Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
President Donald Trump signed it on January 21, 2025. Published in the Federal Register on January 31, 2025, 90 FR 8633.
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“All documents and discussions as well as the methodology utilized to select the employees placed on administrative leave after January 20, 2025, due to the Executive Orders 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferences” and 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” Please additionally include all selected employees’ GS scale, title, age, race, sex, and the”
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Rep. Ogles Urges Investigation Into Belmont University DEI Deception
“Washington, DC— Congressman Andy Ogles (TN-05) sent a formal letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon demanding an immediate compliance review of Belmont University for its alleged rebranding of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in defiance of federal law and Executive Order 14173, “Combating Radical Ideologies in Higher Education.”
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“This E.O. is inapplicable to this funding or the work of election officials and any application of Executive Order 14173 to EAC election security grant funding would represent an unprecedented encroachment by President Trump into this independent agency and would undermine the important role of the Commission to act on a bipartisan basis. Congress provided these election security funds to”
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President Pinto shares message regarding future of DEI at UC
“If you haven’t already, please take the time to read President Trump’s Executive Order 14173 from January 21 as well as the February 14 “Dear Colleague” letter from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR), which calls for the elimination of DEI in higher education.”
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Orders this one revokes or amends
- Revokes Executive Order 11246
- Revokes Executive Order 12898
- Revokes Executive Order 13583, Establishing a Coordinated Government-Wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal WorkforceSigned
- Revokes Executive Order 13672, Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment OpportunitySigned
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- Revokes: EO 11246, September 24, 1965; EO 12898, February 11, 1994; EO 13583, August 18, 2011; EO 13672, July 21, 2014; Memo. of October 5, 2016