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PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS

ENDING RADICAL AND

WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT
DEI PROGRAMS
AND PREFERENCING
EXECUTIVE ORDER

January 20, 2025

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The Biden Administration forced illegal and immoral
discrimination programs, going by the name “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI),
into virtually all aspects of the Federal Government, in areas ranging from airline
safety to the military. This was a concerted effort stemming from President Biden’s
first day in office, when he issued Executive Order 13985, “Advancing Racial Equity
and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”
Pursuant to Executive Order 13985 and follow-on orders, nearly every Federal
agency and entity submitted “Equity Action Plans” to detail the ways that they have
furthered DEIs infiltration of the Federal Government. The public release of these
plans demonstrated immense public waste and shameful discrimination. That ends
today. Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with
equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on
making America great.
Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management (OPM), shall coordinate the termination of all discriminatory
programs, including illegal DEI and “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility”
(DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal
Government, under whatever name they appear. To carry out this directive, the
Director of OPM, with the assistance of the Attorney General as requested, shall
review and revise, as appropriate, all existing Federal employment practices, union
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contracts, and training policies or programs to comply with this order. Federal
employment practices, including Federal employee performance reviews, shall
reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and shall not
under any circumstances consider DEI or DEIA factors, goals, policies, mandates,
or requirements.
(b) Each agency, department, or commission head, in consultation with the
Attorney General, the Director of OMB, and the Director of OPM, as appropriate,
shall take the following actions within sixty days of this order:
(i) terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and
“environmental justice” offices and positions (including but not limited to “Chief
Diversity Officer” positions); all “equity action plans,” “equity” actions, initiatives, or
programs, “equity-related” grants or contracts; and all DEI or DEIA performance
requirements for employees, contractors, or grantees.
(ii) provide the Director of the OMB with a list of all:
(A) agency or department DEI, DEIA, or “environmental justice” positions,
committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and expenditures in existence
on November 4, 2024, and an assessment of whether these positions, committees,
programs, services, activities, budgets, and expenditures have been misleadingly
relabeled in an attempt to preserve their pre-November 4, 2024 function;
(B) Federal contractors who have provided DEI training or DEI training materials to
agency or department employees; and
(C) Federal grantees who received Federal funding to provide or advance DEI, DEIA,
or “environmental justice” programs, services, or activities since January 20, 2021.
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(iii) direct the deputy agency or department head to:

(A) assess the operational impact (e.g., the number of new DEI hires) and cost of
the prior administration’s DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” programs and
policies; and
(B) recommend actions, such as Congressional notifications under 28 U.S.C. 530D,
to align agency or department programs, activities, policies, regulations, guidance,
employment practices, enforcement activities, contracts (including set-asides),
grants, consent orders, and litigating positions with the policy of equal dignity and
respect identified in section 1 of this order. The agency or department head and the
Director of OMB shall jointly ensure that the deputy agency or department head has
the authority and resources needed to carry out this directive.
(c) To inform and advise the President, so that he may formulate appropriate and
effective civil-rights policies for the Executive Branch, the Assistant to the President
for Domestic Policy shall convene a monthly meeting attended by the Director of
OMB, the Director of OPM, and each deputy agency or department head to:
(i) hear reports on the prevalence and the economic and social costs of DEI, DEIA,
and “environmental justice” in agency or department programs, activities, policies,
regulations, guidance, employment practices, enforcement activities, contracts
(including set-asides), grants, consent orders, and litigating positions;
(ii) discuss any barriers to measures to comply with this order; and
(iii) monitor and track agency and department progress and identify potential areas
for additional Presidential or legislative action to advance the policy of equal dignity
and respect.
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Sec. 3. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision
to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and
the application of its provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not
be affected.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or
otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head
thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating
to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to
the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the
United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 20, 2025.

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