Trump doesn't only want to end DEI. He's also voiding a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule.
Source: CBS News
Updated on: January 25, 2025 / 4:20 PM EST
Among the flurry of executive orders since his Jan. 20 inauguration, President Donald Trump has taken aim at rooting out diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs within the federal government. But his efforts go beyond DEI, with one recent order rescinding a Civil Rights-era rule that has helped protect millions of workers from discrimination.
Mr. Trump's Jan. 21 order — "Ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity" — revokes the Equal Employment Opportunity rule signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which is still law today — had a loophole that excluded federal employees. Johnson signed the Equal Employment Opportunity rule to close the loophole, and those protections were signed into law in 1972.
That rule bars federal contractors, who today employ 3.7 million people, from discriminating against job applicants or workers on the basis of race, gender, religion and other protected characteristics. It also gave the Labor Department the authority to take action against discrimination. Mr. Trump's order does not invalidate the law, and private and federal employees are still protected from discrimination as laid out under the Civil Rights Act. But his order does strike down the 1965 rule prohibiting contractors that do business with the government from taking race, gender and the other protected criteria into account.
More broadly, revoking the 60-year-old Equal Employment Opportunity order eliminates a bedrock of civil rights protection for American workers, signaling an effort to target workplace issues that go beyond DEI, labor experts say. While DEI is shorthand for programs that encourage equality in the workplace for women, minorities and other groups, the Equal Employment Opportunity rule prohibited federal contractors from engaging in acts of discrimination, such as refusing to hire someone due to their race or paying an employee less because of their gender.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-equal-employment-opportunity-revoke-1965-dei-what-it-means/
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Lyndon B. Johnson (with an update from the bald one)
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man everyone else, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
Even if he had the power to do that, it would never make him qualified to be President.
Obama, Hillary and Kamala are better than Chump in every way imaginable.
