1. United States
2. Colo.
3. Letter

I urge you to oppose S.382 / H.R.925, the so-called “Dismantle DEI Act.” This legislation is not about fairness. It is a sweeping attack on the tools used to identify, prevent, and remedy discrimination in federal agencies, education, contracting, healthcare, the military, and public programs. It would dismantle DEI offices, equity plans, trainings, reporting systems, environmental justice bodies, affinity groups, and programs designed to address long-standing discrimination against BIPOC communities, women, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and other marginalized constituents. The Constitution promises equal protection, due process, representative government, and the general welfare. Congress has a duty to protect constituents from discrimination, not to blind the federal government to it. Our country’s history includes slavery, Indigenous dispossession, segregation, exclusion of women from public and economic life, redlining, employment discrimination, unequal healthcare, unequal education, and ongoing systemic barriers. Pretending those systems no longer matter does not create equality. It preserves inequality. Civil rights enforcement cannot work if Congress bans the language, data, offices, and programs needed to understand discrimination. A government that refuses to measure inequity cannot honestly claim to be protecting equal rights. Please oppose S.382 / H.R.925 and any similar attempt to dismantle DEI, equity, civil rights, diversity, or anti-discrimination infrastructure. Congress should strengthen protections against discrimination, not punish efforts to confront it. Thank you.