MORGAN MURPHY: The Left Have Stuck Their Claws Into Military — But House GOP Is Fighting Back

Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee just gave America a preview of what governance might look like under a second Trump administration.

On May 22, the committee took a hedge trimmer to the thicket of new leftist rules put in place by Biden’s Pentagon commissars. First in the wood chipper: diversity, equity and inclusion training, along with climate activism and promotions based on anything but merit.

You would be forgiven for thinking America’s left isn’t much interested in the Department of Defense. Don’t be fooled. The former War Department remains the final and biggest prize in our federal government.

Washington, D.C., is a town full of Democrats, where neighbors on Capitol Hill compete over how many Ukraine flags, “Ceasefire NOW!” signs and coexist stickers can be crammed into one yard. The city voted for Biden in 2020 by 92.15 percent, making the federal workforce in Washington as ideologically diverse as NPR’s newsroom.

Memos were written on IBM Selectrics when the left seized the departments of State, Energy, Education and Transportation. Republicans finally started to wake up to this permanent liberal takeover of the government in 2013, when it was revealed that the IRS deliberately targeted conservatives. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 showed just how far some staffers at formerly trusted institutions such as the FBI might go to stop conservatives. Flash forward to 2024: the FBI has labeled red-hat MAGA enthusiasts as extremists and its oversight organization, the U.S. Department of Justice, has shredded due process in the pursuit of the leading Republican candidate for president.

Until recently, many believed the last safe haven for conservatives in Washington was the Department of Defense, a lonely outpost in a sea of blue hair, pronouns and face masks.

With an annual funding tipping $850 billion and 2 million members, the Department of Defense remains the largest discretionary line item in the federal budget. Unfortunately, all that money made it target number one for the Biden team.

When acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and his deputy, Kash Patel, walked out of the Pentagon’s river entrance on January 20th, 2021, the Biden administration walked in with a dream sheet brimming with liberal priorities. In the first week, the services opened to transgender members. In times past, one could not join the Army with flat feet or fly a jet with less than 20/20 vision, but at Biden’s DoD, those in need of $30,000 “gender affirming surgery” are good to go.