The Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI is causing major changes in some federal agencies, according to social media posts by one attorney.
Mark Zaid, an attorney who focuses on national security issues, shared what he was hearing in a post on social media platform X.
“It goes beyond what happened at DHS & NASA today,” he wrote Wednesday.
1/It goes beyond what happened at DHS & NASA today.
CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate to former offices.
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) January 23, 2025
“CIA employees were told all resource & affinity groups are canceled. No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months. DEI folks are to be fired rather than allowed to rotate to former offices,” he wrote.
“CIA is also apparently banning lanyards that have to do with affinity groups. Women’s Council had to take down website & cancel all events, incl women’s history month,” he wrote in another post.
END/CIA is also apparently banning lanyards that have to do with affinity groups. Women’s Council had to take down website & cancel all events, incl women’s history month.
They are also compiling lists of members within affinity groups.
Because that’s not reminiscent of 1930s.
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) January 23, 2025
“They are also compiling lists of members within affinity groups. Because that’s not reminiscent of 1930s,” he wrote.
There was no official confirmation of what was taking shape internally in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump to dismantle the DEI apparatus in every federal agency. John Ratcliffe was confirmed as the new CIA director on Thursday, according to USA Today.
Trump’s order required “all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements.”
Federal agencies are changing titles and job descriptions to get around Trump’s directives banning DEI in the Federal Government
Whoever is caught doing this should face legal action pic.twitter.com/Z4RUmYhvTX
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 23, 2025
“I further order all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities,” the order said.
That was followed by an order from the Office of Personnel Management to put all federal staff holding jobs in which they implemented DEI rules to be put on leave, according to NBC.
A report from Fox News said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in the hot seat because it tried to shift an employee who was its chief diversity officer to the title of “senior executive.”
The ATF defied @realDonaldTrump’s order to place DEI workers on leave, instead giving their DEI officer a new title.
They attack citizens’ rights, ignore leadership, and act as though they’re above the law.
Enough is enough. Time to abolish the ATF! pic.twitter.com/0JajAdeeXA
— Eric Burlison (@EricBurlison) January 22, 2025
“The ATF defied @realDonaldTrump’s order to place DEI workers on leave, instead giving their DEI officer a new title. They attack citizens’ rights, ignore leadership, and act as though they’re above the law. Enough is enough. Time to abolish the ATF!” Republican Rep. Eric Burlison of Missouri posted on X.
Lisa T. Boykin had been the ATF’s chief diversity officer until Tuesday, when after the DEI order was issued, her title became “senior executive” in the agency.
The ATF is part of the Department of Justice.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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