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  • 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

    03/21/2025 4:35:07 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 24 replies
    NPR ^ | Updated March 20, 2025 3:31 PM ET | Selena Simmons-Duffin
    After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies. The memo explains that it is making changes prompted by President Trump's executive order on diversity, equity and inclusion, which repealed an executive order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 regarding federal contractors and nondiscrimination. The memo also addresses Trump's executive order on gender identity.While there are still state...