Trump Merit Based Hiring And Rewards In Government, Ends DEI, Makes State Dept Employees Come To Work

Did anyone think the hits would be coming this hard, this many, and this quick? It might have been better had the Democrats just let Trump have his 2nd term back to back, because he and his people had plenty of time to get this ready

Trump Ends 1965 Executive Order from Lyndon Johnson that Began Affirmative Action in U.S. Govt

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday rescinding President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, which mandated government contractors take affirmative action.

The order more broadly ceases diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) “discrimination in the federal workforce, and in federal contracting and spending,” the White House noted.

The federal government’s hiring practices will now be merit-based, with employees being rewarded for “individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work.”

Would he have done this if he had back to back terms? Most likely not. It really wasn’t on the radar. Now you have Godzilla in the china shop

Millions of federal DEI employees placed on leave as Trump’s administration dismantles programs

One of President Trump’s first executive orders targets millions of federal employees working on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives.

“Our country is going to be based on merit again,” said President Trump.

A memo from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management ordered leaders to place all staff working in DEI roles on paid leave by 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

In President Trump’s order, he says that DEI policies violate Federal civil rights laws and “undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.”

For the most part, these are people who really do not do anything to help American citizens nor the mission of the agency. Would Trump have gotten to this in a back to back 2nd term? BTW, the rumor is that they were all fired, but, no, most reports show they were put on paid leave, and we’ll have to see what happens with them now.

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UPDATE: a source at State Department tells me the federal workers there are totally melting down after @secrubio ordered an end to remote work and ordered all employees back to work in person https://t.co/Zv9UsTcyuL

— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) January 22, 2025

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