Last week, BFF Fellow Simon Hankinson appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Intelligence to take part in the hearing, "Deficient, Enfeebled, and Ineffective: The Consequences of the Biden Administration’s Far-Left Priorities on U.S. Foreign Policy."  In rejecting DEIA, Hankinson stressed the need for meritocracy, fairness, and common-sense as the personnel standard for the State Department.