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President Donald Trump signs executive orders during an indoor inauguration parade at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C.President Donald Trump has issued a memorandum to executive branch agencies and departments, telling them to place all diversity, equity and inclusion related federal workers on paid leave and informing them that those workers would soon be laid off.
Trump’s order demands that any federal employee hired because of DEI policies or who works in a DEI-based program. The memo also states that federal departments should come up with a written plan to permanently terminate those workers by the end of this month., when former President Lyndon Johnson directed the Labor Department to expand protections to people of color and women when it comes to hiring within the federal government.
“There’s this clear effort to hinder, if not erode, the political and economic power of people of color and women,”“These so-called ‘colorblind’ policies don’t level the playing field — they erase it,” Bennett said. “Without DEI, we risk shutting minorities out of opportunities they’ve worked hard to earn.
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