NASA's woke boss admits agency wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on 'shameful' DEI programs

NASA has ended its diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEI) programs aft each national agencies were directed to 'terminate' the initiatives.

Staff received an email Wednesday from acting head Janet Petro, which said the abstraction bureau is 'taking steps to adjacent each bureau DEIA offices and extremity each DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump's enforcement orders.'

The bid is titled 'Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.' 

NASA's email admitted that 'these programs divided Americans by race, wasted payer dollars, and resulted successful shameful discrimination.'

The abstraction agency has spent astatine slightest $22.4 cardinal annually connected specified programs.

DailyMail.com had uncovered millions of payer dollars were dished retired for DEI information analytics and to assistance the bureau 'embark connected a task to incorporated and profoundly engrain diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility successful the civilization and business.'

Petro, who is the archetypal pistillate to pb NASA arsenic its acting administrator, besides urged unit to study colleagues who person attempted to disguise DEI programs with coded language.

'There volition beryllium nary adverse consequences for timely reporting this information,' the email reads. 'However, nonaccomplishment to study this accusation wrong 10 days whitethorn effect successful adverse consequences.'

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the US national government's quality resources agency, has besides created an email relationship to cod reports of suspected DEI initiatives.  

Kyle Sorensen, a bundle technologist who has worked for NASA, told DailyMail.com: 'I americium truly blessed that they banned these programs. 

'I americium adjacent happier that the Trump admin was astute capable to cognize that the enactment would conscionable effort to rename themselves.' 

 Petro, however, appeared not to consciousness the aforesaid astir DEI successful 2021. Speaking to Engineering News-Record, she elaborate however she has been the number astatine the Kennedy Space Center.

'I often recovered myself either the lone female, oregon lone 1 of a couple. There weren’t galore minorities either,' she said. 

'A large portion of this is ensuring an situation wherever everyone feels included, has a dependable and feels harmless to explicit their opinions. 

'I person mentored galore minorities on their nonrecreational journeys, and arsenic director, I americium committed to starring Kennedy Space Center to person a divers and inclusive situation wherever everyone tin thrive.'

While the acting administrator's email appeared to knock the DEI initiatives, the aforesaid connection was sent to each national agencies to walk to their employees. 

The Trump medication sent the missive to each heads and acting heads of authorities agencies connected Tuesday, informing them each national employees successful DEI roles indispensable beryllium placed connected paid permission by 5pm ET Wednesday. 

The missive besides demanded each nationalist DEI-focused web pages beryllium taken offline, which was astir the aforesaid clip NASA sent the email to unit and removed its DEI website.

The abstraction agency's leafage present features a '404' mistake with the message: 'The cosmic entity you were looking for has disappeared beyond the lawsuit horizon.'

An worker shared connected X that they 'had DEI  grooming and it was portion of the worker reviews.' 

While Nancy Vreils, prime records manager astatine NASA, shared: 'DEI has ruined NASA. Innovation is non-existent.'

NASA has engaged successful DEI efforts for implicit a decade, archetypal creating the Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Implementation Plan successful 2012. 

The agency's  DEI spending from 2022 to the contiguous has mostly focused connected biology programs.

More than $1 cardinal successful grants went to 'assessing biology justness successful aerial quality, 'advancing biology justness successful Los Angeles and 'examining biology justness done unfastened root unreality autochthonal tools.'

One grant, surpassing $150,00, was fixed to Cleveland State University to amended monitoring and absorption of municipality histrion equity.

Oregon State University was awarded a committedness of much than $450,000 to survey exile farming decisions successful Uganda.

The grant's statement showed that the results of the task volition 'directly enactment place-based accusation of exile self-sufficiency that is called for successful Uganda's exile effect plan.'

It's unclear however the findings would beforehand NASA's aims.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of dollars were fixed to the Oceanography Society for 'building diversity, equity and inclusion successful water sciences.'

LMI consulting received implicit $2 cardinal successful 2023 for NASA to 'embark connected a task to incorporated and profoundly engrain diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility successful the civilization and business.'

Another $3 cardinal went to Booze Allen Hamilton successful March to enactment NASA's 'Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity DEI information analytic specialty' and $7 cardinal was announced past period for six 'minority-serving institutions.'

One erstwhile worker told DailyMail.com successful November that NASA's absorption connected diversity, equality and inclusion was 'destroying America's quality to vie with China successful abstraction due to the fact that the Biden-Harris medication volition lone money programs that diagnostic it.'

'The DEI happening tin make an situation wherever things are not focused and accountability gets diluted,' different NASA employee, who works astatine the agency, said.

'Real scientists don't springiness a hoot astir DEI oregon different hyper-political c***.

'There are bully scientists doing real, bully enactment there. [NASA] has go highly bureaucratic.'