Blackburn: Tenn. Universities of Concealing DEI Programs

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on Thursday claimed that university employees in Tennessee are “concealing woke DEI programs” that President Donald Trump prohibited in an executive order.

In letters sent to three universities in Tennessee, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Vanderbilt, and Belmont University, Blackburn claimed that employees were secretly “concealing woke DEI programs by renaming them while continuing to push the harmful content.”

She wrote in a letter to UTK that “Leaked footage shows UTK employees discussing how the University is concealing woke DEI programs by renaming them while continuing to push the harmful content.”

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