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…
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