Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took purpose at Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth over the weekend, delivering a blistering critique of the Trump appointee’s newest stance on variety, fairness and inclusion.
He additionally provided a fiery new tackle the DEI acronym.
In a video shared on X (previously Twitter), Jeffries slammed Hegseth and different Trump officers who’re anti-DEI as “dumb effing people.”
Jeffries’ feedback got here as he denounced the reported removal of books from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis — together with works on slavery, the civil rights motion and the Holocaust.
“The outrageous Naval Academy e book ban targets Maya Angelou and the Holocaust, however excludes Adolf Hitler,” Jeffries wrote alongside the video. “This have to be reversed instantly.”
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Hegseth, who has led efforts to eradicate DEI programming within the army, responded on Fox News throughout an look on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo.
“That’s how far they’ve fallen. It’s astonishing, not shocking,” Hegseth mentioned, dismissing Jeffries’ criticism. “In fact, they don’t like the truth that we’re ripping DEI out of the army and making it colorblind and merit-based.”
