[SilverElfin]

I agree there are serious concerns and drawbacks with giving appointees discretion. But the reason they did this is likely that agencies otherwise have a way of basically doing their own thing, and not complying with language. One example that isn’t about DEI. is Fauci working around restrictions on gain of function research, following the ban Obama put into place. You can have language around DEI or gender identity (or some issue on the other side) but people can find ways around it.