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The Department of Defense (DoD) is the latest bureau that is disbanding each diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs pursuing President Donald Trump's enforcement bid terminating each national DEI programs.
"The President’s guidance (lawful orders) is clear: No much DEI astatine Dept. of Defense," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote successful a station connected X.
In a handwritten enactment shared on with the station connected X, Hegseth wrote: "The Pentagon volition comply, immediately. No exceptions, name-changes, oregon delays."
Hegseth added that "those who bash not comply volition nary longer enactment here."
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., echoed Hegseth, writing: "The champion mode to halt discriminating against radical connected the ground of contention oregon sex is to halt discriminating against radical connected the ground of contention oregon gender," Kennedy wrote successful a station connected X. "Let DEI die."
Hegseth, 44, was sworn successful connected Saturday greeting aft helium secured his confirmation to pb the Pentagon connected Friday aft weeks of aggravated governmental play surrounding his information and nationalist scrutiny into his idiosyncratic life.
"All praise and glory to God. His volition beryllium done and we're grateful to beryllium here," Hegseth said aft taking the oath of office, surrounded by his woman and children.
Hegseth is simply a erstwhile Minnesota National Guard serviceman who served successful Iraq and Afghanistan and a erstwhile Fox News host.
Trump’s recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed up by Elon Musk, reported that astir $420 cardinal successful current/impending contracts, chiefly focused connected DEI initiatives, had besides been canceled.
On Inauguration Day, Trump signed an enforcement order that forced each DEI offices to adjacent and placed each authorities workers successful those offices connected paid leave.
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Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Charles Ezell sent a memo to heads and acting heads of departments and agencies directing them that by the extremity of concern connected Jan. 22, they were to pass each bureau employees of the DEI shutdown. In addition, they were instructed to archer workers straight progressive successful DEI to instrumentality down each DEI-related websites and societal media accounts, cancel immoderate related contracts oregon training, and inquire employees to study immoderate efforts to disguise DEI programs by utilizing coded oregon imprecise language.
The memo besides directed the heads of agencies and departments that by noon connected Jan. 23, they were to supply OPM with lists of each DEI offices, employees, and related contracts successful effect arsenic of Nov. 5, 2024.
By Friday, Jan. 24, astatine 5 p.m., bureau heads were required to taxable to OPM a written program for executing a reduction-in-force enactment regarding DEI employees and a database of each declaration descriptions oregon unit presumption descriptions that were changed since Nov. 5, 2024, to obscure their transportation to DEI programs.
The president besides signed an bid making it "the authoritative argumentation of the U.S. authorities to lone admit 2 genders: antheral and female."
Trump issued 2 different executive actions targeting DEI — an enforcement bid to extremity favoritism successful the workplace and higher acquisition done race- and sex-based preferences nether the guise of DEI and a memo to destruct a Biden medication argumentation that prioritized DEI hiring astatine the Federal Aviation Administration.
In his enforcement order, Trump wrote that helium sought to support Americans from favoritism based connected race, color, religion, enactment oregon nationalist origin. He said these civil-rights protections "serve arsenic a bedrock supporting equality of accidental for each Americans" and that helium "has a solemn work to guarantee that these laws are enforced for the payment of each Americans."
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"Yet today, astir 60 years aft the transition of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, captious and influential institutions of American society, including the Federal Government, large corporations, fiscal institutions, the aesculapian industry, ample commercialized airlines, instrumentality enforcement agencies, and institutions of higher acquisition person adopted and actively usage dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences nether the guise of alleged 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' (DEI) oregon 'diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility' (DEIA) that tin interruption the civil-rights laws of this Nation," the bid reads.
It adds that these "illegal DEI and DEIA policies besides endanger the information of American men, women, and children crossed the Nation by diminishing the value of idiosyncratic merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination erstwhile selecting radical for jobs and services successful cardinal sectors of American society, including each levels of government, and the medical, aviation, and law-enforcement communities.
Prior to Trump's order, the FBI closed its DEI bureau successful December.
Fox News' Brooke Singman, Brie Stimson, Michael Dorgan and Landon Mion contributed to this report.
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