The U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps appear on a list of sponsors for a conference of the American School Counselor Association, which supports diversity, equity, and inclusion—an activist ideology that President Donald Trump directed the federal government to eliminate.

A Department of War source with knowledge of DOW Community Engagement Planning noted that the ASCA’s support for DEI and its reliance on materials from the Southern Poverty Law Center do not align with the administration’s values.

“As we continue to close out contracts and former partnerships at the Department of War that do not serve the best interests of the Department and the American people, there are still instances in which some slip through the cracks,” the source told The Daily Signal Monday. “While an initial review from the services showed the conference mostly based on professional-development or literacy themes, and not prohibited by Executive Order 14173, the ASCA’s promotion of the SPLC’s ‘Social Justice Standards’ and DEI clearly does not align with the values of the DOW or this administration.”

“Our participation in any sponsorships is reviewed for compliance with federal law, including Executive Order 14173 (‘Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity’),” a War Department spokesperson told The Daily Signal. “The Department does not underwrite third-party curriculum and does not endorse every session, speaker, or resource presented at independent conferences.”

Alvin Lui, president of the nonprofit organization Courage Is a Habit, first flagged the relationship with ASCA.

“We are so grateful for the incredible work Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is doing in the military. He is working hard to expel DEI from the Department of War. But at the same time, this same department is still sponsoring ASCA, whose entire mission is influencing children via the guise of mental health to want the same woke ideology Secretary Hegseth is looking to eradicate,” Lui told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday.

Lui warned that ASCA “slips through the cracks and undermines both the parents’ and children’s constitutional rights as well as President Trump’s........

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