Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are still discriminating against white farmers despite a change in administration and the threat of litigation, a civil rights watchdog told the Washington Examiner, amid new whistleblower allegations accusing the agency of offering race-based loan relief under former President Joe Biden.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), a well-known constitutional law litigator, is threatening legal action against the Trump-selected Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins over racially discriminatory programming allegedly still in place at the USDA.
In February, Rollins issued a directive rescinding all of her department’s DEI programs, declaring that the USDA is instead prioritizing equality, meritocracy and color-blind policies. Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the USDA has been comprehensively reviewing DEI programming in an effort to reverse the “woke priorities of the Biden administration,” the agency said in a “First 100 Days” press release.
