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Donald Trump suspends federal employees from diversity programs in the United States – Libération

After the withdrawal of the United States from the agreement and the WHO, the pardon of the insurgents of the attack on the Capitol and a drug lord, the state of emergency at the Mexican border, a new deleterious decision in Trumpland. Tuesday evening, the new American president decided to suspend federal employees from diversity programs. Officials working in DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) programs, which Donald Trump ordered closed, will be suspended by Wednesday evening, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed on the social network . They will be “placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately.” L’administration “takes action to close and terminate all DEI initiatives, offices and programs,” continues the spokesperson's message, published Tuesday evening. The memo sent to the various state departments and federal agencies by the Trump administration also instructs them to prepare staff reductions by January 31.

This decision is the consequence of one of the 46 decrees taken Monday by Donald Trump after his inauguration. In the one devoted to DEI programs, Donald Trump castigates what he considers to be a “waste [d’argent] public and shameful discrimination. Since the 1960s, the American federal government had implemented certain recruitment rules in its administrations to encourage the hiring of minorities. During his mandate Joe Biden had promoted this issue.

Invested Monday for the second time as President of the United States, Donald Trump also issued decrees targeting illegal immigration and denying the existence of transgender people. Furthermore, Trump has called for the dismissal of more than a thousand officials from the former Democratic administration to avenge the “treason” which, according to him, constituted the election in 2020 to the White House of Joe Biden. People “which are not aligned with our vision to make America great again,” he said on Truth Social.

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