Another Republican Comes Out Against Woke Military Spending

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Pushing woke agenda ‘undermines our moral position and ultimately degrades our strength,’ Sen. Wicker says

 

The ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee signaled on Thursday his support for slashing Pentagon programs that support a "woke" cultural agenda.

 

Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) during a speech on the Senate floor accused the Biden administration of "shaping the Department of Defense into an institution that is spearheading toxic social policies instead of restoring military strength."

Wicker’s comments come on the heels of a Washington Free Beacon report showing Republican support in the House for budget cuts to the Pentagon’s progressive cultural priorities, such as diversity and inclusion training and gender pronoun training. Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.), chair of the House Armed Services Committee, told the Free Beacon this week that his committee is "examining programs to determine if they actually provide the capabilities we need to defeat the threats we face. If they don't, they'll be cut."

"In the wake of a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan and increasingly hostile behavior from China and Russia, the president should have prioritized military readiness," Wicker said, according to an advance copy of his remarks obtained by the Free Beacon. "Instead, he decided, inexplicably, to spend his first two years in office focused on something else—on shaping the Department of Defense into an institution that is spearheading toxic social policies instead of restoring military strength. This agenda has harmed military readiness and alienated a large portion of potential military recruits."