Washington – On Friday, federal agencies rushed to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at reducing diversity, shares and inclusion programs.
Executive orders prompted a wave of notes and emails obtained by NBC News that modified the rules of employees in intelligence agencies, in military departments and through civil departments in relation to employee resources groups and celebrating cultural awareness events.
This week, the Defense Intelligence Agency has ordered the cessation of all activities and events related to Martin Luther King JR. Day, Black History Month, Juntenth, MultQ PRID order, according to a memorandum obtained by NBC News.
The memo included 11 banned celebrations now. He also said that all convergence groups and “employee network groups” stop immediately.
This guidance comes at a time when the Trump administration made a top priority to clarify any programs seen as linked to the encouragement of diversity, fairness and integration in the federal government.
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Path and former officials in the United States said that US intelligence agencies are also working to eliminate any activities that can be explained as support for previous Dei policies. The sources said that the agencies are still trying to identify the activities or events that will be banned, but officials are mistaken to be careful instead of danger to adhere to the administration’s orders.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the country’s intelligence services, has recently issued written guidelines for employees who say -relevant activities, according to an excluded from a memorandum obtained by NBC News. Future travel has also been canceled regarding these activities, according to the memo.
On Friday, the Pentagon leaders received a similar email that imposes that, immediately, they may not devote official resources, including working hours, to the most famous cultural awareness.
The memo added that the members of the service and civilians will be allowed to attend these events unofficial and outside the working hours.
As for the CIA, a spokesman for the agency said the executive order to cancel the DEI programs.
“The Central Intelligence Agency is compatible with the executive order. A spokesman for an email said:” We focus on the laser on the foreign intelligence mission. “
Former intelligence officials said that there is a risk that the administration’s movements to eliminate the events that coincide with Martin Luther King Day, or the ethnic heritage of the deepest or Americans can prove counterproductive and inhibit potential recruits from joining intelligence services.
CIA and other spy agencies have sought for decades to employment from a more varied group of talents to ensure that the country has intelligence officers with linguistic skills and cultural backgrounds that help improve intelligence collection abroad.
“From the perspective of the intelligence community, I really think it might harm our ability to do our work,” said a former senior official.
“We will suffocate talent pipelines that were already narrow to start. The former official added that this will deprive our intelligence community and our national security institution of knowledge, talent, skills and language … which may be of value in trying to bring someone into a foreign country.”
On Friday afternoon, the Personnel Management Office sent a note obtained by NBC News, which ordered the removal of all references to the “gender ideology” by 5 pm throughout the federal government.
The memo mentioned that this includes removing the references from everyone Web sites facing the year And social media accounts, specifically ordered the removal of Outlook claims that directed the employees to write their consciences.
In line with that new memorandum, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was also directed to remove all gender identification consciences from their email signatures by 5 pm on Friday.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reviews all the agency, contracts and grant programs that enhance or instill the ideology of both sexes, and we remove the media facing the outside that does the same thing,” wrote the new ambassador to the administration ambassador, Tipur B. Nagy in an email – the topic line that was “Defense of Women” – reviewed by NBC News. “The offices have already been alerted to review the exercises, shapes and plans that involve the ideology of sex.”
Last week, the Ministry of Justice sent a note to the employees who announced the closure of all its DEI programs, saying: “These programs divide the Americans by race, the taxpayers of taxpayers are lost, and led to a shameful discrimination.”
The Pentagon Note reported on Friday that the use of official resources for the most famous cultural awareness repeated the same language, saying that “the efforts made to divide power – to put one group on another – erode friendship and threatens to implement the mission.”
On his first day in office, Trump The executive order signed This explained “the end of all discriminatory programs, including illegal Dei and” diversity, fairness, integration, and accessibility “, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the federal government.”
A A similar email It came out of the Medicare and Medicaid service centers last week, where the employees were notified that all convergence groups, also known as employee resources groups, “are resolved and special celebrations are canceled.”
Ergs resources groups, which are located in both the public and private sectors, are voluntary groups led by employees for people who have similar backgrounds or life experiences. Common collections include groups of indigenous Americans, LGBTQ individuals, black staff, women, old warriors and others.
Other agencies also ended Ergs, Including the pride of the Ministry of JusticeA group of employees ’resources in the Ministry of Justice, which was located 30 years ago.
During a press conference on Friday, White House press secretary Caroline Levitte responded to a question from NBC News about whether Trump was planning to maintain traditions and sign a declaration about the month of black history before its start on Saturday.
“The president is looking to sign a declaration celebrating the month of black history. I have already spoken to our great secretary. He is in approval, and he will be ready to sign the president to indicate the beginning of that tomorrow,” Levitte said.
Trump later The advertisement took place.
“I invite public employees, teachers, library secretaries and all the residents of the United States to monitor this month through appropriate programs, celebrations and activities,” described by “suitable to celebrate the contributions of many black American American American American who formed our nation’s unimaginable history.”
Juntenth was created as a federal holiday Only four years agoDuring the Biden administration. Also known as the Editing Day, Black Independence Day and Jubilee, You salute the end vacation From slavery in the United States
This was the first federal holiday created since 1983, when Martin Luther King Junior Day was created.
Andrea M. said. O’Neill, a former White House official who helped lead in federal policies and celebrations behind the month of black history during the era of President Joe Biden, the celebrations allow full recognition of American history.
O’Neill also said they are helping to raise awareness about what societies faced that may have a direct impact on how to help the federal government better serve them.
“This type of decline raises frustration with societies that ultimately were a seat on the table [and] O’Neill said he was recently recognized for their contributions.
“When presidents and governments decide who is important [and] “Whoever is not, this has traces in the direction of the river, we may not completely understand it yet,” O’Neil said, adding that the changes that were implemented from the executive order will make people feel comfortable at work and cause a low morale.
Troy Blackwail, who worked in the Ministry of Commerce in the Biden Administration, said a large part of the Dei includes developing policies and resources within the reach of disadvantaged societies.
In his last year, which works in the Ministry of Commerce, Blackwell and his team opened patent resources libraries and brands in service institutions of Spanish origin, colleges and black universities historically.
Blackwail said: “I am sad to be honest.” “It is not sad and I think it is definitely a sign of the government’s transcendence.”
“We celebrate the month of black history, knowing that there was a history of slavery, Jim Crowe, civil rights, and what this did for the fabric of the United States and the contributions of African Americans who were overlooked for decades, but centuries,” but centuries, “but centuries,” Blackwell added, which is the Afro Latino. “The craft White House in which the president sits and his team is built by slaves.”
Trump’s inauguration occurred on MLK this year.
In a speech in the wake of his swelling party in the Capitol Rotonda, Trump admitted the historical importance of the holiday and spoke directly to black and Latin voters who were voting last year.
He said: “For black and Latin societies, I would like to thank you for the flow of love and the tremendous confidence that I have shown to me with your vote,” adding: “Today is Martin Luther King Day. His honor – this will was a great honor.
