Posted on 01/22/2025 10:07:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The warning came one day after the administration ordered that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the government be shut down by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
The Trump administration on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on colleagues who defy orders to purge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from their agencies.
Tens of thousands of workers were put on notice that officials would not tolerate any efforts to “disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.” Emails sent out, which were based on a template from the Office of Personnel Management, gave employees 10 days to report their observations to a special email account without risking disciplinary action.
“There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information,” the template sent to agency heads said. “However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences.”
The message also said: “These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars and resulted in shameful discrimination.”
Some agencies, such as the Education Department and the State Department, sent the template to their employees on Wednesday. Other agencies made slight modifications when they sent emails to their workers. The Department of Homeland Security, for example, said failure to report D.E.I. efforts “will result” in adverse consequences.
The warnings were a dramatic escalation of President Trump’s war on diversity programs that seek to reverse decades of systemic inequities. They were also part of a broader assault on the federal work force, which the president has long viewed as a bloated bureaucracy. He has pledged to eliminate departments and has ordered remote workers back to the office.
In his Inaugural Address, Mr. Trump said he would stop efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect...
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One of the best parts of the First Week of Trumpmas is that The Gaslight Media is in danger of running out of adult diapers.
Excellent. He must continue to root out saboteurs and gain control of the bureaucracy if the republic is to survive.
“I’ll take Slanted Headlines for $1,000, Ken.”
LOL. You win the thread.
That was funny right there...
Libs’ courageous defiance runs out right about the time they face real co sequences for their actions. Of course there would be efforts to keep dei programs in place under other names. But think we’ll see plenty of rats willing to snitch on those efforts to save their own skins
Oh the weeping and wailing. 😆
And gnashing of teeth!
If that is really the case, I would not be in favor of it. Sounds like Communism.
However, this is the New York Times. They have a propensity to exaggerate things in their efforts to push a biased agenda.
“If that is really the case, I would not be in favor of it. Sounds like Communism.”
No, rooting out communism is not communism. He is saying if you are in a federal job, and the same old DEI indoctrination is occurring in your workplace, as a federal employee you have a responsibility to report it upwards.
The directive is to rat out attempts to cover or change titles and job descriptions thus hiding individuals previously seated in DEI roles or currently seated in DEI roles under some other designation. The directive is to report the jobs that are in question and not the people.
The EO could not be much more clear. Only someone trying to twist the truth could mis-understand it.
Honestly, if Trump wants to take the most efficient route of rooting out who’s being hidden and where all of the skeleton’s are being kept, I can think of only one man for the job: James O’Keefe.
Or Sister Mary Stigmata.
Yes. How you report it, can make a difference.
The Times article implies that employees are required to snitch on colleagues or face "adverse consequences." I don't think that is the Trump administration's intention.
They set a new policy, which I agree with. It is the leadership's prerogative to enforce it (top down) and see that it is being implemented correctly.
The Times article implies that the Trump administration is going to make people tattle on their colleagues for "not" doing something, in an effort to paint the administration as an authoritarian regime.
There are ways to implement policies without resorting to left-wing tactics. The authors do not see those possibilities. They are blind to anything outside their own preconceived notion that Trump, and everything he does, is evil.
This is the fruit of the SES Senior Executive Service employees who were granted that status by kissing the DNC ring.
They are given a title and job description, which they keep by serving the party. Actual work is for peasants.
Snitch on cheaters or get fired?
Sounds like the policy of the military academies.
I like it.
“may result in adverse consequences.”
IOW, “... hell to pay...”
Puh-leeze - these people undermined his last term with their antics to defy our country.
No more. Threaten away, take their pensions, fire them - whatever - if they want to protect their comrades, they need to be prepared to eat the same 💩🥪 that those anti-American people will be served.
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