Federal Workers Ordered to Report on Colleagues Over D.E.I. Crackdown

The New York Times ^ | Jan. 22, 2025 | Erica L. Green, Hamed Aleaziz

[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...

[pghbjugop]

“Sounds like communism” I understand and slightly agree with you, but if you read the directive, it is extremely well written. All DEI staff were to be laid off as of 5pm Wednesday. All these orders are to be carried out and reported by management and dept heads, who have no staff. No one has been fired and that is a real headache to fire these people. All staff are on paid leave. Now management is required to report all this information and the names, titles and job descriptions as of Nov. 5, 2024! Which is brilliant. These managers have no people’s jobs to save other than their own. Everyone is or should be gone. Now if they don’t follow the directive, OPM has grounds to fire for insubordination, which again is always a pain because the government gets sued every time someone is fired, they lose and get their jobs back, and the government union law firms and government rep law firms, who are all buddies and in bed with each other divvy up the proceeds. I can’t think of a better way of doing this. At this point, you really don’t want to fire everyone because you lose control of these people and cause countless headaches that Trump doesn’t need right now.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Everyone at the degenerate, subversive New York Times is going to be dealt with. Soon, very soon. /spit

[RightOnTheBorder]

Communist ideals are rotten but their tactics are effective. This particular tactic is perfect if you want to thin the ranks of an organization. Are you DEI, you are gone. Did you know about DEI and not report it, you are gone too. The DEI in the news now, where they tried to change her title, is an opportunity to fire everyone above and adjacent to her for insubordination.