President Donald Trump this week rescinded an executive order aimed at banning discrimination. Through federal contractors and subcontractors As part of his concerted effort to dismantle federal diversity programs.
The White House said in a memo Wednesday that the executive order, signed a day earlier, “protects the civil rights of all Americans by eliminating the radical DEI priority in the federal contract and allowing federal agencies to discriminate against the private sector.” Individual opportunities are enhanced by directing persistent coping behavior.”
gave Order of cancellation One “requires affirmative action and prohibits federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin”. Summary It was signed by Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson on behalf of the Department of Labor and initially covered government employees but was later limited to contractors.
Trump’s Order Tuesday also rescinded executive actions by Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama that sought to further promote diversity and inclusion in federal government hiring.
Trump said in his order that diversity efforts “violate the letter and spirit of our longstanding federal civil rights laws” and “undermine our national unity, because they undermine hard work, excellence, and traditional American values.” Denial, stigmatization, and vulnerability favor an illegitimate, corrosive, and harmful identity-based system of individual success.”
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A White House memo called Trump’s order “the most important federal civil rights initiative in decades.”
“It eliminates ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ (DEI) discrimination in the federal workforce, and in federal contracting and spending,” the memo said.
Although this order is focused at the federal level, it also has implications for the private sector. It calls on the U.S. attorney general to work with other agencies and submit a report by May “taking other appropriate steps to enforce federal civil rights laws and to encourage the private sector.” Go to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including DEI.”
The order states that the report must focus on “the most rigorous and discriminatory DEI practitioners in each area of concern,” and include a “strategic implementation plan,” including the possibility of civil rights litigation.
“As part of this plan, each agency will work with publicly traded corporations, large nonprofit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of $500 million or more, state and local bar and medical associations. will identify nine potential civil compliance investigations of and institutions of higher education with endowments greater than $1 billion,” the order said.
The memo suggests that the effort will focus on corporations and colleges.
“In the private sector, many corporations and universities use DEI as an excuse for biased and illegal employment practices and illegal admissions preferences, ignoring the fact that DEI’s core statements and ideals are intergroup. promote hostility and authoritarianism,” the memo said.
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In another executive order on Monday, Trump directed the end of DEI programs within the government. On Tuesday, his administration ordered all federal employees in DEI roles to be placed on paid leave beginning Wednesday.
A memo from the Office of Personnel Management asked federal agencies to submit a written plan to lay off employees in DEI roles by Jan. 31.
Everett Kelly, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents millions of federal workers, said Tuesday that “the federal government already hires and promotes based exclusively on merit.”
He called Trump’s move “a smokescreen to fire public servants, weaken an apolitical civil service, and turn the federal government into an army of loyalists to the president, not the Constitution.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Kelly’s remarks.
