Trump administration orders furloughed DEI employees donald trump news
The US President is making aggressive efforts against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
The administration of United States President Donald Trump has directed that all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employees be placed on paid leave and eventually fired, as the Republican leader seeks to address systemic racism. Aim for the initiative to be taken.
A memo from the Office of Personnel Management, first reported by CBS News, told agencies to place DEI Office employees on paid leave until Wednesday at 5 p.m. (22:00 GMT) and all public DEI-focused employees by the same deadline. Instructed to remove the webpages.
Agencies must cancel any DEI-related training and terminate any related contracts, and federal employees are being asked to report to the office if they suspect that any DEI-related program has been renamed. To obscure its purpose has to be done within 10 days – or suffer “adverse consequences”. ,
As of Thursday, federal agencies have been directed to compile a list of federal DEI offices and employees by Election Day in November. They are also expected to develop a plan to carry out “reduction in force actions” against those federal employees by next Friday.
The moves follow an executive order that Trump signed on his first day in office this week, ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal government’s DEI programs, ranging from anti-bias training to minority This can include everything from financing to farmers and homeowners.
Trump has called the programs “discriminatory” and has pushed to reinstate what he describes as strictly “merit-based” hiring.
But civil rights advocates have argued that DEI programs are necessary to address long-standing inequities and structural racism.
Basil Smikle Jr., a political strategist and policy consultant, said he was troubled by the Trump administration’s claim that diversity programs were “undermining the importance of individual ability, merit, hard work and determination” because it suggests that women And there is a lack of ability among people of color. Or qualification.
“This is a clear effort to hinder, if not diminish, the political and economic power of people of color and women,” Smickle said.
“What it does is it opens the door for more brotherhood,” he said.
Trump’s anti-DEI campaign picks up where his first administration left off.
One of Trump’s final acts during his first term in office in 2017–2021 was an executive order banning federal agency contractors and recipients of federal funding from conducting anti-bias training that addresses concepts such as systemic racism. Used to do.
His successor, Democrat and former US President Joe Biden, immediately rescinded that order on his first day in office and issued a pair of executive orders outlining a plan to promote DEI throughout the federal government – now rescinded. Has been done.
While many changes may take months or even years to implement, Trump’s new anti-DEI agenda is more aggressive than his first and comes amid a far more favorable sector in the corporate world.
Major companies from Walmart to Facebook have already rolled back or eliminated some of their diversity practices in response to Trump’s election and the conservative-backed lawsuits against him.
