First on Fox: President Donald Trump’s executive order End all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) Its programs have already marginalized 395 government bureaucrats, a senior administration official told Fox News Digital.
TrumpThe newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he heads Elon Muskwrote in X Friday that approximately $420 million in existing/imminent contracts, primarily focused on DEI initiatives, were also canceled.
After Trump signed the order on his inauguration day, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) told agency and department heads that they must begin taking steps to close all DEI offices by the end of Wednesday and place government employees on duty. In those offices on paid leave. It is not yet clear when or if it will be terminated.
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President Trump’s executive order ending all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government has left 395 workers on paid leave, a senior administration official told Fox News Digital on Saturday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Charles Ezell, sent a memo to department and agency heads and acting department heads Tuesday evening directing them that by the end of business on Jan. 22, they must inform all agency employees of the closure of DEI. Additionally, they were directed to tell workers directly involved in DEI that they will be placed on paid leave immediately, remove all websites and social media accounts related to DEI, cancel any related contracts or training, and require employees to report any efforts to conceal DEI programs using coded or imprecise language.
The memorandum also directed agency and department heads, by noon on January 23, to provide OPM with lists of all relevant DEI offices, staff, and contracts in effect as of November 5, 2024.
By Friday, January 24, at 5 p.m., agency heads were requested to submit to OPM a written plan for implementing the reduction-in-force action with respect to DEI staff and a list of all contract descriptions or staff position descriptions that have been changed since November. 5, 2024, to hide their connection to DEI programs.
After Trump signed the order on his inauguration day, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) told agency and department heads that they must begin taking steps to close all DEI offices by the end of Wednesday, and the government put workers in those offices on paid leave. (Fox News Digital-Hannah Grossman)
The executive order was among dozens Trump signed on his first day in office, including only the government Recognition of two genders And withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.
He also issued two other executive actions Tuesday targeting DEI — an executive order to end discrimination in the workplace and higher education through race- and gender-based preferences under the guise of DEI and a memo to remove a Biden administration policy that prioritized DEI hiring at the FAA.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it canceled about $420 million in DEI-related contracts this week. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Trump’s executive order on Monday rescinded President Joe Biden’s order on strengthening diversity initiatives, “Promoting Racial Equity and Supporting Underserved Communities through the Federal Government,” which he signed on his first day in office.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Landon Munn contributed to this report.
