Donald Trump moved quickly to implement his executive order to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in the federal government as he plans to fire all DEI hires tomorrow.
The new Trump administration sent a letter Tuesday to all heads and acting heads of government agencies, informing them that all federal employees in DEI positions must be on paid leave on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
All DEI offices in federal agencies will be closed in connection with the move, which comes after Trump signed an anti-DEI executive order before a cheering crowd during his inauguration on Monday.
In a letter first obtained by CBS News and shared with
The letter also asks employees within the departments to report “any attempts to disguise these programs by using coded or inaccurate language.”
Any employees who are aware of “coded or inaccurate language” intended to keep DEI employees alive but do not report it within 10 days will be warned of “adverse consequences.”
Trump's executive order, titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions,” directly reverses a DEI executive order issued by President Biden.
The order concludes: “These programs divided Americans on the basis of race, wasted taxpayer dollars and resulted in outrageous discrimination.”
Donald Trump quickly implemented his executive order to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in the federal government by firing all DEI employees tomorrow
When Trump signed the anti-DEI executive order in one of his first actions in the White House, he condemned the practice as “illegal, immoral and discriminatory.”
His executive order condemned the “infiltration” of DEI programs into the federal government and referenced an executive order Biden signed four years ago on the first day of his presidency that aimed to address racial inequality in the government .
In a memo issued by the White House on Tuesday evening, the Trump administration called progress made decades ago through the passage of civil rights legislation lost on DEI programs.
Today, roughly sixty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, critical and influential institutions of American society, including the federal government, major corporations, financial institutions, the medical industry, major commercial airlines, law enforcement agencies, and institutions higher education has adopted and actively used dangerous, demeaning and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called “diversity, equity and inclusivity,” the memo said.
It argued that the programs “not only violate the text and spirit of our long-standing federal civil rights laws, but also undermine our national unity.”
“They deny, discredit, and undermine traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based system of plunder,” the memo continued.
“Hardworking Americans who deserve a shot at the American Dream should not be stigmatized, demeaned or excluded from opportunities because of their race or gender.”
