The Department of Defense and a contracting organization were compelled to abandon a racially-driven hiring pipeline following the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision overturning affirmative action, The Daily Wire has learned.
The Defense Department awarded almost $760,000 in taxpayer funds to the University of Missouri-Kansas City to create a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) career pipeline program that discriminated against white and male students in an attempt to reach “equity-focused” goals, The Daily Wire exclusively reported.
The proposed DEI pipeline was kneecapped when the Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action policies were unlawful in the June 2023 case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
“Immediately following the summer 2023 Supreme Court decision, the internship criteria was revised in compliance with the ruling,” Stacy Downs, the Director of Strategic…
