Congress’s Variety and Inclusion workplace is ready to be formally scrapped beneath the most recent GOP guidelines bundle.
The 36-page proposal formally eliminates the congressional Variety & Inclusion Workplace, which was first launched by Democrats in 2020 as a part of an effort to discriminate towards white candidates.
Funding for the workplace was already eliminated in a authorities spending invoice handed in March, with plans to merge it into a brand new Workplace of Expertise Administration.
Nonetheless, Democrats had hoped to revive funding for the workplace in the event that they regained management of the Home.
Different notable modifications embody renaming the Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability again to its former title, the Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform.
The Workplace of Congressional Ethics may also be renamed because the Workplace of Congressional Conduct.
The bundle additionally schedules votes on a dozen Republican-backed payments, together with these geared toward enhancing border safety, imposing sanctions on the Worldwide Felony Court docket, and requiring proof of citizenship to forestall voter fraud in federal elections.
Congress is at present scheduled to reconvene on Friday to vote to elect a speaker, swear in its members and vote on the principles proposed bundle.
It’s at present unclear whether or not the incumbent Home Speaker Mike Johnson has the votes to stay in workplace, partly due to the GOP’s razor skinny majority within the chamber.
Nonetheless, his possibilities lately acquired a big increase following Donald Trump’s choice to endorse his speakership.
“The American folks want IMMEDIATE reduction from all the damaging insurance policies of the final Administration,” Trump latest wrote on Reality Social.
“Speaker Mike Johnson is an effective, onerous working, spiritual man. He’ll do the appropriate factor, and we are going to proceed to WIN. Mike has my Full & Complete Endorsement.”
Thanks, President Trump! I’m honored and humbled by your assist, as at all times.
Collectively, we are going to shortly ship in your America First agenda and usher within the new golden age of America.
The American folks demand and deserve that we waste no time. Let’s get to work! pic.twitter.com/ljGrB08dRh
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) December 30, 2024
