President Trump has signed a Memorandum putting all federal Variety, Fairness, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) staff on administrative depart, pending the termination of those applications beneath Trump’s “Ending Radical and Wasteful Authorities DEI Applications and Preferencing and Preliminary Rescissions of Dangerous Govt Orders and Actions” Govt Order.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, this is among the greater than 40 government actions aimed toward restoring nationwide sovereignty, financial prosperity, public security, and racial equality, which Trump signed instantly after taking his Oath of Workplace.
Already, on Tuesday, DEI Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan was fired by the appearing Secretary of Homeland Safety Benjamin Huffman as a result of a number of operational failures beneath her watch together with rampant political correctness.
Trump’s newest anti-DEI measure provides particular directions to company heads to shut the DEIA workplaces.
A template e-mail for workers supplied to company heads reads, “These applications divided People by race, wasted taxpayer {dollars}, and resulted in shameful discrimination.”
The memo provides the next directions to company heads to shut DEIA workplaces:
1. No later than 5:00 pm EST on Wednesday January 22, 2025
a. Ship an agency-wide discover to staff informing them of the closure and asking staff in the event that they know of any efforts to disguise these applications by utilizing coded or imprecise language a template agency-wide discover is connected as Appendix I.
b. Ship a notification to all staff of DEIA workplaces that they’re being positioned on paid administrative depart efficient instantly because the company takes steps to shut/finish all DEIA initiatives, workplaces and applications.’ A template worker letter is connected as Appendix 2.
c. Take down all outward going through media (web sites, social media accounts, and many others.) of DEIA workplaces
d. Withdraw any ultimate or pending paperwork, directives, orders, supplies, and fairness plans issued by the company in response to now-repealed Govt Order 14035, Variety, Fairness, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) within the Federal Workforce (June 25, 2021).
e. Cancel any DEIA-related trainings, and terminate any DEIA-related contractors.
2. No later than 12:00 pm EST on Thursday. January 23. 2025, report back to OPM on all steps taken to implement this memorandum, together with:
a. an entire checklist of DEIA workplaces and any staff who in these workplaces as of November 5, 2024.
b. an entire checklist of all DEIA-related company contracts as of November 5, 2024, and
c. any company plans to totally adjust to the above Govt Orders and this
memorandum3. No later than 5:00 pm EST on Friday. Januarv 31. 2025, undergo OPM:
a. a written plan for executing a reduction-in-force motion relating to the staff who work in a DEIA workplace. Companies ought to coordinate with OPM in making ready these plans,
b. an inventory of all contract descriptions or personnel place descriptions that have been modified since November 5, 2024 to obscure their connection to DEIA applications
The e-mail template supplied to company heads additional notes, “We’re conscious of efforts by some in authorities to disguise these applications by utilizing coded or imprecise language” and directs companies to report “any contract description or personnel place description since November 5, 2024.”
CBS Information White Home correspondent Ed O’Keefe stated on X, “All federal staff in DEI roles should be positioned on paid depart by 5pm Wednesday as these workplaces and applications are being ordered shut down.”
“To each reporter asking about this: I can gladly verify!” Press Secretary Leavitt cheered in response.
To each reporter asking about this: I can gladly verify! https://t.co/gRb356vSwO
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) January 22, 2025