Greg Steube: “Our Federal bureaucracy is riddled with wasteful and purposeless offices that do nothing but fuel the flames of…”

“Our Federal bureaucracy is riddled with wasteful and purposeless offices that do nothing but fuel the flames of divisiveness in our government. Why is our Federal Government more concerned with advancing programs that fuel racism over the needs of the American people? These offices seek to treat people differently based on immutable characteristics like the color of their skin or their gender. That should be offensive to all of us in Congress. Mr. Chair, my amendment would eliminate funding for the Communications Equity and Diversity Commission within the FCC. The mission of this woke DEI office is to advance ``equity in the provision of and access to digital communication services.'' Further, it seeks to advance progressive priorities by elevating certain small businesses based merely on the race or gender of the businessowner. Through the establishment of this council, it is clear that the FCC is working for special, politically favored groups instead of the American people as a whole. We are already seeing the products of these DEI policies at the FCC through draft rules implementing an obscure provision of the 2021 infrastructure bill that directed the FCC to prevent ``digital discrimination.'' Your guess is as good as mine as to what that has to do with infrastructure. Democrats on the FCC seek to go beyond the plain letter of this law to define ``digital discrimination'' to include disparate impact as evidence of discrimination.…”