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Wisconsin Republicans banned race-based hiring in local government. It’s already been illegal for over 50 years.

One of the measures put forth by Republicans sliced $32 million from the University of Wisconsin System budget in an attempt to eliminate nearly 200 DEI jobs on UW campuses.

Vos relabeled the DEI acronym “division, exclusion and indoctrination” and called diversity programming at Wisconsin’s public universities the “single most important issue” facing humanity last month at a Republican state party convention in La Crosse.