USDA’s woke boondoggle spent taxpayer dollars on DEI insanity

The USDA is supposed to focus on the food supply. Instead, it emphasized DEI even on seed packets while food inflation surged 23.5% and fertilizer prices skyrocketed 300%.

Dr. Carol M. Swain is the author of "The Gay Affair: Harvard, Plagiarism, and the Death of Academic Integrity" and founder of Real Unity Training Solutions. She was a tenured former professor at Vanderbilt and Princeton Universities. Follow her on X at @carolmswain and Facebook and Instagram at @drcarolmswain.

The DEI seed initiative seems to have been an outgrowth of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 13985, signed in January 2021, which mandated equity action plans across federal agencies. Biden’s EO was issued to encourage workers to seek ways of embedding DEI into their agencies. It no doubt is responsible for much government waste, and, as Rollins said, "There will be no more American taxpayer dollars spent on DEI initiatives or #WOKESEEDS at the @USDA."