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Trump ends federal contractor civil rights order with roots that go back to FDR
Trump ends federal contractor civil rights order with roots that go back to FDR
In revoking Executive Order 11246, Trump took aim at history and efforts to combat discrimination. Also: Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship is blocked for now.
Chris Geidner
Jan 23, 2025
On January 21, President Donald Trump revoked an executive order that has guided federal contractor nondiscrimination policy for nearly 60 years — and that has a history that reaches back nearly another 25 years.
The move from Trump revoking Executive Order 11246 was part of an expansive executive order aimed at eliminating diversity programs across the government, in federal contractors’ businesses, and in all private business. That order, in turn, has been a part of a government-wide move to reverse former president Joe Biden’s orders supporting diversity and declare that efforts supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion are — depending on the order — “illegal and immoral” or not “American … values.” All of those orders, in turn, work in tandem with Trump’s other executive orders aimed at Trump exerting more control over the federal workforce.
It is nothing less than an effort to erase as much progress as possible achieved in making workplaces safer and more equitable for people of color; for women; for LGBTQ people; and, somehow, for people with accessibility needs required under federal law.
The immediate effects of the Trump administration’s anti-diversity efforts were perhaps most starkly seen in the news that all employees of all Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Offices across the federal government were being placed on paid leave this week following a memorandum from Charles Ezell, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, to the heads of agencies and departments on January 21.
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In revoking Executive Order 11246, Trump took aim at history and efforts to combat discrimination. Also: Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship is blocked for now.
Chris Geidner
Jan 23, 2025
On January 21, President Donald Trump revoked an executive order that has guided federal contractor nondiscrimination policy for nearly 60 years — and that has a history that reaches back nearly another 25 years.
The move from Trump revoking Executive Order 11246 was part of an expansive executive order aimed at eliminating diversity programs across the government, in federal contractors’ businesses, and in all private business. That order, in turn, has been a part of a government-wide move to reverse former president Joe Biden’s orders supporting diversity and declare that efforts supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion are — depending on the order — “illegal and immoral” or not “American … values.” All of those orders, in turn, work in tandem with Trump’s other executive orders aimed at Trump exerting more control over the federal workforce.
It is nothing less than an effort to erase as much progress as possible achieved in making workplaces safer and more equitable for people of color; for women; for LGBTQ people; and, somehow, for people with accessibility needs required under federal law.
The immediate effects of the Trump administration’s anti-diversity efforts were perhaps most starkly seen in the news that all employees of all Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Offices across the federal government were being placed on paid leave this week following a memorandum from Charles Ezell, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, to the heads of agencies and departments on January 21.
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The antonyms for the words “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are “segregation, conformity, inequity, injustice, bias, discrimination, exclusion, and omission.
So proud of our country finally standing up against diversity
