Cory Booker Claims DEI ‘Help Us to Hire the Best of the Best’
Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, February 9, 2025
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) defended the practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the government because it means hires are the result of a “more inclusive search.”
President Donald Trump signed three executive orders during his first days in office that effectively brought about the end of DEI. {snip}
“This is stunning to me, especially because they‘re really charging this word ‘DEI’ as if it‘s something that undermines the ability for the government to hire the best people. It‘s actually the opposite of that,” Booker said on CNN News’s State of the Union Sunday. “When we‘re trying to hire the best of the best, having a more inclusive search to go to HBCU’s or Hispanic-serving institutions to find as big of an applicant pool as possible, to me, these are the kinds of things that help us to hire the best of the best.”
{snip}
“Donald Trump wants to try to demonize ideas of inclusion, of equity, of fairness, and that is unfortunate and frustrating. And he‘s using that as a way of ripping out entire aspects of our government that are vital,” Booker said. “Using terms like DEI as a justification for making us less safe, we should be outraged that organizations and agencies created by Congress in a bipartisan way, have now been torn down by a president who has no authority or does not have the legal justification for doing that.”
{snip}
