After waging war against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders in his first days in office that overturned decades of diversity-related employment laws.
On the first day of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” that ordered the Office of Management and Budgeting to work with the attorney general and the Office of Personnel Management to eliminate any DEI programs and DEI-related roles in the federal government. Employees in those roles were placed on paid administrative leave the next day.
A day later, Trump signed another executive order, titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” While the first order mentioned only President Joe Biden’s DEI policies, the second order specifically revoked five diversity-related presidential memos and executive orders from previous decades, including President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Equal Employment Opportunity executive order.
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