Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) shared his worry about military readiness in a TV interview Thursday.

Gaetz appeared on Fox News's Ingraham Angle to discuss the battle to eliminate the Pentagon's chief diversity officer. The Florida representative drafted two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, one to remove the chief diversity officer and another that would also cut all funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and enforce a review of DEI initiatives. While the former amendment passed, Reps. Don Bacon (R-NE) and Mike Turner (R-OH) ultimately voted against the later amendment, which prevented it from passing.

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"As I explained to Congressman Bacon and the committee, we always have standards in the military that don’t allow people to be racist or harmful to their fellow service members, and none of those standards would have changed," Gaetz said. "If the chief diversity officer is what we need to win wars, maybe we should send them all to the front lines in Ukraine like now. Get them to Taiwan. Of course, that's not the case. This dilutes our readiness."

Bacon referred to Gaetz's failed amendment as "unreasonable" in a statement to host Laura Ingraham.

According to Gaetz, diversity officers can earn as much as $183,000 annually. He told Ingraham he is committed to "following the money" to eliminate it all.

"Force-feeding wokeness to our service members DILUTES military readiness!" Gaetz subsequently tweeted Friday. "Our military should focus on winning an actual conflict rather than losing a misguided culture war."

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Gaetz would rather focus on the Chinese assets in Cuba and supports the use of military force in the country to eliminate them, saying as much during the same hearing in which his amendments were voted on.

Currently, Cyrus Salazar serves as director of the Department of Defense's Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.