The Left wants to fundamentally change our nation. And they do a lot of it behind closed doors.
Now Democrats are in the hot seat after this radical act was exposed on the House floor.
Republican Congressman Brian Mast sharply interrogated a State Department official during a congressional hearing, exposing what many see as the absurd and wasteful priorities of the Biden administration’s foreign aid programs.
These initiatives, focused on promoting DEI agendas abroad, including bizarre efforts to “qu-er” maps, divert taxpayer dollars from real national security threats like Iran, highlighting how Democrats have squandered resources on fringe ideological pursuits instead of safeguarding American interests.
Mast Probes Baffling “qu-ering the Map” Initiative
In a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing titled “Advancing National Security Through Public Diplomacy,” Mast, the committee chair from Florida, zeroed in on peculiar grants issued under Biden’s watch. He directly challenged Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary for public diplomacy, on one especially odd program.
Mast asked, “Can you tell me what is qu-ering the map?” Rogers replied, “So I think we were trying to make the maps more g*y,” alluding to the administration’s push for such endeavors. Pressing further, Mast questioned, “Literally? How do you make a map more g*y? Or g*y at all?”
This exchange underscored the convoluted and seemingly pointless nature of these Democrat-backed projects, which critics argue distract from urgent global challenges.
Official’s Flustered Defense and Admission of Ignorance
Rogers struggled to provide a coherent explanation, admitting her lack of insight into the specifics while attempting to justify the effort through academic jargon.
She conceded, “I don’t know,” before rambling on: “Since the age of cartography, we’ve had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren’t g*y enough. I also took critical theory in college, and I think sometimes people use ‘qu-er’ as a verb. I do understand that the maps we were trying to make g*y were, I think, of Czechia and Slovakia. So maybe those countries asked for it. I doubt it, but I don’t know.”
Her response only amplified perceptions of the Biden team’s detachment from reality, as such vague and esoteric rationales fail to convince skeptics that these expenditures serve any meaningful purpose beyond advancing a progressive agenda at the expense of practical diplomacy.
Criticism of Wasteful DEI Grants and Demand for Accountability
Mast didn’t stop there, lambasting the grants as “embarrassing” and pointing to a slew of other questionable uses of U.S. funds, such as programs for “non-binary and transfranophones, linguistic attitudes and ideologies toward inclusive French in Montreal, Canada.” He also cited a DEI flash mob in Kyrgyzstan, a diversity roadshow in India, and similar inclusion efforts in Luxembourg, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, and Malaysia, plus training for trans and inters*x leaders in India.
Emphasizing the need to prioritize threats like Iran’s aggression over these frivolities, Mast declared, “We would absolutely love to know the individuals specifically who were busy writing these grants, because they have no business receiving another paycheck from the people of the United States of America.”
This grilling reflects growing frustration with how Democratic policies have funneled money into niche cultural experiments rather than bolstering America’s strategic edge on the world stage.
