President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign promise on Monday when he revoked a series of executive orders signed into law by President Joe Biden which largely established a DEI (Diversity, equity and inclusion) framework across the federal government.

The rollback of DEI provisions was part of a flurry of actions that President Trump undertook on his first day in office to revoke Biden-era policies promoting equity and opportunity for diverse populations, including Native Americans, Hispanics, Black Americans and LGBTQ+.

In the introduction to his executive order, the Trump White House issued the following statement, "The injection of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) into our institutions has corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy."

As a follow-up, President Trump issued an executive order that targeted executive actions of previous administrations from as far back as the 1960s that promoted equal employment opportunity and diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce, among other guiding principles, which the White House referred to as "illegal discrimination."

"These illegal DEI and DEIA policies also threaten the safety of American men, women, and children across the Nation by diminishing the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination when selecting people for jobs and services in key sectors of American society, including all levels of government, and the...

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