The former head of diversity and inclusion at former President Joe Biden’s State Department was asked point blank at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing Tuesday to justify diversity, equity, and inclusion in American foreign policy.
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, who was chief diversity and inclusion officer at the State Department under Biden, testified before the Oversight and Intelligence Subcommittee and defended her work against searing critiques by the panel’s chairman, Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla.
She explained to Mills that by the end of her tenure, her office had a budget of “about $7 million.”
“Can you just explain to me, how did this funding advance American interest overseas? … How did DEI and the office within the State Department help our overseas security and national security interests?” Mills asked Abercrombie at the hearing,…
