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Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave
Associated Press ^ | January 21, 2025 | Alexandra Olson and Zeke Miller

Posted on 01/22/2025 6:48:34 AM PST by karpov

President Donald Trump ‘s administration moved Tuesday to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off.

The moves follow an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners. Trump has called the programs “discrimination” and insisted on restoring strictly “merit-based” hiring.

The executive order on affirmative action revokes an order issued by President Lyndon Johnson, and curtails DEI programs by federal contractors and grant recipients. It’s using one of the key tools utilized by the Biden administration to promote DEI programs across the private sector — pushing their use by federal contractors — to now eradicate them.

The Office of Personnel Management in a Tuesday memo directed agencies to place DEI office staffers on paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday and take down all public DEI-focused webpages by the same deadline. Several federal departments had removed the webpages even before the memorandum. Agencies must also cancel any DEI-related training and end any related contracts, and federal workers are being asked to report to Trump’s Office of Personnel Management if they suspect any DEI-related program has been renamed to obfuscate its purpose within 10 days or face “adverse consequences.”

By Thursday, federal agencies are directed to compile a list of federal DEI offices and workers as of Election Day. By next Friday, they are expected to develop a plan to execute a “reduction-in-force action” against those federal workers.

The memo was first reported by CBS News.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dei

1 posted on 01/22/2025 6:48:35 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Major League Winning


2 posted on 01/22/2025 6:50:27 AM PST by xp38
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To: karpov
By Thursday, federal agencies are directed to compile a list of federal DEI offices and workers as of Election Day. By next Friday, they are expected to develop a plan to execute a “reduction-in-force action” against those federal workers.

Nice. I wonder how big this list is.

3 posted on 01/22/2025 6:51:24 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: karpov

Score!


4 posted on 01/22/2025 6:51:30 AM PST by NeverTyranny
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To: karpov

This is GREAT! Let the race and gender hustlers get a real job!


5 posted on 01/22/2025 6:55:14 AM PST by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT!)
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To: karpov
There won't be a lot of public sob stories because these institutions couldn't fill those slots.

They were getting rid of DEI anyway because of shortages, and now got the Republican half of the Uniparty to take the blame.

The solution to DEI was more DEI, and it was working - forcing the Left to choke on their own policies. Don't interfere with an enemy who's in the process of making a mistake.

6 posted on 01/22/2025 6:55:32 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: karpov

Winning!


7 posted on 01/22/2025 6:56:02 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: karpov

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4291753/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4291839/posts

They still get paid. For now. But I’d suggest they polish their resumes for a new career path.


8 posted on 01/22/2025 6:57:25 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: karpov

There’s still plenty of DEI “jobs” in the private sector. COSTCO is pimping DEI when their employees are not out there on strike.


9 posted on 01/22/2025 6:58:20 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Dark Days are over. We don't want your criminals. Stop sending your scum to America!)
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To: karpov

I hope he nails that big 600 pounder DEI pig in the burlap sack dress famous for her meme.


10 posted on 01/22/2025 6:59:58 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Dark Days are over. We don't want your criminals. Stop sending your scum to America!)
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To: karpov

This is so heart warming. A new, sensible day in America. Thank you, Pres. Trump.


11 posted on 01/22/2025 7:11:25 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: 1Old Pro

Reduction in force takes time.

I would detail them to North and South Dakota nuclear missile bases for the rest of the winter.

If they fail to show up at the igloo “office” they are fired.


12 posted on 01/22/2025 7:16:06 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: karpov

also, their FedGov email access has been terminated, and they are no longer allowed access to their Federal offices ...

IOW, they’re now totally out in the cold and are unable to utilize Fed resources to “resist” President Trump’s agenda from within ... this is exactly how employees are usually terminated in large corporations ...

still, i guess being frog-marched out of the office was too much to hope for ...


13 posted on 01/22/2025 7:18:59 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: karpov

I’m not tired yet. More winning, please!


14 posted on 01/22/2025 7:22:18 AM PST by dinodino ( Cut it down anyway. )
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To: xp38

True. I’d love to know when/if that crowd of lazy, entitled, overpaid and biased losers in US universities will be canned as well

Think of the effect that would have in reducing tuition!


15 posted on 01/22/2025 7:35:51 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: karpov
diversity, equity and inclusion

AKA Didn't Earn It

16 posted on 01/22/2025 7:47:59 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: karpov
How we gonna tell who is better than the other?

YOU'RE FIRED !


17 posted on 01/22/2025 8:29:18 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: karpov

This is like excising a cancerous tumor in the government. Also, it may be the deathknell for the disgusting DEI “consultants” infecting society.


18 posted on 01/22/2025 9:26:15 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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>>”They still get paid. For now. But I’d suggest they polish their resumes for a new career path.”

I suggest that Trump create a department tasked with encouraging and spreading appreciation of our founding fathers. If they refuse to do their job then fire them.


19 posted on 01/22/2025 12:57:09 PM PST by mbrfl
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