The Trump administration asked the American federal agencies on Friday to close all of their offices responsible for promoting diversity and environmental justice and to fire the officials who work there – already placed in forced leave – within two months.
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This large -scale dismissal of federal employees responsible for fighting discrimination within the state apparatus intervenes on the fifth day of the second term of Donald Trump, who in the same day took a series of anti -abortion measures.
All branches of the American federal state “must take measures to put an end, to the extent permitted by law, at offices and jobs” responsible for promoting diversity and environmental justice “within 60 days”, notes a Note from the ministry responsible for civil servants published on Friday.
This is one more step, after the decision on Wednesday to place in forced leave all employees working within the federal administration in Deia programs (diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility).
From now on, federal agencies “can and must” begin “now” the process of dismissal of these officials.
-The term “Dei” or “Deia”, which in the vocabulary of human resources means the recruitment efforts of people from racial or sexual minorities, has become one of the scarecrows of the American hard right.
During the campaign, the Trumpists attacked the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, black woman and Indian origin, saying that the former vice-president was a “recruitment ofi”, that is to say, in the implied that ‘She had only been chosen for her identity and not for her qualities.
In addition to the Dei programs, the instructions on Friday now include environmental justice.
This expression corresponding “to the right treatment and the real involvement of all, whatever his income, his race, his skin color, his nationality, his tribal affiliation or his handicap” in decision -making within the federal government “From what relates to health and the environment”, according to a definition of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, which has so far – of a dedicated branch.
From the first day in power on Monday, Donald Trump also promised to sweep policies in favor of transgender people, saying that the United States would only recognize “two sexes, male and female”.
The 47th President of the United States has confirmed, as hammered throughout its campaign, its desire to attack that part of the American conservatives consider excess of diversity and inclusion programs of minorities .
