Federal diversity, equity, and inclusion employees are set to be placed on paid administrative leave by the end of Wednesday afternoon as part of President Donald Trump’s executive order to put a stop to DEI programs in government agencies. According to a Tuesday memorandum from the US Office of Personnel Management, agencies are required to send in a plan for “executing a reduction-in-force action”—in other words, layoffs—against their DEI employees. Trump’s order—entitled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing”—argues that DEI programs violate civil rights laws by illegally enforcing “dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences” that “deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement.” The White House also claimed that these policies are discriminatory because they select based on “how people were born instead of what they were capable of doing.” The Trump administration memo sent Tuesday also seeks to coerce federal employees into informing on their agencies and colleagues.
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Alex Nguyen, Mother Jones
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 2:45pm
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