Republicans Raise Alarm Over New State Department ‘Woke Czar’

Ranking member Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) speaks at a hearing with the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on Nov. 16, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Republican lawmakers are calling for an inquiry into a new State Department equity position they are calling a “woke czar.”

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are leading the charge against President Joe Biden’s appointment last month of Desirée Cormier Smith as the first “special representative” for the State Department’s “Equity Action Plan.”