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DoD eliminated most DEI jobs well before Trump took office

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While the Pentagon has aggressively pushed to eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and positions following President Donald Trump’s executive orders, most DEI roles were eliminated well before the president took office.

In early 2024, the Government Accountability Office kicked off a review of the Defense Department’s DEI workforce in response to a mandate in the Senate report accompanying the fiscal 2024 defense policy bill. 

At the same time, the Defense Department was implementing a separate provision from the same law requiring it to reduce all DEI positions to GS-10 or below by summer 2025. The watchdog focused its review on how DoD was responding to that provision.

When the GAO began its audit, it identified 188 DEI-related positions across the department. In response to the 2024 defense policy bill, the watchdog found that the Pentagon eliminated 32 of those roles and restructured another 115 positions. It left the Pentagon with only 41 DEI roles — 25 held by military personnel and 16 by civilians.

“DoD retained those positions because they said the legislative provision that required them to reduce its workforce did not apply to those 41 and that was either because they were a GS-10 or below or their primary duties were not focused on DEI-related activities,” Cathleen Berrick, GAO’s managing director, told Federal News Network. 

The Pentagon ultimately disbanded the remaining 41 DEI positions that survived the cuts following Trump’s executive orders aimed at curbing DEI efforts across the federal government.

Federal law requires agencies to maintain offices that handle equal employment opportunity complaints. A key component of EEO compliance also includes providing regular training to employees and supervisors on anti-harassment policies, civil rights protections, and the complaint process. Berrick said of the 41 disbanded roles, many were reassigned to EEO roles, while others moved into training-related positions that were not explicitly tied to DEI.

“Just to give an example, there was a DEI training manager position that was modified to become a leadership, education and training advisor. There was really a variety, but we did see quite a few reassigned to the EEO type positions, and then a number of others assigned to training,” Berrick said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, however, has recently begun to target Military Equal Opportunity (MEO) and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) programs, ordering a department-wide review of their policies and processes.  The real title of the policy, Hegseth said, is “No More Walking On Eggshells.”

“Too often at the Defense Department, there are complaints made for certain reasons that can’t be verified that end people’s career. We need to reform that process completely so commanders can be commanders,” Hegseth said on social media platform X.

DEI-related contracts

As part of its review, the GAO also examined how the Defense Department used contractors to support the development and implementation of DEI activities across the department.

To identify relevant contracts, GAO relied on the Federal Procurement Data System, the government’s repository of all federal contracts. Berrick said they worked with GAO contracting experts and relied on interviews with DoD officials who oversaw DEI programs to develop a robust keyword search.

That search identified just 44 DEI-related contracts — most of them were related to DEI training. 

“We don’t know the exact status of all the 44 at the time we did our work. DoD did tell us that they weren’t going to exercise options on a number of those contracts. And we do know that after we followed up, after the new executive orders were issued in January, they were in the process of taking additional steps to stop all of their DEI activities to include contracts,” Berrick said.

While Hegseth’s recent contract terminations included consulting and IT services, most cost-cutting efforts have focused on eliminating DEI and climate change-related programs.

If you would like to contact this reporter about recent changes in the federal government, please email anastasia.obis@federalnewsnetwork.com or reach out on Signal at (301) 830-2747

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Black Lives Matter Activist in Boston Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges – Scammed Donors to Fund Her Lifestyle

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A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston named Monica Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty to federal charges this week, admitting that she scammed donors and used their money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

Cannon-Grant was previously held up as an admired figure. The city of Boston named her the Bostonian of the year at one point for her ‘social justice activism’ and she was even recognized by the Boston Celtics basketball team for her efforts.

She is now facing a minimum of two years in prison.

The New York Post reports:

BLM-linked activist admits conning donors to fund her lavish lifestyle

A once-celebrated Boston social activist has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors — including Black Lives Matter — out of thousands of dollars that she used as a personal piggy bank.

Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty Monday to 18 counts of fraud-related crimes that she committed with her late husband while operating their Violence in Boston (VIB) activists group, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.

The activist scammed money — including $3,000 from a BLM group — while claiming it was to help feed children and run protests like one in 2020 over the murder of George Floyd and police violence.

Cannon-Grant also conned her way into getting $100,000 in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits — which she used to pay off her personal auto loan and car insurance policy.

But she has now confessed to transferring funds to personal bank accounts to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon — and even a summer vacation to Maryland.

Just amazing.

Here’s a local video report:

She should pay back every penny.

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Keith Olbermann Backpedals Furiously With Apology for Threatening CNN’s Scott Jennings – Jennings Responds (VIDEO)

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As the Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, former MSNBC host and generally unhinged leftist Keith Olbermann, appeared to threaten CNN’s conservative pundit Scott Jennings on Twitter saying, ‘You’re next motherf**ker.’

Well, Olbermann may have gotten a phone call or a visit from the FBI because today he walked back those comments with a full-throated apology.

RedState has an update:

To quickly recap, Scott Jennings, a Salem Media Network radio host and conservative CNN political commentator, reacted to breaking news on Monday that Kimmel had been reinstated by tweeting, “So basically his employer suspended him for being an insensitive pr**k, and we don’t live in an authoritarian regime? Got it.”

This enraged Olbermann, who proceeded to tweet what many, including Jennings, perceived to be a threat. “You’re next, motherf**ker. But keep mugging to the camera.” Jennings tagged Patel and included a screengrab of the tweets in response.

Though the FBI hasn’t commented as to whether an investigation was launched, Olbermann ostensibly appears to have thought twice about what he tweeted and deleted, apologizing profusely in tweets posted on Tuesday and claiming what he wrote was “misinterpreted”:

See Olbermann’s tweet below:

Scott Jennings, always a class act, offered this hilarious response:

Keith Olbermann really needs help. The guy is just so out of control.

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Where is Lance Twiggs? Kirk Assassin’s Transgender Lover Has Vanished

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Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson and roommate Lance Twiggs

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner – a male-to-female trans named Lance “Luna” Twiggs.

The FBI used Robinson’s texts with his transgender partner to solidify that Robinson was the assassin. Lance Twiggs has not been charged with any crime; however, federal authorities are still investigating.

Last week, Utah authorities released the text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his transgender lover, Lance Twiggs, sent shortly after Kirk’s assassination.

Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray announced seven charges against Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. They will also be seeking the death penalty.

Robinson was charged with:

– Count 1: Aggravated murder (capital offense)
– Count 2: Felony reckless discharge of a firearm causing bodily injury
– Count 3: Felony obstruction of justice for hiding the firearm
– Count 4: Felony obstruction of justice for discarding the clothing he wore during the shooting
– Count 5: Witness tampering for asking roommate to delete incriminating messages
– Count 6: Witness temperating for demanding trans roommate stay silent, and not speak to police
– Count 7: Commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child

Jeff Gray released the chilling texts between Tyler Robinson and his “love” Lance Twiggs.

Read the text exchange here:

Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 1
Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 2

Lance Twiggs was reportedly cooperating with the FBI, however, according to the Daily Mail he has seemingly vanished.

“If [Lance Twiggs] ever comes back, it will be in a body bag,” a neighbor said to the Daily Mail. “That’s not a threat – I’m just saying that there are so many people who want a piece of him he’d be mad to show his face in public again. This was a generational event.”

The Daily Mail reported:

The Trans boyfriend of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin has fled their former lovenest – and locals tell the Daily Mail they never want to see him again.

Lance Twiggs, 22, was led away for questioning when police swooped on the smart three-bed condo he shared with accused gunman Tyler Robinson, 22.

Shaken neighbors say the part time plumber has not been back to the $320,000 property in St. George, Utah – one declaring: ‘Good riddance. I never want to see either of them again.’

His beaten-up Infinity compact is still parked in his space with his work gear tossed across the back seat and a sandwich wrapper and a drink on the front passenger seat.

Upstairs lights have been left on for more than a week and notes and Amazon packages are piling up outside the home owned by Twiggs’s devout Mormon family.

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