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The White House released a memo last week that may turn out to be the last
will and testament for diversity, equity and inclusion programs — and not
just for government agencies.

During the campaign, Donald Trump pledged he would eliminate DEI. As
president, he’s fulfilling that promise with a thoroughness never seen in
a Republican administration.

Effective immediately, federal departments, boards and agencies must use a colorblind process when hiring and promoting. Employees responsible for implementing DEI projects have been placed on paid administrative leave
pending “reduction in force action.” DEI website pages and related
propaganda have been purged.

Mr. Trump even issued a special directive to restore merit-based hiring at
the Federal Aviation Administration. Under President Obama, “diversity
goals” that were introduced turned away thousands of qualified applicants
for air traffic control positions simply because of their race.

A handful of agency holdouts are attempting to cloak their DEI initiatives
by renaming them, but watchdogs have noticed. At the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, for instance, the chief diversity
officer position has become “senior executive.” Nice try.

Newly elevated Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, by contrast, was eager to document his agency’s compliance after he canceled
a half-dozen of his predecessor’s initiatives. Mr. Carr noted that
existing law had already prohibited the FCC from creating “radical and
wasteful DEI programs,” but the prior administration had set them up
anyway.

This course correction also applies to federal grant recipients.

“In the private sector, many corporations and universities use DEI as an
excuse for biased and unlawful employment practices and illegal admissions preferences, ignoring the fact that DEI’s foundational rhetoric and ideas foster intergroup hostility and authoritarianism,” the presidential memo explains.

Any business that depends on Uncle Sam for its existence will have to
certify that the workplace is free from “illegal DEI.” That means
companies can no longer exclude White men, Asians or people of faith to
meet arbitrary diversity quotas. Better yet, existing employees will never again be forced to sit through mandatory PowerPoint presentations about
White guilt sponsored by corporate diversity czars.

The administration is enforcing the new policy through compliance investigations at publicly traded companies, large nonprofits, bar associations, medical associations and universities with endowments in
excess of $1 billion.

This is consistent with the Supreme Court precedent developed in academia
over the past two decades. “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of
race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority in 2007. The high court held school admissions policies can’t be based on skin color.

The court expanded the application of this principle in striking down
Harvard’s affirmative action schemes. “Eliminating racial discrimination
means eliminating all of it,” the chief justice reiterated in 2023.

Conduct that violates constitutional protections in a schoolhouse is just
as illegal when it takes place behind the doors of a corporate boardroom.
Mr. Trump’s executive order merely accelerates a process already underway
to bring universities and Wall Street back in line with America’s founding principles.

The activist group America First Legal has filed more than two dozen EEOC complaints against major businesses, including Activision and Williams
Sonoma. Elevated public scrutiny has convinced executives they’ve been on
the losing side of history, resulting in DEI being dropped voluntarily.

Mr. Trump’s executive order should shut down all but the most stubborn
outposts of regressive thinking.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/27/editorial-dei-meets-doom/

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