The U.S. Mint has hidden its five diversity, equity, and inclusion personnel from President Trump’s axe—and has even deleted the chief DEI officer’s background from its website, a whistleblower has told The Free Press.

On January 20, Trump issued an executive order effectively terminating all DEI offices, positions, and programs across the federal government. The U.S. Mint, a division of the U.S. Treasury responsible for manufacturing coins, has employed five staffers in its Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) since the department’s inception in 2022. On December 3, 2024, the OEI office was closed and all five staffers were rehomed in other parts of the agency, Mint employee Brian Martin told The Free Press.

Martin said he is personally aware of these moves—because two of the staffers have since taken his job.

Martin, who used to work as a web content manager in the Mint’s public affairs department, said two DEI officers—Luz Sullivan and Vicky Best-Morris—are now doing the PR duties he once performed, including writing and distributing educational content for children, conducting outreach to schools, and supervising public affairs contractors. On December 29, he was reassigned to the sales and marketing department. Before he was shifted, chief human capital officer Cami McClain told Martin the move was “for efficiency” and “based solely on the business needs of the Mint,” according to an email obtained by The Free Press.

This led Martin to register a formal complaint to...

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