Trump Admin Directs Federal Agencies to Start Firing DEI Staff – EVOL

The Trump administration is accelerating its moves to dismantle DEI efforts by directing agencies to begin terminating DEI positions and staff.

The Trump administration has accelerated its push to purge the federal government of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), with a new memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directing all agencies to start firing DEI staff immediately.

The memo, released on Jan. 24 by OPM acting director Charles Ezell, provides new guidance to heads of federal agencies regarding President Donald Trump’s executive order on ending government DEI programs, which the president has deemed “radical and wasteful.”

“In accordance with that order, each agency, department, or commission head shall take action to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions within sixty days,” Ezell wrote in the memo.

Further, the memo states that agencies “can and should” start sending reduction-in-force (RIF) notices to employees in DEI offices immediately. RIF notices are formal notifications issued to employees whose positions are being eliminated, specifying factors such as effective date, reasons for termination, or any rights or benefits they may have such as severance pay.

Ezell’s memo represents an acceleration of efforts to terminate DEI

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