'Disturbing': Whistleblower fumes at Biden-era agency promoting DEI program as department's 'mission'

The now-archived website for the virtually unopen down United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has a leafage devoted to pushing DEI which a erstwhile worker whistleblower told Fox News Digital was portion of a larger Biden administration effort. 

"Each of america has a work to code bigotry, sex discrimination, and structural racism and uphold idiosyncratic dignity... This isn’t conscionable 1 of our values; it’s our mission—one manus extended retired to different to conscionable radical wherever they are and dainty others arsenic equals," erstwhile USAID head Samantha Power, who previously served multiple roles successful the Obama administration, is quoted arsenic saying connected the archived websites DEI page. 

The website explains that the USAID was "committed to a diverse, equitable, inclusive workplace wherever everyone has an accidental to thrive" and that it has implemented a DEI strategy that "commits USAID to improving and enhancing diverseness passim the Agency, enhancing inclusion and equity for everyone successful the workplace, and strengthening accountability for promoting and sustaining a divers workforce and an inclusive Agency culture."

Mark Moyar, a USAID whistleblower who worked successful the section from 2018 to 2019, spoke to Fox News Digital astir however Power and others successful the section made DEI a apical priority. 

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USAID recovered itself connected the chopping artifact successful caller weeks owed to the DOGE effort to chopped authorities waste (Getty Images)

"Samantha Power's accent connected DEI was portion of a larger Biden medication effort to infuse DEI into each national bureau and we saw this with precise antagonistic effects each implicit the spot and you person radical taking clip disconnected from their jobs to be these indoctrination sessions and intelligibly pushing the connection that radical are divided into oppressor groups and unfortunate groups and that there's this achromatic rage and achromatic extremism moving each implicit the place, which is fundamentally not non existent," Moyar explained. 

Moyar told Fox News Digital that "far near theories" were fixed "legitimacy" successful the aftermath of the George Floyd question successful 2020 and that erstwhile DEI became a "central" absorption astatine USAID it resulted successful different countries taking the United States little seriously. 

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Samantha Power, head of the United States Agency for International Development, delivers a code during a sojourn to El Salvador astatine the Central American University successful San Salvador, El Salvador June 14, 2021.  (REUTERS/Jose Cabezas)

"It’s peculiarly disturbing that not lone were they pushing wrong the organization, they were really backing DEI events each implicit the world, you know, DEI comic books oregon DEI workshops and truthful I deliberation this tin lone undermine our image abroad due to the fact that astir radical extracurricular of this state recognized DEI for the silliness that it is and the divisiveness that it causes," Moyar, writer of the publication "Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency", said. 

"We besides saw this arsenic good with women's empowerment that everything for Samantha Power had to beryllium viewed through a gendered lens. So you had each these sex consultants arsenic good arsenic DEI consultants taking immense amounts of payer wealth to bash this benignant of analysis. And I don't deliberation they truly person thing to amusement for it and I deliberation you'll find what we recovered successful different places wherever this has been pushed, that DEI lone makes things worse. It divides radical and radical tensions betwixt groups are worse than they were before."

President Donald Trump speaks earlier signing an enforcement bid barring transgender pistillate athletes from competing successful women's oregon girls' sporting events, successful the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

USAID recovered itself connected the chopping artifact successful caller weeks arsenic portion of President Trump's program to escaped the national authorities of discarded on with his run pledges to escaped DEI from the national bureaucracy. 

"For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers arsenic it funnels monolithic sums of wealth to the ridiculous — and, successful galore cases, malicious — favored projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight," the White House said Monday.

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Musk has meantime slammed the bureau arsenic a "viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hatred America," and reported successful an audio-only connection connected X connected Sunday that "we’re successful the process" of "shutting down USAID" and that Trump reportedly agreed to shutter the agency.

Democrats person slammed the Trump administration's efforts connected USAID. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., accused Trump of starting a dictatorship portion she protested extracurricular USAID office connected Monday. 

"It is simply a really, truly bittersweet time successful America. We are witnessing a law crisis," Omar said. "We talked astir Trump wanting to beryllium a dictator connected time one. And present we are. This is what the opening of dictatorship looks similar erstwhile you gut the Constitution, and you instal yourself arsenic the sole power. That is however dictators are made."

Fox News Digital's Emma Colton contributed to this report