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It’s possible that I will reach out to them and find out that they’ve all been terminated,
What is happening is that you’re focusing on structural organizational problems, which often impacts minority groups or underrepresented groups more than majority groups,
Does it mean closing the office but giving them a different position?”
To the people who oppose us, the ones who attack DEI, they have tried to bastardize that acronym,
Virginia Kase Solomón, president and CEO of Common Cause, said Wednesday during a call-to-action panel after Trump’s anti-DEI executive order I think by getting rid of this and doing it in such a bold way on day one, what he is doing is giving a green light to people who are racist, to people who are homophobic. To people who are anti-women and think they should be in the kitchen and telling them there is no consequence to your racism,
I think it’s a war on people of color, and what we are going to see is a lot of pain, but especially to those communities that need those jobs,
They are finding out, you know, who might be doing – I mean, they’ve been asking people in the different federal departments to basically snitch on each other. You know, who is a liberal? Who is Biden supporter? Who is into equity? And they have been purging those people, which they told us they were going to do,
The stats show that they're very effective,
The FAA's most important priorities are the advancement of aviation safety and the prevention of air disasters,
I hereby order the Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administrator to immediately return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring, as required by law,
the president said in his Tuesday directive Illegal and discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring, including on the basis of race, sex, disability, or any other criteria other than the safety of airline passengers and overall job excellence, competency, and qualification, harms all Americans, who deserve to fly with confidence,
Trump's order, titled "Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation," reads Politics has no place in aviation safety because there is no margin for error when lives are at stake,
attorney Erin Applebaum told Newsweek The FAA employs tens of thousands of people for a wide range of positions, from administrative roles to oversight and execution of critical safety functions. Like many large employers, the agency proactively seeks qualified candidates from as many sources as possible, all of whom must meet rigorous qualifications that of course will vary by position."
The FAA told Fox News Digital in January 2024 There's no such thing as going too far as it relates to equity. This is America. Equity is the right thing to do. There's no such thing as diversity being bad. America is a very diverse place. I think Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has been weaponized for some to use to say it's taken away from others,
Listen, the unfortunate part of this conversation of stripping DEI--Americans are witnessing the Alabama-fication of federal government,
Undoing these programs is just another way for President Trump to undermine the merit-based civil service and turn federal hiring and firing decisions into loyalty tests,
a press release published on Tuesday by federal worker union AFGE stated DEI is just another word for racism. Shame on anyone who uses it.”
On January 3, 2024, tech billionaire Elon Musk, whom Trump has picked to lead his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), posted on X Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked,
Trump’s executive order on DEI programmes says Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,
Later on Monday, Trump signed a second anti-DEI EO Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity."
The following day, Trump signed a third EO
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