Use federal contracts against corporate diversity policies
What the document says“using government contracts to push back against woke policies in corporate America.”
The chapter says the Office of Federal Procurement Policy should be engaged early and often in OMB's effort to drive policy, including by obtaining transparency about who receives federal contracts and grants and by using government contracts to push back against what it calls woke policies in corporate America. The chapter does not define the term.
What the document actually says“using government contracts to push back against woke policies in corporate America.”
Use the contracts the government hands out. Use them to push back on woke policies in big firms.
The government buys a lot from private firms. It can set terms for who it buys from. The book says to use that power. It wants to push back on what it calls woke company policies. The book does not say what counts as woke.
Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance Rules
2026-01-27 · 91 FR 3345
The State Department rule adds an award term, Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance, to grants, cooperative agreements and voluntary contributions, which is the route the passage describes: attaching conditions to federal awards in order to press recipients on diversity policy. The fit breaks down on nearly every particular. The rule reaches foreign assistance recipients, which it lists as foreign and United States nongovernmental organizations, international organizations, foreign governments and parastatals, rather than corporate America. It applies to grants and cooperative agreements rather than to procurement contracts. And it is issued by the State Department under the Foreign Assistance Act rather than through the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and the governmentwide contracting rules the passage names.
The rule adds a term on equity ideology to foreign aid grants. Adding terms to federal awards is the route the passage names. But it reaches aid groups abroad, not firms at home. It covers grants, not buying contracts, and it came from the State Department.