Executive Order: Nationalized Equitable Outcomes
On February 16th, the President of the U.S. issued an Executive Order to advance racial equity through the federal government with a goal to ensure equal outcomes across all sectors. Following the lead of DEI officers and departments at universities, the federal government will now mandate equity enforcement through agencies nationally with a goal “to advance an ambitious, whole-of-government approach to racial equity…and to continuously embed equity into all aspects of Federal decision-making.”
The enforcement arm of this massive bureaucracy will be “Agency Equity Teams” that will ensure equal outcomes for the entire US population. Major federal agencies “shall, within 30 days of the date of this order, ensure that they have in place an Agency Equity Team within their respective agencies to coordinate the implementation of equity initiatives and ensure that their respective agencies are delivering equitable outcomes for the American people.”
Issued by Executive Order, the new bureacracy will be funded by American taxpayers without approval from Congress.
“Each agency head shall support ongoing implementation of a comprehensive equity strategy that uses the agency’s policy, budgetary, programmatic, service-delivery, procurement, data-collection processes, grantmaking, public engagement, research and evaluation, and regulatory functions to enable the agency’s mission and service delivery to yield equitable outcomes for all Americans, including underserved communities.”
In addition to housing, jobs and healthcare, the order will target science and AI: The Teams will “promote equity in science and root out bias in the design and use of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence… When designing, developing, acquiring, and using artificial intelligence and automated systems in the Federal Government, agencies shall do so…in a manner that advances equity.”
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