Rep. Gill Accuses Consulting Firm of Illegal DEI Practices, Questionable Research
Gill reminded the company that an April 2026 report said those DEI initiatives “cost the U.S. economy roughly $94 billion in 2023 alone.”
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) has accused McKinsey & Company of illegal DEI practices, according to Fox News.
Gill chairs the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses.
The congressman mentioned four McKinsey reports in his letter to Robert Sternfels, the company’s global managing partner: Why Diversity Matters (2015), Delivering Through Diversity (2018), Diversity Wins (2020), and Diversity Matters Even More (2023).
These “highly influential” reports claim that “increased diversity in companies causes a greater likelihood of improved financial performance.”
From Fox News:
“These McKinsey reports have been highly influential, being cited by publicly traded companies, asset managers, proxy advisory firms, and banking institutions, among others, as cause for embedding illegal racial and sex-based targets into hiring, promotion, executive compensation, and asset manager proxy voting policies,” Gill wrote in a letter sent Monday.
“With the support of the previous administration, progressive activists cited McKinsey’s reports to push companies, governments, and stock exchanges to implement rules which forced or incentivized illegal corporate racial or gender-based hiring and disclosure policies.”
BlackRock cited McKinsey’s reports to justify its 30% board diversity target. Even the Nasdaq stock exchange used the reports to receive approval for its Diversity Rule and the Disclosure Rule.
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS)
Investment Office named two McKinsey reports when explaining the votes “against three board members of P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. who had failed to satisfy its board diversity demands.”
Gill also reminded the company that an April 2026 report said those DEI initiatives “cost the U.S. economy roughly $94 billion in 2023 alone.”
It doesn’t help that McKinsey has not released to the public “its underlying datasets used to produce its DEI reports.”
Gill noted that researchers could not recreate McKinsey’s results, leading them to conclude that the company “likely swapped the cause and effect of its DEI conclusions.”
“Although in 2024 McKinsey stated that it ‘stands by its findings,’ other researchers have found zero statistical correlation between a company’s gender and racial diversity and its financial performance,” wrote Gill.
I wonder if Gill’s takedown of American Bar Association (ABA) President Michelle Behnke piqued his interest in McKinsey because she “defended DEI’s importance within the ABA by alluding to the McKinsey DEI reports.”
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Comments
Gill gets it. He read his Alinsky. Gets straight to the heart of it without fluff. Need more young blood to confront the TDS Performance Company.
He gets it, for certain. He also doesn’t tolerate filibusters and bafflegab much.
As usual, I await actual results.
“other researchers have found zero statistical correlation between a company’s gender and racial diversity and its financial performance”
Frankly, that’s better news than I expected, which would have been a significant negative correlation,
That one statement made me wonder. There IS negative performance in any vaguely free market environment. OTOH, if you look only at government tied businesses (contractors, lobbyists, etc.) you may well see positive performance correlation. Unless you have enough DEI, you don’t get the business.
I want to see more of this!
Very well done
Let’s go, Brandon!
Good catch
Just the bear facts fur shure.
How hilarious requiring a consulting company to eat its own dog food, justify its own report. The standard consulting modus operandi is move on to the next hot trend, which is AI currently.
I’m surprised weasel words were not included in the recommendation. But, the gravy train of dei consulting was too enticing and protected by the racism and cancellation culture. And probably the culture was one that DEI was a key part of their elite Ivy League worldview that nobody dared question.
24 years ago the company I worked for brought in McKinsey. We were a medical device company. I had to drag the 28 year old MBA to Doctor offices and surgical centers. She was observing how to maximize time with the Doctors. She couldn’t grasp the fact that the personal relationship was more important than the scientific papers. Her MBA attributes just couldn’t compute the reality of how Doctors operate.
Why worry about trivial things like air crashes, rampant crime, and activist judges, when sexual depravity, incompetent leaders, communist teachers, and racism embracement can help the communist destruction of our Constitutional Republic?
Gill does good work. Could use more like him in Congress.
I love his closing line: “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”!
Oh please please please PLEASE kick the ever loving s*** out of that grift and joke of a “consulting” company.
question remains:
which surgeon would you prefer do the belly operation on you:
a person who went through college, medical school, internship, and residency based upon their physical characteristics or one who maintained top grades and evaluations all the way through?