Donald Trump has ordered that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave “immediately” and eventually laid off as the new President’s war on woke goes nuclear. The Telegraph has more.
The move follows an executive order the President signed on his first day back in the White House which revoked Lyndon Johnson’s [sic] protection of workers against discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
Mr Trump’s order also encourages the private sector to “end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences”.
Heralding a “new golden age” for the US, he has sought to quickly dismantle many Biden-era policies with a flurry of executive orders on immigration, gender and climate.
The President has vowed to fire more than a thousand of his successor’s appointees, including Adml Linda Fagan, whom Joe Biden, the former President, appointed to lead the US Coast Guard in 2022.
Mr Trump sacked Adml Fagan on Tuesday for excessive focus on diversity policies.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directed agencies to place DEI office staffers on paid leave, take down all public DEI-focused webpages and cancel any DEI-related training by 5pm EST on Wednesday (10pm GMT).
The memo also encouraged employees at federal agencies to inform on those attempting to disguise DEI programmes.
Federal department and agency bosses are required to ask “employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these [DEI] programmes by using coded or imprecise language”.
The memo, issued on Tuesday, included a template email for bosses to send to employees, which asks them to report to OPM if they are “aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5th 2024 (Election Day) to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies”.
The memo added that DEI programmes “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars and resulted in shameful discrimination”.
Federal Government departments had started to take down public webpages associated with diversity, equity and inclusion on Wednesday, in line with the OPM memo and ahead of the 5pm deadline.
The US Treasury, Department for Labour, Agency for International Development and the General Services Administration appeared to have heeded the order by dismantling their DEI landing pages.
Trump providing lots of ideas here for the U.K.’s next Right-wing administration…
Worth reading in full.
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Dreams and wishes will result in our downfall!
Boris. You have joined GB News. Can you now admit since you are no longer in government and having to pander to the UN and WEF that GREEN policies and energy are in the words of David Cameron ——-CRAP.
Toby doing his best Rev JC Flannel impression on the baby-butcher fans flexing their muscles in our midst – ‘let’s try and educate them.’
Toby, that idea hasn’t worked out well for the last 1500 years. They just butcher more babies to horrify and terrorise everyone else into conversion or submission.
You can leave this problem to be confronted by your children or we can act now while we can. The West isn’t a suicide pact and illiberal measures are essential against our would-be conquerors.
Toby says that our Muslim citizens probably support British values. No they are Muslims first and british a very far second. Islam is a powerful ideology like communism. Communists always put the party first and country nowhere. Many Muslims want Britain to be taken by them. We will have to fight for our ancestral inheritance
Totally agree – Toby, yet again, for some strange reason, misdiagnoses the key problem, which is that Muslims detest our way of life at a fundamental, religious level, which means that integration into our society is simply not achievable. The status and role of women (and men) in society, the way women dress, tolerance of and respect for other religions and gay rights are some examples. Yet Toby argues that it is simply an issue of anti-semitism and / or wokeist anti-colonialism, neither of which are unique to Muslims.
Immigrants from other countries and cultures – Europeans, Hindu Indians, non-Muslims of African and Caribbean descent, Chinese, etc – do not in my opinion seem to have a fundamental problem with British or English values and culture.
My good opinion of Nick Dixon is enhanced by his appreciation of the Larry Sanders Show, which is up there with Fawlty Towers tho I skip the opening monologue.