President Donald Trump is rapidly changing the left-wing culture that has been allowed to permeate the federal government.
Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove their preferred pronouns from their email signatures, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.
“Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures by 5.p.m. ET on Friday,” an email to employees at the Centers For Disease Control said.
“Employees were instructed to remove pronouns from everything from government grant applications to email signatures across the department, sources told ABC News,” according to the outlet.
“Employees at the Department of Energy who received a similar notice Thursday were told this was to meet requirements in Trump’s executive order calling for the removal of DEI ‘language in Federal discourse, communications and publications,’” it added.
Trump’s executive order terminating all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs has already impacted 395 government employees, according to a senior administration official who spoke to Fox News on Saturday. It’s believed that the directive to remove pronouns from email signatures is linked to that order.
In addition, the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, announced on X on Friday that approximately $420 million in current and impending contracts—primarily focused on DEI initiatives—had been canceled, Fox News reported.
Following Trump’s signing of the order on Inauguration Day, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) instructed agency and department heads to begin shutting down all DEI offices by the close of business Wednesday. Employees in those offices were placed on paid leave, though it remains unclear when or if they will face termination.
Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management Charles Ezell issued a memo to department and agency heads on Tuesday evening, outlining strict directives for the termination of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The memo required that by the close of business on January 22, agencies must inform all employees about the DEI shutdown.
Additionally, employees directly involved in DEI were to be placed on paid leave immediately, all DEI-related websites and social media accounts were to be taken down, related contracts or training canceled, and employees were instructed to report any attempts to disguise DEI programs through coded or vague language.
By noon on January 23, agency and department heads were required to provide OPM with detailed lists of all DEI offices, employees, and contracts active as of November 5, 2024.
Furthermore, by 5 p.m. on January 24, agency heads were mandated to submit to OPM a written plan for executing reduction-in-force actions targeting DEI employees, along with a comprehensive list of any contract descriptions or personnel position descriptions altered since November 5, 2024, to try and hide their connection to DEI programs, Fox noted further.
The executive order was one of many signed by Trump on his first day in office. It included government recognition of only two genders and the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.
On Tuesday, he issued two additional executive actions targeting DEI initiatives. One executive order aimed to end workplace and higher education discrimination by prohibiting race- and sex-based preferences implemented under the guise of DEI.
The other was a memo rescinding a Biden-era policy that prioritized DEI-focused hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration.
Trump’s Monday executive order rescinded President Joe Biden’s promotion of diversity initiatives, “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” which he signed on his first day in office, noted Fox.
Trump is moving at a breakneck pace to implement his agenda, observers noted as he nears the end of his first week in office.
Besides issuing dozens of executive orders, the president surveyed disaster-stricken areas in North Carolina and California, and supported his Cabinet nominees through contentious Senate confirmation battles.
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