Stephen Miller’s America First Legal Foundation has joined the fight to restore merit-based hiring in the federal government, continuing on President Donald Trump’s vow to rid the U.S. of the former President Jimmy Carter’s diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda.

The AFL is reportedly arguing that the government has been being forced for the past four decades to pass over more qualified candidates in order to hire on race and gender.

“America is missing out on top talent because of an illegal, 44-year-old consent decree,” AFL senior counsel Nick Barry told Fox News. “We must move back to merit-based evaluations.

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