{"id":14781,"date":"2025-01-16T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14781"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:06:53","slug":"dismantling-dei-will-prepares-series-of-legal-efforts-to-eliminate-124b-in-unconstitutional-federal-programs-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14781","title":{"rendered":"Dismantling DEI: WILL Prepares Series of Legal Efforts to Eliminate $124B in Unconstitutional Federal Programs in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New <\/span>Admin<\/span>istration<\/span> r<\/span>epresents<\/span> \u201c<\/span>once-in-a-generation opportunity<\/span>\u201d<\/span> <\/span>to reduce the size and scope of <\/span>government<\/span><\/span> for good\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

The News: <\/span><\/b>The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) has launched a comprehensive effort to eliminate \u201cdiversity, equity & inclusion\u201d programs in all levels of the federal government ahead of the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. The effort in total represents at least <\/span>$124 billion<\/span><\/b> in federal spending and mirrors the Trump administration\u2019s stated goals of eliminating DEI \u2013 and all race-based programs \u2013 because they are unconstitutional and unlawful, distort the free market through unnecessary regulations, and otherwise waste taxpayer money.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We also created a comprehensive roadmap, outlining ways to bring true equality to the federal government while also increasing efficiency and eliminating wasteful spending. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WILL\u2019s Roadmap to Equality: <\/span><\/b><\/a>In the past four years, President Biden installed a whole-of-government Equity Agenda that infected every corner of the federal bureaucracy with race discrimination. The Equity Agenda wastes billions in tax dollars and discriminates every day against hardworking American taxpayers. In its new Roadmap to Equality, WILL identifies these racially discriminatory programs, policies, and regulations, which are currently on the books at federal agencies. The Roadmap to Equality provides a one-stop resource to the Trump Administration, allowing them to easily target these programs, policies, and regulations, and then terminate, settle, or investigate them. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

New Federal Complaint Against John Hopkins School of Medicine:<\/span><\/b><\/a> Pursuant to the Affordable Care Act and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, WILL, on behalf of Do No Harm, filed a new federal complaint with HHS this week against John Hopkins University for its discriminatory practices against medical students. The University boasts of a top-ranking medical school in which third- and fourth-year medical students have opportunities to complete required \u201cclinical rotations\u201d to gain hands-on patient care experiences across various medical specialties. However, Johns Hopkins does not treat all students equally in providing these crucial training experiences and relies on taxpayer funds to impose race- and sex-based eligibility criteria across various clinical clerkships and scholarship programming\u2014including, for example, clinical experiences in the specialties of dermatology, orthopedics, pediatrics, plastic surgery, and general medicine. Because these programs derive from Johns Hopkins\u2019 broader mission to prioritize race and racial politics in an effort to \u201cincrease diverse representation,\u201d there can be little question that other programing at the University is similarly infected with racial discrimination, and WILL and Do No Harm asked the new HHS administration to open a formal investigation into the University\u2019s use of race in education and training.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

New Federal Complaint Against UW-Madison: <\/span><\/b><\/a>On behalf of Young America\u2019s Foundation (\u201cYAF\u201d) and Young Americans for Freedom at UW-Madison (\u201cYAF UW-Madison\u201d), WILL filed a Title VI complaint against the University of Wisconsin-Madison for offering, awarding and promoting at least 60 race-based scholarships. For most of these scholarships, UW-Madison indicates that race is an eligibility factor with various phrases such as \u201cURSOC must contain Y.\u201d The acronym URSOC means \u201cUnderrepresented Student of Color.\u201d Other scholarship criteria have more explicit statements such as \u201cEthnicity must contain BLACK\u201d or \u201cEthnicity must contain WHITE.\u201d Many others simply list the racial groups that are eligible. Our new Title VI complaint asks the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to open an investigation and direct UW-Madison to stop offering, awarding, and promoting scholarship programs that use race as a factor.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Quotes:<\/span><\/b> WILL Deputy Counsel, Dan Lennington, stated, \u201cThis year is\u00a0a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address race discrimination by the federal government. The Biden Administration supercharged divisive DEI and affirmative action in\u00a0federal agencies, wasting billions in tax dollars and impacting millions of Americans.\u00a0In November, the voters spoke loud and clear: this discrimination must end.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WILL Associate Counsel, Cara Tolliver, stated, \u201cAmerica\u2019s hospitals and medical training institutions face a reckoning. The healthcare system cannot function effectively when healthcare education opportunities and experiences are reserved for certain individuals based on race and factors other than merit. Healthcare organizations that continue to ignore long-established anti-discrimination laws may soon find the new Trump-Vance Administration taking a firm stance.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WILL Associate Counsel, Nathalie Burmeister, stated, \u201cUnder Title VI, federally funded\u00a0universities like UW-Madison cannot restrict scholarship awards and other financial aid to\u00a0students based on race, but that\u2019s exactly the current practice. In 2025, WILL plans to find, pursue, and eliminate these activities.\u201d <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pending Title VI Complaint\u2019s Soon to Be Reviewed by Trump Administration filed by WILL previously:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WILL\u2019s newest efforts include new complaints that will be filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (\u201cHHS\u201d) and the U.S. Department of Education against John Hopkins University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively. WILL\u2019s latest action comes on the heels of several other lawsuits, such as WILL\u2019s pending lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s $37 billion <\/span>affirmative action program<\/span><\/a> and the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s <\/span>DEI program<\/span><\/a> for graduate students. WILL has a long and successful track record of dismantling multi-billion-dollar <\/span>federal<\/span><\/a> DEI <\/span>programs<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n