The Trump administration orders mass layoffs of federal DEI staff, dismantling variety applications and labeling them divisive and wasteful.
President Donald Trump’s administration is following by on his promise to dismantle DEI applications, ordering all federal variety, fairness and inclusion workers to be positioned on go away no later than 5:00 P.M. Wednesday (January 22).
A memorandum despatched Tuesday (January 21) by the Workplace of Personnel Administration additionally orders all public DEI-focused web sites be taken down by the identical deadline. The memo follows Trump’s government order aimed toward eliminating “radical” DEI applications throughout federal companies.
Staff are to be positioned on paid administrative go away however will ultimately be laid off.
The memo claims these applications “divided People by race,” wasted taxpayer {dollars}, and precipitated “shameful discrimination.”
Moreover, the Trump administration requested federal staff report all efforts to disguise DEI applications utilizing coded language since November 5, 2024, or face “antagonistic penalties.”
This sweeping directive marks a major shift in federal workforce insurance policies beneath Trump’s administration.
Trump’s directives reversed the Biden administration’s government orders to advertise variety within the federal workforce and applications. Biden’s purpose was to advance fairness “for all, together with folks of colour and others who’ve been traditionally underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.”
Federal companies had been instructed to assessment applications to handle structural limitations to entry. Nevertheless, Trump labeled these variety initiatives as “unlawful and immoral discrimination.”
Throughout his inauguration speech, Trump vowed to “finish the federal government coverage of making an attempt to socially engineer race and gender into each facet of private and non-private life. We’ll forge a society that’s colorblind and benefit based mostly.”
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