Former White House adviser Stephen Miller announced a lawsuit against the Biden administration, alleging racial discrimination in its distribution of COVID-19 aid.
The ex-aide to former President Donald Trump said in an interview on Monday that his new legal group, the America First Legal Foundation, which he characterized as the “conservative response” to the American Civil Liberties Union, sued in Texas over President Joe Biden prioritizing minority farmers and ranchers for aid in the American Rescue Act.
“[In] the American Rescue Act, … they award farm aid for farmers who’ve been hurt by this pandemic based on skin color. That is fundamentally un-American … and when it comes to getting financial aid, it shouldn’t matter what race or ethnicity you are,” Miller said on Newsmax TV’s Spicer & Co. “You can’t make a more equal country, [and] you can’t make a more unified country if we split and divide based on race. That policy is illegal.”
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act, signed by Biden on March 11, allocated $5 billion to black farmers, a provision some, like Miller, argue amounts to racial discrimination.
“I would argue and my organization would argue that that violates federal nondiscrimination rules,” Miller added.