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The Department of Defense (DOD) It is the last agency that is dissolving all programs of diversity, heritage and inclusion (DEI) after the executive order of President Donald Trump to complete all Federal programs Dei.
“The guidance of the President (legal orders) is clear: there is no more in the Department of Defense.” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth He wrote in a post to X.
In a shared handwritten note along with the publication in X, Hegseth wrote: “The Pentagon will fulfill immediately. No exceptions, name changes or delays.”
Hegseth added that “those who do not fulfill will no longer work here.”
The White House opm orders all Dei offices to start closing on Wednesday by the end of the day
Senator John Kennedy, R-la., Echoes Hegseth, writing: “The best way to stop the discrimination of people on the basis of race or gender is to stop discriminating people on the basis of race or genre, “Kennedy wrote in a public to X.” Let Dei die “.
44 -year -old Hegseth was sworn on Saturday morning after he secured his confirmation to lead the Pentagon on Friday after weeks of intense political drama surrounding his public nomination and scrutiny in his personal life.
“All praise and glory to God. It will be done and we are grateful to be here,” said Hegseth after the oath of office, surrounded by his wife and children.
Hegseth is an ex -Minnesota National Guard office that served in Iraq and Afghanistan and an old Fox News host.
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, announced that he ends with all Dei’s programs and policies on the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
The newly created of the Trump Government Efficiency Department (DOGE), led by Elon MuskHe reported that about $ 420 million in current/imminent contracts, mainly focused on DEI initiatives, had also been canceled.
On the opening day, Trump signed an executive order This forced all the offices to close and place all government workers in these offices on paid leave.
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Pete Hegseth is surrounded by his wife and seven children, as he is sworn as new Secretary of Defense by Vice President JD Vance in the Eisenhower Executive Office building in Washington White House, DC, 25th January 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)
The acting director of the Personnel Management Office (OPM), Charles Ezell, sent a note to the heads and heads of departments and agencies, directing them that at the end of the business on January 22 they had to inform to all employees of the detention agency of the DEI. In addition, they were received the instruction to say to the workers directly involved in DEI that demolish all websites and accounts of social networks related to the DEI, they will cancel the related contracts or training and ask the employees to report to Any effort to disguise DEI programs by using the coded or inaccurate language.
The note also directed the heads of agencies and departments that at noon on January 23 had to provide the OPM Lists of all the offices of DEI, employees and contracts related in force on November 5, 2024.
On Friday, January 24, at 5 p. Personnel position descriptions that were changed from Nov. 5, 2024, to darken their connection with the Dei programs.
The President also signed an order, “the official policy of the United States government to recognize only two genres: male and female”.
President Trump directed gender identity and diversity in executive orders. (Getty Images/AP)
Trump issued two others Executive actions aimed at Dei – An executive order to end discrimination in the workplace and higher education through race and sex preferences under the DEI costume and a note to eliminate a Biden administration policy that prioritized hiring From Dei to the federal aviation administration.
In his executive order, Trump wrote that he sought to protect the north -Americans from race, color, religion, sex or national origin. He said that these civil rights protections “serve as a bed that support equal opportunities for all Americans” and “has a solemn duty to make sure these laws apply for the benefit of all American. ”
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“Today, about 60 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Law of 1964, critical and influential institutions of North -American Society, including the federal government, major corporations, financial institutions, the medical industry, large companies. Commercial aerial, Agencies of application of the law and institutions of higher education have actively adopted and used race -based preferences and immoral race and sex under the disguise of the so -called “diversity, equity and inclusion” (Dei ) or “diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility” (said) that can violate the laws of civil rights of this nation, “says the order.
He adds that these “illegal policies DEI and said also threaten the safety of Men, Women and North -American children throughout the nation, decreasing the importance of merit, aptitude, hard work and individual determination at the time of Select people for jobs and services in key sectors of American society, including all levels of government, and medical communities, aviation and law.
Prior to Trump’s order, the FBI closed its Dei office in December.
Brioke Singman, Brie Stimson, Michael Dorgan and Landon Mion contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer of Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Tips and ideas can be sent to the story at STEPHENY.Price@fox.com
