the stigmas they face.”

The embassy in Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh created a “DEIA Library for all ages, featuring over 150 books in English and Khmer on DEIA and the traditions and cultures of both the United States and Cambodia.”

The events at the consulates and embassies were not just one-off DEI celebrations, but were instead part of the State Department’s broader approach under former President Joe Biden and Blinken.

The agency also created a data dashboard with the demographic characteristics of civil service and foreign service officials, instituted a biennial “DEIA climate study,” and hosted “Start Out Right,” the first DEIA summit intended to “train 250 first-time Department managers from across the world on inclusive leadership.”

The Biden administration launched a whole-of-government approach to embed the DEI agenda throughout the entire federal government and its bureaucracy, establishing DEI offices, policies, and new roles for those tasked with advancing the ideology. The Trump administration has already rolled back these measures and is actively rooting out potential efforts by bureaucrats within the executive branch to rename and conceal the DEI agenda.

The Daily Wire documented the rise of DEI at the Biden State Department, which appointed activists to high-paying positions and tasked them with spreading leftwing dogmas on race and gender across the world. Those two officials — special envoys tasked with advancing far-left dogma on race and gender — both appear to have vacated their positions at the State Department.

Trump also signed an executive order intended to purge DEI from the State Department and all executive agencies. In response to the order, the Office of Personnel Management issued a memo directing agency heads to “send a notification to all employees of DEIA offices that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/end all DEIA initiatives, offices, and programs.”

The federal Office of Personnel Management also provided agency heads with a template email to send to bureaucrats, which explains that the DEI actions of the previous administration “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination.”