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The Center Square. Republican lawmakers are calling for an inquiry into a new State Department equity position they are calling a “woke czar.”

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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are leading the charge against President Joe Biden’s appointment last month of Desirée Cormier Smith as the first “special representative” for the State Department’s “Equity Action Plan.”

“The Special Representative position continues the Biden Administration’s prioritization of a radical, progressive agenda the American people consistently reject,” the letter said. “Committee Republicans question the necessity of this new position. Further, we are concerned about wasting taxpayer dollars on an undefined role which categorizes and further divides Americans instead of focusing on the Department’s mission to ‘protect and promote U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values and shape an international environment in which all Americans can thrive.’

“The Special Representative is the latest evidence the Biden Administration is willing to devote time, funding, and other government resources to enact divisive policies,” they added.

The State Department said in its announcement that Smith would “help ensure that racial equity and support for underserved communities remains central to our foreign policy….”

Republicans argued that focus is a distraction from bigger national security goals and is actually just a vehicle for advancing a “radical, progressive agenda….”

“The Special Representative makes the United States the global mouthpiece for divisive ideologies rather than democracy, equality, and freedom,” the letter said. “As the American people struggle under the Biden Administration’s domestic and foreign policy, Committee Republicans question the value and wisdom of continuing to pursue an agenda grounded in waste and division. Committee Republicans are concerned with the Biden Administration’s emphasis on ‘equity,’ which – by the Administration’s highest-ranked officials’ own admissions – often runs contrary to the American ideal of equality….”

Democrats welcomed the new role after Smith’s appointment was announced in June….

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(Excerpt from The Center Square. Photo Credit: Getty Images)