President Trump has expanded his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, revoking a 60-year-old executive order, signed by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, banning hiring discrimination by federal contractors.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration also ordered federal employees to report on their colleagues who refuse to comply with orders to purge DEI initiatives, threatening “adverse consequences” for employees who fail to report their co-workers. This comes a day after the Trump administration placed employees in any federal DEI offices on immediate administrative leave.