STARRS has a Request for Help form to help military servicemembers harmed by the CRT/DEI agenda (or the C19 vax mandate). Looks like the State Department is already ahead with their remedies for those employees negatively affected by this ideology. Also, see the second article–even left-leaning State employees said the DEI agenda was out of control.
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News
Hundreds of State Department employees will receive restitution after an internal review under Secretary Marco Rubio found they were denied promotions during the Biden administration for not meeting new diversity, equity and inclusion standards.
In addition to removing the diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) precept from the State Department’s promotion process, officials said roughly 295 employees who were marked down for not showing they would “seek diversity in staff” will now receive pay increases, administrative promotions and letters of commendation.
“The Trump administration is providing restitution to State Department employees who were adversely impacted by the previous administration’s ideological agenda,” a State Department official said.
The department conducted an internal review of 7,319 employees who competed for promotion in 2024. Those employees were judged on five precepts: communication, leadership, management, knowledge and DEIA. Under President Donald Trump, the DEIA precept was replaced with a new criterion: “fidelity,” Fox News Digital previously reported.
Promotion board members were instructed to low-rank employees who exhibited a “lack of sensitivity to the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA),” according to a State Department official.
The DEIA promotion precept was damaging to those who displayed “little indication of seeking diversity in staff,” the official claimed.
“The Biden administration imposed ideological litmus tests on civil servants, penalizing competent and deserving government employees in the process,” principal deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott said.
“Under President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the State Department rewards excellence, which is the right thing to do for our workforce, for our country, and for the American people.”
The Trump administration’s restitution plan marks a broader rollback of DEI-based policies across federal agencies, part of Trump’s pledge to restore merit-based advancement in government service.
The State Department’s previous hiring guide for 2022–2025 required foreign service employees to “demonstrate impact in diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility,” according to the internal documents.
Entry-level applicants were expected to proactively seek to “improve one’s own self-awareness with respect to promoting inclusivity.” Mid- and senior-level supervisors were told to recruit and retain diverse teams, respond immediately to noninclusive workplace behaviors and “consult with impacted staff before finalizing decisions.
On his first day in office in 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to pursue policies that advance “equity.”
“Affirmatively advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity is the responsibility of the whole of our Government,” he stated.
“It is therefore the policy of my Administration that the Federal Government should pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.”
‘Actively Discriminatory’: State Department Employees Celebrate Rubio’s Anti-DEI Move
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | The Daily Signal
Even self-described far-left State Department employees are happy about Secretary Marco Rubio’s latest move to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to an unofficial State Department Reddit page reviewed by The Daily Signal.
“I’m a believer in DEIA and pretty far to the left,” one person who claimed to be a foreign service member wrote on Reddit. “However, the way it was practiced in DoS was completely performative and was actively discriminatory.”
The Daily Signal found the post on a Reddit page for “individuals who work for or aspire to work for the U.S. Foreign Service.” The Reddit is not endorsed or supported in any way by the U.S. State Department.
The posts refer to Rubio offering restitution to State Department employees who the Trump administration found were denied promotions during the Biden administration for not meeting new DEI standards.
Roughly 295 employees who were marked down for not showing they would “seek diversity in staff” will now receive pay increases, administrative promotions, and letters of commendation, Rubio said.
“I heard multiple country teams and hiring panels give preference to based on DEIA categories and had better qualified people lose out,” one post from someone claiming to be a Foreign Service officer says. “For example if the top choice for a position was a white male and the second was a POC, we were told by leadership to go with the POC specifically for DEIA.”
“The scoring for promotion was also crazy,” the post continued. “I had a direct report regularly spewing racist and sexist crap. I went through the EXTREMELY painful process to hold that person accountable. I also terminated a local staff for racist actions and held trainings for my staff on multiculturalism and respectful workplace. I was also a EEO coordinator and dealt with numerous issues there. I got a 3.5. My friend organized a multicultural lunchtime potluck and a GLIFA happy hour (in a country that is extremely open and friendly to LGTBQ+) and got a 4.5. That kind of BS is what gave the right-wing ammo to point at the excesses of DEIA and completely destroy the idea of DEIA in the department.”
Another person posted that he or she was not affected personally but had a co-worker who was passed over due to DEI considerations.
“I was not affected personally by the changes announced yesterday, but I have at least one coworker who claims they would have been promoted in 2024 had they scored higher on the DEIA precept,” the post said.
Another self-proclaimed Foreign Service officer identified himself or herself as “a big supporter of diversity initiatives that are actually implemented correctly.”
“I was recommended but not promoted in 2023. In 2024 I was mid ranked,” the person posted. “In one of those years (can’t recall), when we got the breakdown of scores, all of my scores were above the promotion average, but I had an abysmal DEIA score, despite documenting efforts. I don’t qualify for the administrative action announced unless I happen to be one of the 13 mentioned at the end – I’m guessing those are specifically identified BFFs. But I am very happy for everyone who is getting promoted after throwing out the ludicrous DEIA score. It is well deserved.”
A State Department political appointee told The Daily Signal they were “glad to see that employees from both the left and the right saw how crazy the DEI policies were at the State Department.”
First published in The Daily Signal
STARRS NOTE: While it’s rather concerning there are “pretty far to the left” people working for the State Department, at least even these DEI supporters got a taste of how damaging and divisive the DEI agenda is.
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