Biden’s ‘Equity’ Insanity

Forget defending the nation, mailing Social Security checks or any of the federal government’s other jobs. Under President Biden’s explicit orders, the executive branch is increasingly pushing racial “equity.”

This outrageous exercise in reverse discrimination has absolutely no place in government.

As The Post’s Caitlin Doornbos reported, more than 90 federal agencies submitted “equity action plans” last year, obeying Biden’s order (just hours after he took office) to create “agency equity teams” and use government power to advance “racial equity and support for underserved communities.”

Now, under a new order he issued last month, all federal agencies must file such reports and show how they’re meeting their “equity” missions.

The term “equity” here has nothing to do with treating people fairly; just the opposite. It means preferring (some) minorities when it comes to, for example, federal jobs and grants.

That flies smack in the face of the nation’s bedrock principles, not to mention laws like the Civil Rights Act, which bars the use of race in hiring.

It’s government-funded racism. Already, hundreds of programs focus explicitly on race, prioritizing minorities for government grants, jobs, contracts and outreach. Some involve jaw-dropping sums. The American Rescue Plan, for one, created a $3.8 billion debt-relief program that would pay farmers and ranchers of color up to 120% of their outstanding loans, regardless of financial need.

The courts stopped that overtly racist program, but it was quickly replaced by a similar $3.1 billion initiative tucked into the Inflation Reduction Act for “economically distressed” farmers (who are more likely to be minorities).

Many agencies have created whole new departments and six-figure, senior-level posts to oversee equity efforts. Meaning an ever-larger part of the vast federal bureaucracy is now devoted to nothing but ensuring the rest of it favors minorities.

Americans of every political stripe ought to be livid at this patent discrimination and abuse of public resources. Favoring some at the expense of others is wasteful, unfair and un-American and only sows resentment and division.