As war with China over Taiwan looks increasingly likely and tensions with Russia heat up thanks to the war in the Ukraine, you’d think that the US military would start taking things seriously and start focusing more on warfighting than finding woke commissars to push a leftist agenda on the troops.
But, of course, that’s not what is happening and the military is as woke as ever. So, to start fighting back against that, Rep. Chip Roy of Texas has introduced a bill, the “Restoring Military Focus Act” that would get the military refocused on warfighting.
It would do so by eliminating the position of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer appointed by the Secretary of Defense, eliminating the Senior Advisor for Diversity and Inclusion appointed by the Secretary of each military department, and prohibiting the use of federal funds to establish any other, similar positions at the Department of Defense.
Announcing the plan in a statement, Rep. Roy said:
The Pentagon’s job is to develop our men and women in the Armed Forces into a united, lethal, and battle-ready force to defeat our enemies and defend our interests. It is not supposed to be a woke social engineering experiment wrapped in a uniform. The American people gave House Republicans the power of the purse in November; we need to deliver on our promises and restore mission focus to our Armed Forces.
He also said, in the statement:
“The Defense Department has allocated tax-payer dollars to support Chief Diversity Officers tasked to establish ‘training in diversity dynamics’ and ‘evaluations and assessments of diversity.’ We need to stop the politicization of the Department of Defense and keep our Armed Forces focused on their goal of defending our national security.
“The Restoring Military Focus Act is an important and necessary step to push back against the progressive agenda at the Department of Defense.”
An explainer for the anti-woke bill provides that “We need to stop the politicization of the Department of Defense and keep our Armed Forces focused on their goal of defending our national security. The Restoring Military Focus Act is an important and necessary step to push back against the progressive agenda at the Department of Defense.”
This isn’t the only time that Roy has taken on the woke military recently. He also sounded off on the sort of initiatives the Department of Defense is focusing on in a statement about the latest NDAA, saying:
This National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — a 4,408-page, $860 billion bill crafted behind closed doors, dropped on the House floor with less than 48 hours to read, and passed only by suspending the House’s normal rules — is an insult to our military and the American people.
Our military should be focused on defending our republic and defeating our enemies, full stop. It is ridiculous that this defense bill included things like the reauthorization of the Coral Reef Conservation Act and taxpayer funds to “combat vaccine hesitancy” abroad, or a mandate to transition non-tactical military vehicles to electric vehicles. And while it drives us deeper in debt, the bill directs the DoD to support initiatives to provide “debt restructuring or relief to developing countries with unsustainable levels of debt.” It also green lights the Pentagon to move forward with an abortion travel fund for service members and their families.
Thanks to the work of Republican leaders, this NDAA did not draft our daughters and took steps to protect unvaccinated service members. I am grateful for their hard work, but I could not support the final bill. I am indeed pleased that the bill rescinds the Biden Administration’s disastrous military COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but it does not protect unvaccinated service members from retribution, reinstate those wrongfully fired over the mandate, or expunge the records of those who lost or face losing GI bill benefits as a result.
I introduced legislation that would do all of these things; Republicans owe it to the heroes harmed by Biden’s strategically foolish mandate to pass this or similar legislation next Congress. And we cannot stop there. Republicans should fight to eradicate every radical social experiment and climate project at the Pentagon and restore its focus to protecting our people and defending our interests.
By: Will Tanner. Follow me on Twitter @Will_Tanner_1
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