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handle is hein.crs/govesgx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Coangressional ____ Research Service Recent Executive Actions on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) January 29, 2025 Background President Donald Trump issued executive order (E.O.) 14151 titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing on January 20, 2025. This E.O. seeks to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs-which are sometimes referred to as diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs-throughout the federal government. On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an additional E.O. titled Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, which, among other things, revokes numerous DEI-related executive orders issued by previous Administrations. These developments represent a change in course from the Biden Administration's DEI-related actions. For instance, President Joe Biden issued E.O. 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, on January 20, 2021 which directed federal agencies to pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity. Later, on June 25, 2021, President Biden issued E.O. 14035 titled Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce, which mandated that the federal government remove barriers to equal opportunity to enhance its ability to recruit, hire, develop, promote, and retain talented individuals and to act as a model employer for DEIA. This E.O. required the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to create a Government-Wide DEIA Plan, directed executive branch agencies to create their own DEIA strategic plans, encouraged agencies to establish chief diversity officers or equivalent, and tasked executive branch agencies with additional DEIA-related responsibilities such as data collection and reporting requirements. Contents of the Executive Orders E.O. 14151 states that the Biden Administration forced illegal and immoral discrimination programs, going by the name 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' (DEI), into virtually all aspects of the Federal Government in areas ranging from airline safety to the military. Further, it states that executive agencies' issuance of Equity Action Plans pursuant to E.O. 13985 and other Biden Administration initiatives demonstrated immense public waste and shameful discrimination. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN12497 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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