Reagan Reese
Daily Caller News Foundation
State Republicans will cut the University of Wisconsin’s budget by $32 million, the estimated total the institution was expected to spend on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, according to The Associated Press.
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers announced Thursday that they will be cutting the university’s budget for DEI initiatives from the state’s 2023-25 budget, according to the AP. The university can earn the funding back if they show the lawmakers they are focusing on workforce development programs over DEI initiatives.
“For people on the left, DEI has become their new religion,” Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told the AP ahead of the decision. “They no longer go to church on Sunday, but boy, are they trying to make sure everybody is evangelized on campus, that’s there only one acceptable viewpoint. That’s not what I think taxpayers should be funding.”
The state lawmakers delayed the vote earlier in June after Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers threatened to veto the entire state budget if the $32 million for DEI programs was slashed, the AP reported. University of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman warned that cutting the university’s budget in any capacity could cause tuition to rise or cause some of its campuses to shut down.
In June, Rothman hired a new chief diversity officer who is making $225,000 per year, the AP reported. DEI employees of the university make a total of $15.6 million annually.
Throughout the country, lawmakers are moving to axe university’s DEI programs. Since March, 26 pieces of legislation targeting mandatory DEI training or DEI-centered offices have been filed in the 15 states. In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law prohibiting DEI offices and initiatives at higher education institutions.
WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews
“They need to refocus their priorities on being partners on developing our workforce and the future of the state and we’re hopeful that they’re going to be ready to do that as we move forward,” Republican state Rep. Mark Born told the AP.
This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].
IMPORTANT NOTE: It’s hard to believe it’s really happening, but it is. Male athletes pretend to be females, dominate their sports, and are thereby rapidly destroying women’s competitive sports worldwide. Convicted male criminals suddenly claim to be transgender so they can be confined in a women’s prison and sexually abuse the female inmates there. Men claiming to be female likewise invade women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, schools, dormitories, sororities, shelters, spas and social organizations – and in the process steal women’s scholarships, advancement, honors and myriad other opportunities.
Meanwhile, transgender groomers and recruiters in schools and on social media platforms like TikTok are continually feeding and expanding the current “mass hysteria” craze that has already led countless teen girls to take testosterone and undergo double mastectomies in a pathetic effort to become boys. No wonder the CDC reports 3 in 5 teen girls say they feel “persistently sad or hopeless” and almost 1 in 3 say they have seriously considered committing suicide.
All of this on top of the radical left’s renewed obsession with killing women’s unborn babies via abortion.
The “woke” left’s maniacal attack on women and girls, virtually unreported by the rest of the media, is the entire focus of the sensational June issue of WND’s critically acclaimed WHISTLEBLOWER magazine, titled “THE LEFT’S TOTAL WAR ON WOMEN.” WHISTLEBLOWER is available in both the popular print edition and a state-of-the-art digital version, either single issues or discounted annual subscriptions.
SUPPORT TRUTHFUL JOURNALISM. MAKE A DONATION TO THE NONPROFIT WND NEWS CENTER. THANK YOU!
