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WASHINGTON, DC—The White House Office of Personnel Management has notified agency and department heads that they must begin taking steps to close all Diversity, equity and inclusion offices until the end of the day on Wednesday and to place government employees in those offices on paid leave, Fox News Digital has learned.
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Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Charles Ezell sent a memo to the heads and acting heads of departments and agencies on Tuesday evening instructing them that, by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 22, at the latest:
- Send an agency-wide notice to employees informing them of the shutdown and asking employees if they know of any attempts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.
- Send notice to all DEIA office employees that they have been placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately after the agency takes steps to close/terminate all DEIA initiatives, offices and programs.
- Remove all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) of the DEIA office.
- Withdraw all final or pending documents, directives, orders, materials, and capital plans issued by the agency in response to the now revoked Executive Order 14035, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal Workforce (25 . June 2021).
- Cancel all DEIA related training and fire all DEIA related contractors.
The memo also directed agency and department heads to share with OPM by 12:00 p.m. Thursday:
- a complete list of DEIA offices and all employees who are in those offices as of November 5, 2024.
- a full list of all DEIA-related agency contracts as of November 5, 2024.
- any agency plans to fully comply with the above executive orders and this memorandum.
By Friday at 5 p.m., agency heads must submit to OPM:
- a written plan for the implementation of the reduction action in force in relation to the employees working in the DEIA office.
- a list of all contract descriptions or staff job descriptions that have been changed since November 5, 2024 to disguise their association with DEIA programs.
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The memo comes after President Trump signed an executive order removing all DEI programs from the federal government.
The president also signed an order stating that “the official policy of the United States government recognizes only two genders: male and female.”
