President Donald Trump on Monday evening issued an executive order aimed at dismantling all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government.
“The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government,” the order states. It accuses DEI initiatives of replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive preferential hierarchy, and also criticizes climate policies, claiming they contributed to inflation and overburdened businesses with regulation.
The sweeping directive, teased before he became president and signed at the Capital One Arena on…
