- Biden's HHS allegedly targeted religious health care providers over symbolic issues like sanctuary candles.
- FEMA workers were reportedly instructed to skip Trump-supporting homes during Hurricane Milton relief in Christian-majority areas.
- The EEOC found cause in less than 3% of religious accommodation requests related to COVID-19 vaccines.
President Donald Trump commissioned a report to investigate anti-Christian bias in the federal government, and the findings showed instances of alleged religious discrimination across federal agencies during the Biden administration, including the Department of Homeland Security, EEOC and the Department of Education.
The report, first obtained by Fox News, was assembled by a task force that was made up mainly of Trump Cabinet members, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Education Secretary Linda McMahon, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel and others.
The group convened April 22, hosted by Attorney General Pam Bondi, and watched a video highlighting Paul Vaughn, who was arrested at his home after participating in a pro-life demonstration.
Anti-Christian bias at the HHS
In 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services threatened to revoke St. Francis Health System’s government funding over a “lit sanctuary candle in the chapel of its main facility.”
The agency claimed it violated patient safety policy, despite decadeslong approval from the local government and fire marshal.
Earlier, in 2019, the HHS Office for Civil Rights filed a lawsuit to hold UVMCC accountable for “forcing staff to participate in abortions against their consciences.” When President Joe Biden entered office, HHS dropped the lawsuit.
Hurricane Milton and anti-Christian bias at the DHS
The report accuses one of the DHS’ agencies, FEMA, of anti-Christian bias, referencing an agency worker telling staff to skip over homes with Trump campaign signs, after Hurricane Milton hit the coast of Florida in 2024.
“Between 70% to 81% of the people from the impacted states of Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia are Christian,” the report says.
With the demographic in mind, the report continues, “the goal was to discriminate or select who is assisted during relief efforts.”
On a podcast after being fired, Marn’i Washington said she was just following the widespread policy of avoiding “politically hostile” homes.
“FEMA preaches avoidance first, and then deescalation. This is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance,” she said.
The EEOC, COVID-19 and gender ideology
The report says the Biden administration used the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as leverage to favor non-Christian workers.
As examples, it cited changes to policy like the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which changed to include abortion in 2024, and the Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace, which “adopted radical gender ideology at the expense of women’s rights and both religious employers’ and employees’ rights.”
The EEOC also found that thousands of religious accommodation requests to not get the COVID-19 vaccine were “deprioritized” and “mishandled.”
Since Biden took office in 2021, the EEOC received about 15,500 COVID-19-related discrimination charges, but only found cause in 397 cases, and of those cases, only filed four lawsuits against private employers.
Anti-Christian bias at the Department of Education
The report referenced fines placed on religious universities, including Liberty University and Grand Canyon University, during the Biden administration.
Liberty’s fine was pressed after the university failed to report campus crime, The Hill reported, and Grand Canyon’s was over the university allegedly misleading current and former students about the costs of its doctoral programs.