Political Quotes

“My amendment asks the House to support striking the funding for the Office of Resolution Management, Diversity and Inclusion. The Office of Resolution Management, Diversity and Inclusion in the VA is charged with promoting woke DEI initiatives. My amendment would strike over $86 million of funding for this woke office which provides training for VA employees to teach them about their implicit bias. Just for you to understand what implicit bias means, Mr. Chairman, because it was something I had to look up myself, implicit bias--this is ACORN--implicit bias refers to a person's unconscious attitudes about other communities that can affect their behavior to those members. Unconscious attitudes? We are funding $86 million for people to be trained about things they feel that they don't know that they feel? This makes absolutely no sense for the care of our great veterans. Instead of spending millions of tax dollars on woke ideology, we should put that money toward making the VA an agency that actually helps our heroes and our great veterans who served our military and our country and who desperately need good care. When I am at home in my district and I speak to veterans there, that is what I hear them talk about to me constantly: is the care that they want to receive at the VA, but yet they are failed so many times?…”