• Economy
  • Editor’s Pick
Money Rise Today – Investing and Stock News
  • Investing
  • Stock
Editor's Pick

Defunding DEI: Here’s how the Trump administration has undone Biden’s very prized programs

by April 27, 2025
written by April 27, 2025

President Donald Trump shut down all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices across the federal government during his first week in office and signed a number of executive orders to quickly undo former President Joe Biden’s efforts. 

The president, just hours after taking the Oath of Office on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, signed an executive order to eliminate all DEI programs from the federal government. He also quickly signed an order making it ‘the official policy of the U.S. government to only recognize two genders: male and female.’ 

A day later, the president directed the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to notify heads of agencies and departments to close all DEI offices and place those government workers in those offices on paid leave. 

That move quickly forced those offices to take down all outward facing media — websites, social media accounts, and more — for those DEI offices, and required the withdrawal of any final pending documents, directives, orders, materials and equity plans. 

Trump also canceled current and impending contracts focused on DEI initiatives, with Elon Musk, who heads up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying that move saved the federal government $420 million. 

The president also issued two other executive actions that day targeting DEI. 

One was an executive order to end discrimination in the workplace and higher education through race and sex-based preferences under the guise of DEI. 

The other was a memo to eliminate a Biden administration policy that prioritized DEI hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration. 

In the memo rolling back Biden’s DEI hiring practices at the FAA, Trump ordered the secretary of transportation and FAA administrator to immediately stop Biden’s DEI hiring programs and return to nondiscriminatory, merit-based hiring.

Trump also required that the FAA administrator review the past performance and performance standards of all agency employees in critical safety positions and make it clear that anyone who fails to demonstrate adequate capability is replaced by someone who will ensure flight safety and efficiency.

‘Illegal and discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring, including on the basis of race, sex, disability, or any other criteria other than the safety of airline passengers and overall job excellence, competency, and qualification, harms all Americans, who deserve to fly with confidence,’ the memo read.

The memo stated: ‘All so-called DEI initiatives, including all dangerous preferencing policies or practices, shall immediately be rescinded in favor of hiring, promoting, and otherwise treating employees on the basis of individual capability, competence, achievement, and dedication.’

Trump also rescinded Biden’s order on diversity initiatives, ‘Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,’ which he signed on his first day in office in 2021. 

In February, the Department of Education also warned state education departments that they must remove DEI policies or risk losing federal funding.

That move came after Trump signed executive orders directing agencies to provide a plan to eliminate federal funding for ‘illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology.’

 

The president’s efforts to end DEI across the federal government also prompted the cancellation of such programs across the private sector. 

Meta, in January, canceled its DEI programs, as did McDonald’s. And after the 2024 election, Walmart, Ford Motor Co., John Deere, Lowe’s and Toyota also ended DEI programs. 

As recently as April, according to Forbes, IBM, Gannett, and Constellation Brands Inc., made changes to DEI policies. Earlier this year, UnitedHealth Group, MLB, Victoria’s Secret, Warner Bros. Discovery, Goldman Sachs, Paramount, Bank of America, BlackRock, Citigroup, Pepsi, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, PBS, Google, Disney, GE, PayPal, Chipotle and more scaled back or canceled their DEI programs. 

Meanwhile, in March, the National Institutes of Health rescinded the agency’s ‘Scientific Integrity Policy’ implemented during the last few weeks of Biden’s term, to peel back any DEI requirements. 

That Biden-era policy said that DEI was an ‘integral’ part of ‘the entire scientific process,’ and pushed NIH’s chief scientist and top scientific integrity official to ‘promote agency efforts regarding diversity, equity and inclusion.’ It also instituted agency-wide policy directives ordering supervisors at the NIH to ‘support’ scientists and researchers who are ‘asexual’ or ‘intersex,’ while imploring NIH leadership to ‘confer with relevant offices’ when additional DEI expertise is needed.  

‘The Biden administration weaponized NIH’s scientific integrity policy to inject harmful DEI and gender ideology into research,’ said Health and Human Services Department spokesperson, Andrew Nixon. ‘Rescinding this (scientific integrity) policy will allow NIH to restore science to its golden standard and protect the integrity of science.’      

The Biden administration also funded grants related to DEI, such as one for roughly $165,000 that was focused on ‘queering the curriculum’ for family medicine doctors to guide them in their treatment of transgender patients. Those grants have been canceled. 

And earlier this week, multiple federal agencies told Fox News Digital that they have dropped millions of dollars in contracts for LinkedIn services over the business social network’s embrace of DEI. 

The Departments of Treasury, Interior and Veterans Affairs dropped LinkedIn — a move to comply with the president’s executive orders banning federal agencies from contracting with companies that embrace DEI policies. 

‘Every American taxpayer should be angry that the Biden administration wasted so much money on contracts like these,’ an Interior Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital. ‘Under the leadership of President Trump, we have been combing through hundreds of thousands of contracts here at the Department alone and are canceling wasteful, woke, and downright ridiculous contracts that do not align with the will of the American people.’ 

A LinkedIn spokesperson told Fox News Digital, in response, that: ‘Like every business, the organizations that use our products change, often driven by shifts in their budgets and priorities. We’re keeping our focus on helping our customers achieve the objectives they’ve set.’ 

Fox News Digital’s David Spector and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report. 

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS
0 comment
0
FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail

previous post
Trump delivers different message on Gaza when recapping call with Netanyahu
next post
Trump kicks off whirlwind week marking his 100th day back in the Oval Office

related articles

Iran still wants a nuclear weapon despite ‘serious...

July 6, 2025

Democrats project doom and gloom, not celebration, with...

July 5, 2025

Xi Jinping’s surprise no-show at BRICS Summit fuels...

July 5, 2025

Iran regime escalates repression toward ‘North Korea-style model...

July 4, 2025

This July 4th, a family waits: American hostage’s...

July 4, 2025

President Trump to honor Iran strike flight team...

July 4, 2025

North Korea lashes out after Trump DOJ exposes...

July 4, 2025

Saudi defense minister secretly meets with Trump to...

July 4, 2025

Trump administration swarms SCOTUS with emergency requests and...

July 4, 2025

Trump administration torpedoes SCOTUS with emergency requests and...

July 3, 2025
Enter Your Information Below To Receive Free Trading Ideas, Latest News, And Articles.


Your information is secure and your privacy is protected. By opting in you agree to receive emails from us. Remember that you can opt-out any time, we hate spam too!

Latest News

  • Trump, Harris trade barbs on crime during first presidential debate: ‘Through the roof’

    September 11, 2024
  • Pennsylvania man charged with threatening Trump, ICE agents, other officials

    April 11, 2025
  • ‘Important lesson’: Conservative activist reveals ‘fascinating’ experience at liberal Sundance Film Festival

    January 31, 2025
  • Tesla stock jumps 3.4% in premarket trading as analyst sees over 45% upside

    March 3, 2025
  • Canadian politician claims Trump admin’s ’51st state’ rhetoric is an ‘act of war’

    March 21, 2025

Popular Posts

  • 1

    Secret Service admits leaning on ‘state and local partners’ after claim it ignored Trump team’s past requests

    July 21, 2024
  • 2

    Elon and Vivek should tackle US funding for this boondoogle organization and score a multimillion dollar win

    December 4, 2024
  • 3

    Five more House Democrats call on Biden to drop out, third US senator

    July 19, 2024
  • 4

    Forex Profit Calculator: Maximize Your Trading Potential

    July 10, 2024
  • 5

    Biden calls to ‘lower the temperature’ then bashes Trump in NAACP speech

    July 17, 2024

Categories

  • Economy (829)
  • Editor's Pick (5,252)
  • Investing (634)
  • Stock (832)

Latest Posts

  • S&P 500, Nasdaq slip as NVIDIA underperforms; Tesla shares and crypto stocks jump

    March 3, 2025
  • Biden set to tighten Nvidia AI chip exports to maintain US AI dominance

    January 9, 2025
  • Paramount merger sparks concern among movie theater owners

    July 10, 2024

Recent Posts

  • Capital One outage drags into Friday afternoon, leaving some customers without deposit access

    January 18, 2025
  • Third round of hostage releases begins as part of Hamas’ Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israel

    January 30, 2025
  • House Ethics Committee to meet with vote on releasing Gaetz report looming

    December 5, 2024

Editor’s Pick

  • Waltz says Ukraine should ‘tone down’ criticism of Trump

    February 20, 2025
  • Arab Americans sour on Democrats amid war in Middle East: Activist says Trump outreach has been ‘surreal’

    October 20, 2024
  • Hezbollah drone attack in Israel kills multiple IDF soldiers, wounds dozens of people: reports

    October 13, 2024
  • About us
  • Contacts
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions

Disclaimer: moneyrisetoday.com, its managers, its employees, and assigns (collectively “The Company”) do not make any guarantee or warranty about what is advertised above. Information provided by this website is for research purposes only and should not be considered as personalized financial advice. The Company is not affiliated with, nor does it receive compensation from, any specific security. The Company is not registered or licensed by any governing body in any jurisdiction to give investing advice or provide investment recommendation. Any investments recommended here should be taken into consideration only after consulting with your investment advisor and after reviewing the prospectus or financial statements of the company.

Copyright © 2025 moneyrisetoday.com | All Rights Reserved

Money Rise Today – Investing and Stock News
  • Economy
  • Editor’s Pick
Money Rise Today – Investing and Stock News
  • Investing
  • Stock