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On the recordSeptember 26, 2023
Madam Chair, I rise today to offer my amendment to prohibit funding for the USDA's Equity Commission. Our farmers and ranchers are fed up with a government that is weaponized against them and are fed up paying for commissions that simply should not exist. The USDA Equity Commission was born out of a Biden executive order calling for Federal departments to address, ``racial equity,'' because they believe even agriculture is racist. This Commission made over 30 recommendations to make the USDA more woke. This includes diversity training for farmers and ranchers, expanding language access, and even supporting legislation that removes restrictions on food stamp eligibility based on immigration status, or even criminal records. This commission also opened up the door for Joe Biden's racist $4 billion plan for minority farmers and ranchers to pay their loans because the USDA is racist. Joe Biden's USDA is even holding school lunch money hostage to force a curriculum that sexualizes our children. This administration is acting like a schoolyard bully, saying, if you are not going to do what I want, I am going to take your lunch money. Quite literally. They are holding school districts hostage in order to shove their radical agenda down our throats to ensure biological men are allowed to use the same restroom as five-year-old girls. This is madness.…
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Lauren Boebert
Republican · Colorado

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