Was a call to ‘ban’ cabinet appointments for white people related to the supposed identity of the Colorado shooting suspect?

There is no publicly available evidence the 21-year-old man identified as the suspect in the Boulder, Colorado, King Sooper shooting is an "Islamic extremist," and some evidence he was non-religious.

As for the contemporaneous battle over the make-up of President Joe Biden's administration, Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Mazie Hirono did not call for an outright ban on white people in the Cabinet, but stalled approval of Biden picks until Asian American Pacific Islander communities were represented. An article on social media tried without basis to link their political stance to the Colorado shooting response.

The Colorado shooting suspect, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, faces 10 counts of murder in the shooting on March 22, 2021, at a grocery store in Boulder. The suspect's brother told CNN that Alissa may have been suffering from mental illness and was not very political or particularly religious.