Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took goal at Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth over the weekend, delivering a blistering critique of the Trump appointee’s newest stance on range, fairness and inclusion.
He additionally provided a fiery new tackle the DEI acronym.
In a video shared on X (previously Twitter), Jeffries slammed Hegseth and different Trump officers who’re anti-DEI as “dumb effing people.”
Jeffries’ feedback got here as he denounced the reported removal of books from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis — together with works on slavery, the civil rights motion and the Holocaust.
“The outrageous Naval Academy e book ban targets Maya Angelou and the Holocaust, however excludes Adolf Hitler,” Jeffries wrote alongside the video. “This should be reversed instantly.”
Hegseth, who has led efforts to get rid of DEI programming within the navy, responded on Fox News throughout an look on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo.
“That’s how far they’ve fallen. It’s astonishing, not shocking,” Hegseth mentioned, dismissing Jeffries’ criticism. “In fact, they don’t like the truth that we’re ripping DEI out of the navy and making it colorblind and merit-based.”
