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Civil Rights and Federal Equity Programs

7 documents · busiest Jan 2025

Diversity initiatives, discrimination rules, and equal opportunity enforcement; excludes immigration enforcement or national security decisions.

Busiest month was Jan 2025, with 3 documents. Click any month to see what was signed then.

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Jan 29, 2025 · executive orderAdditional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism
higher education
Jan 21, 2025 · executive orderEnding Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
higher educationprivate sector
Jan 20, 2025 · executive orderEnding Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing

Executive Order EO 14173

Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity

SignedDonald Trump · Jan 21, 2025

Trump signed an executive order on January 21, 2025 revoking four prior orders and directing federal agencies to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Does not fund enforcement efforts or create new legal authority; agencies must act within existing budgets and law. Does not apply to veteran hiring preferences or the Randolph-Sheppard Act protections for people who are blind or have severe disabilities.

What it does (12)

Policy
- Directs all federal agencies to terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, policies, and guidance
- Orders agencies to enforce civil-rights laws against private-sector diversity programs
Terminating Illegal Discrimination in the Federal Government
- Revokes EO 12898 on environmental justice in minority and low-income communities
- Revokes EO 13583 on federal workforce diversity initiative
- Revokes EO 13672 amending federal equal employment opportunity rules
- Revokes 2016 Presidential Memorandum on diversity in national security workforce
- Revokes EO 11246 on federal contractor equal employment (90-day transition period)
- Halts Labor Department Office of Federal Contract Compliance from promoting diversity or affirmative action
- Requires federal contractors to certify they do not operate illegal DEI programs
Encouraging the Private Sector to End Illegal DEI Discrimination and Preferences
- Attorney General must report within 120 days on private-sector DEI enforcement strategy
- Directs identification of up to nine potential civil compliance investigations per agency in targeted sectors
Other Actions
- Attorney General and Education Secretary must issue college admissions guidance within 120 days based on Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action

Read it on the Federal Register