A whistleblower who used to work for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently exposed the agency for making diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a “central” part of USAID under the Biden-Harris administration. The whistleblower’s testimony comes as President Donald Trump’s administration and the Department of Government Efficiency effectively shut down USAID this week.
Mark Moyar, a USAID whistleblower who previously worked for the agency from 2018 to 2019, told Fox News, “Samantha Power’s emphasis on DEI was part of a larger Biden administration effort to infuse DEI into every federal agency and we saw this with very negative effects all over the place and you have people taking time off from their jobs to attend these indoctrination sessions and clearly pushing the message that people are divided into oppressor groups and victim groups and that there’s this white rage and white extremism running all over the place, which is basically not non existent.”
Fox News reported that the whistleblower said “far left theories” were given “legitimacy” during the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. The whistleblower also claimed that other countries started taking the United States less seriously after DEI became a “central” part of USAID’s efforts.
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“It’s particularly disturbing that not only were they pushing within the organization, they were actually funding DEI events all over the world, you know, DEI comic books or DEI workshops and so I think this can only undermine our image abroad because most people outside of this country recognized DEI for the silliness that it is and the divisiveness that it causes,” Moyar told Fox News.
Moyar explained that Samantha Power, the former USAID administrator, also required everything to be “viewed through a gendered lens” as part of the push for DEI at USAID.
“So you had all these gender consultants as well as DEI consultants taking huge amounts of taxpayer money to do this sort of analysis,” Moyar added.
USAID’s archived website features an entire page on DEI goals and policies that were previously promoted by the agency prior to the second Trump administration.
A quote from Power featured at the top of the DEI page states, “Each of us has a responsibility to address bigotry, gender discrimination, and structural racism and uphold individual dignity… This isn’t just one of our values; it’s our mission—one hand extended out to another to meet people where they are and treat others as equals.”