SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON EXECUTIVE AGENCIES ACT-
ING 
IN 
CONTRAVENTION 
OF 
EXECUTIVE 
ORDER 13950. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) On September 22, 2020, President Trump 
issued Executive Order (EO) 13950 ‘‘Combating 
Race and Sex Stereotyping’’. 
(2) EO 13950 was designed ‘‘to promote econ-
omy and efficiency in Federal contracting, to pro-
mote unity in the Federal workforce, and to combat 
offensive and anti-American race and sex stereo-
typing and scapegoating’’. 
(3) Specifically EO 13950, among other things, 
prohibited Federal agencies from teaching, advo-
cating, acting upon, or promoting in any training to 
agency employees certain divisive concepts, such as 
those that hold ‘‘(1) one race or sex is inherently su-
perior to another race or sex; (2) the United States 
is fundamentally racist or sexist; (3) an individual, 
by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently rac-
ist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or un-
consciously; (4) an individual should be discrimi-
nated against or receive adverse treatment solely or 
partly because of his or her race or sex; (5) members 
of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to 
treat others without respect to race or sex; (6) an 
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individual’s moral character is necessarily deter-
mined by his or her race or sex; (7) an individual, 
by virtue of his or her race or sex, bears responsi-
bility for actions committed in the past by other 
members of the same race or sex; (8) any individual 
should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other 
form of psychological distress on account of his or 
her race or sex; or (9) meritocracy or traits such as 
a hard work ethic are racist or sexist, or were cre-
ated by a particular race to oppress another race’’. 
(4) EO 13950 further required that diversity 
and inclusion efforts of Federal agencies must ‘‘first 
and foremost, encourage agency employees not to 
judge each other by their color, race, ethnicity, sex, 
or any other characteristic protected by Federal 
law’’. 
(5) EO 13950 was issued soon after Office of 
Management and Budget Director Russell Vought 
issued a September 4, 2020, memorandum wherein 
he explained— 
(A) millions of taxpayer dollars have been 
spent on training Federal Government workers 
to ‘‘believe divisive, anti-American propaganda’’; 
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(B) training sessions that have taught 
‘‘virtually all White people contribute [or ben-
efit from] to racism’’; and 
(C) training sessions have claimed that 
‘‘there is racism embedded in the belief that 
America is the land of opportunity or the belief 
that the most qualified person should receive a 
job’’. 
(6) In the September 4, 2020, memorandum, 
Director 
Vought 
further 
explained 
that 
such 
trainings, ‘‘not only run counter to the fundamental 
beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its in-
ception, but they also engender division and resent-
ment within the Federal workforce’’. 
(7) EO 13950 and the September 4, 2020, 
memorandum stood as a direct rebuke of so-called 
‘‘Critical Race Theory’’. 
(8) Critical Race Theory, according to Heritage 
Foundation visiting fellow Chris Rufo, is ‘‘the idea 
that the United States is a fundamentally racist 
country and that all of our institutions including the 
law, culture, business, the economy are all designed 
to maintain white supremacy’’. 
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(9) Critical Race Theory is, at its core, un- 
American, discriminatory, and based on Marxist ide-
ology. 
(10) Critical Race Theory relies on a Marxist 
analytical framework, viewing society in terms of op-
pressed and oppressor, and instills a defeatist men-
tality in those it casts as the oppressed. 
(11) Critical Race Theory’s objective is the de-
struction and replacement of Western Enlighten-
ment Liberalism with a Marxist influenced govern-
ment. 
(12) Critical Race Theory intentionally seeks to 
undermine capitalism and western values, such as 
property rights, free speech, and the very concept of 
Lockean natural rights. 
(13) At the Department of Homeland Security, 
Rufo explained, trainers ‘‘insisted that statements 
such as ‘America is the land of opportunity’, ‘Every-
body can succeed in this society, if they work hard 
enough’, and ‘I believe the most qualified person 
should get the job’ are racist and harmful’’. 
(14) At a training session at the National Cred-
it Union Administration, Howard Ross taught that 
‘‘It is irrefutable that [America society] is a system 
based on racism’’ and ‘‘good and decent [white] peo-
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ple . . . support the status quo [of] a system of sys-
tematized racism’’. 
(15) According to Rufo, employees of the De-
partment of the Treasury and Federal financial 
agencies attended a series of events at which diver-
sity trainer Howard Ross taught employees that all 
White Americans are complicit in White supremacy 
‘‘by automatic response to the ways were taught 
Whiteness includes white privilege and white su-
premacy’’. 
(16) Martin Luther King Jr., in his ‘‘I have a 
dream speech’’ said, ‘‘I look to a day when people 
will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by 
the content of their character’’. 
(17) By teaching that certain individuals, by 
virtue of inherent characteristics, are inherently 
flawed, Critical Race Theory contradicts the basic 
principle upon which our Nation was founded that 
all men and women are created equal. 
(18) Critical Race Theory’s teachings stand in 
contrast to the overarching goal of the Civil Rights 
Act of 1964 to prevent discrimination on the basis 
of race, color, or national origin in the United 
States. 
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