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ENDING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION PRACTICES: In 21 months back in office, President Donald J. Trump has removed wasteful and unmeritocratic DEI programs from government, education, and the private sector. President Trump promised it and delivered - DEI is dead.
- On day one, President Trump rescinded Orders from the previous administration that injected DEI into our institutions, replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy, and signed an Executive Order ending radical and wasteful DEI programs and preferencing in the Federal government.
- In January 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum terminating a Biden Administration Federal Aviation Administration hiring policy that prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion over safety and efficiency.
- In January 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order protecting the civil rights of all Americans and expanding individual opportunity by terminating radical DEI preferencing in federal contracting and directing federal agencies to relentlessly combat private sector discrimination.
- In January 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating race- and sex-based discrimination within the armed forces to restore merit and lethality to America's fighting force.
- In February 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum removing DEI from the Foreign Service.
- In March 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to ensure that programs or activities receiving any remaining Department of Education funds will not advance DEI or gender ideology.
- In March 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to restore truth and sanity to American history, including the Smithsonian Institution.
- In April 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to overhaul the higher education accreditation system, ensuring colleges and universities deliver high-quality, high-value education free from unlawful DEI discrimination and ideological overreach.
- In April 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order ensuring school discipline policies are based on objective behavior, not DEI.
- In April 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating the use of disparate-impact liability - the legal theory that differences in outcomes among races, sexes or similar groups indicate unlawful discrimination - in various contexts to ensure equal treatment under the law.
- In May 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order ending the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and the PBS after NPR described its DEI practices as "inseparable" from its content.
- In July 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to facilitate the rapid and efficient buildout of data center infrastructure and revoke a Biden-era Executive Order that would have saddled SI data center development on Federal lands with pages of DEI and climate requirements.
- In July 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order protecting Americans from biased SI outputs driven by ideologies like DEI at the cost of accuracy.
- In August 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order stopping unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from wasting taxpayer dollars on frivolous DEI grants.
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