States Challenge USDA’s Anti-DEI Funding Conditions
On March 23, 2026, a coalition of twenty U.S. states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over sweeping new USDA funding conditions that forbid vaguely defined antidiscrimination “policies,” prohibit the use of funds to “promote gender ideology,” and threaten False Claims Act liability for recipient noncompliance.