President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 20 aimed at dismantling all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government. The order mandated the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to collaborate with federal agencies to terminate DEI programs.

Since President Trump signed an EO to rid the government of DEI programs, the administration says 395 workers have been placed on leave and around $420 million in related contracts have been canceled.

In addition, the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, announced on X (formerly Twitter) Friday that approximately $420 million in current and impending contracts—primarily focused on DEI initiatives—had been canceled, Fox added.

Agencies should aim for a 30-day deadline to implement Trump’s return-to-office executive order, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.

During an unscheduled stop on the casino floor at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday, Donald Trump said he might terminate the contracts of thousands of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workers, reviving debunked claims that the agency has hired 88,000 enforcement agents to go after taxpayers in the past few years.

Donald Trump’s Justice Department cited an archaic statute in a legal filing Wednesday, arguing that the president’s executive order ending constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship should be totally kosher, since the children of Native Americans weren’t historically considered citizens, either.

During an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity Wednesday night, Trump was in the middle of complaining about Biden’s last-minute pardons for his family members and Trump critics when the president suggested that his predecessor could use the same protections.

A new Office of Personnel Management memo also tells agencies to determine whether or not the new federal hires should be retained at the agency.

The Office of Personnel Management has created a new email account meant to collect reports of suspected diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, one of a series of moves the Trump administration has taken to slash DEI efforts across the federal workforce.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is testing a new capability that would allow officials to email the entire federal government workforce from a single email address, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said in a statement Friday.

Federal DEI hires had to know what was coming when President Donald Trump began his historic second term on Monday by rescinding the Executive Order that President Biden started his term in 2021 with—one that ordered the promotion of racial preferences throughout his administration.

The ATF is coming under fire for allegedly quietly changing the job title of its DEI officer to "senior executive" as President Donald Trump shutters DEI offices.