Republican 2023 Budget Proposal Would Ban Critical Race Theory in Military

Originally Published on Breitbart

The conservative House Republican Study Committee’s 2023 budget proposal released Thursday includes a provision that would ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the United States military.

The RSC’s “Blueprint to Save America” is the committee’s first budget proposal that calls for such a ban, amid efforts by the Biden administration to double down on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the military. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), is a Navy reservist who has grilled Pentagon and military leaders on those initiatives.

The proposal states:

The RSC Budget remains committed to an effective, strong military force focused on defending the homeland and free of politicization of any type. Identity politics and Critical Race Theory (CRT) have no place in our military.

Unfortunately, under the Biden administration there have been a number of disturbing examples of CRT and other woke ideologies finding favor in the Armed Forces. Under the Biden administration, the Pentagon spent almost 6 million man-hours on woke discussions about extremism and ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ training.

Last year, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday placed Ibram X Kendi’s book How to Be an Antiracist, on the Navy’s reading list. Kendi’s work promotes fundamentally anti-American ideas such as that the U.S. is a racist country and that capitalism is a racist idea. In February 2022, National Defense University’s Institute for Strategic Studies hosted an event on Wednesday making ‘the case for global justice and democratic socialism’ as a means to combat China’s rise.

“The RSC Budget would ban teaching CRT in the U.S. military and in educational institutions under the Department of Defense,” it adds….