Seattle Children’s Hospital renamed its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to circumvent President Donald Trump’s directives, a whistleblower tells The Daily Signal.
On Day One of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order to terminate “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) discrimination in the federal workforce and in federal contracting and spending.”
For Seattle Children’s Hospital to continue receiving hundreds of millions in federal funding for research, grants, and more, it was required to end to its DEI-focused programs.
But some of the slashes to DEI were in name only, according to a current employee, who asked to remain anonymous for job security. The hospital scrubbed some mentions of DEI from its website and changed the titles of DEI-personnel, but many of the programs remain.
The CEO of the children’s hospital, Dr. Jeff…
