{"id":592109,"date":"2026-04-27T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=592109"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:04:17","slug":"exclusive-sen-mike-lees-anti-dei-bill-would-block-awarding-federal-contracts-on-basis-of-race-or-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=592109","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Sen. Mike Lee&#8217;s Anti-DEI Bill Would Block Awarding Federal Contracts on Basis of Race or Sex\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to fight against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) discrimination by prohibiting federal agencies from awarding contracts on the basis of race or sex has been introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who stated that his goal is to &#8220;restore merit-based partnerships&#8221; in government contracting.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/27\/exclusive-sen-mike-lees-anti-dei-bill-would-block-awarding-federal-contracts-on-basis-of-race-or-sex\/\">Exclusive: Sen. Mike Lee\u2019s Anti-DEI Bill Would Block Awarding Federal Contracts on Basis of Race or Sex\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">Breitbart<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to fight against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) discrimination by prohibiting federal agencies from awarding contracts on the basis of race or sex has been introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who stated that his goal is to &#8220;restore merit-based partnerships&#8221; in government contracting. The post Exclusive: Sen. Mike Lee\u2019s Anti-DEI Bill Would&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=592109\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exclusive: Sen. Mike Lee&#8217;s Anti-DEI Bill Would Block Awarding Federal Contracts on Basis of Race or Sex\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}