Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
Headline: Agencies Ordered to End Race- and Sex-Based Diversity Practices
What it does: Agencies must end race- and sex-based preference programs, enforce civil-rights laws, and encourage private-sector compliance.
- Removes federal diversity requirements for hiring and contracting, changing contractor obligations.
- Allows agencies to stop enforcing affirmative-action and workforce balancing by race or sex.
- Directs reports and possible investigations of large corporations, nonprofits, and universities.
Summary
This order requires all federal agencies to end discriminatory race- and sex-based preferences and to stop policies labeled diversity, equity, and inclusion that the order says violate Federal civil-rights laws. It revokes several prior executive actions, changes federal contracting and grant terms, and directs the Labor office that enforces contractor rules to cease promoting diversity or affirmative-action requirements. The Attorney General and agencies must produce reports recommending enforcement steps, identify possible investigations of large companies and universities, and issue guidance for federally funded schools.
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