Cory Booker claims DEI 'help us to hire the best of the best'

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) defended the practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the government because it means hires are the result of a “more inclusive search.”

President Donald Trump signed three executive orders during his first days in office that effectively brought about the end of DEI. First, he ordered all DEI employees to be placed on administrative leave. Then, with another executive order, he gave all DEI offices in the federal government 60 days to close down. Finally, he reinstated merit-based opportunities by repealing several orders from the past, one as far back as 1965 under Lyndon B. Johnson.