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Kelly Hancock: “We got rid of dei. No sense talking about it in rhetoric…”

Featuring: Kelly Hancock, Republican | State Senator, Texas, District 9

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Published February 19, 2026 | Video Starts at 06:53

It might as well be spelled D E I. It was a race based and gender based program that gave preferential treatment simply based on race, rather than treating all of you equally. We got rid of dei. No sense talking about it in rhetoric. It's gone. And when we got rid of it, we took it out of the rules. What happened there? Every agency, that's what we do. I am your chief financial officer. (06:53–06:59)

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Asserts that DEI was removed from the comptroller's office.

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