WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal Foundation’s (AFL) Center for Legal Equality launched an investigation into the Biden Administration’s efforts to radically reshape the federal government through the deployment of “Agency Equity Teams” at twenty-three federal agencies, which are manded by President Biden’s Executive Order on “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government.”  

Section 2 of the Executive Order instructs each agency head to establish an “Agency Equity Team” by March 15, 2023, and to staff these teams with personnel from every possible component of each agency (policy, legal, communications, financial assistance, etc.). The Order charges each “Agency Equity Team” with the “implementation of equity initiatives,” “delivering equitable outcomes” for the American people, and ensuring “continued equity training and equity leadership development.”

Despite this flowery language, “equity” simply means judging people, and discriminating against them, based solely on the color of their skin. This Executive Order effectively turns the federal government into an “equity” cult that establishes a morally reprehensible and illegal system of preferences based entirely on race. This is wrong and unlawful, and America First Legal will continue to lead the charge against this “equity” lunacy. 

AFL filed Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain the names and resumes of each person selected to be on these teams. While AFL will fight President Biden’s unlawful efforts to reshape the federal government, the American people deserve to know precisely which bureaucrats the Biden Administration has empowered at each agency to administer these racially discriminatory policies. 

Read the FOIAs here.

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