In the first hours of his new presidency, Donald Trump signed executive orders to put an end to so-called “diversity equity and inclusion” (DEI) policies. Within a couple of days, he ordered all federal employees assigned to that task furloughed with pay until the agencies could get around to terminating the positions properly.
However, it became immediately clear that the agencies had started a surreptitious “Resistance” effort to reassign those employees instead under new classifications — while pursuing the same DEI mission. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Trump has declared war on the bureaucratic “Resistance,” this time ordering agencies to dig deeper to identify such employees and lower the boom:
Trump administration officials are pressing federal agencies to dig deeper to find diversity workers to push out of the government, according to…
