DOGE – President Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity – is off to a red-hot begin.
The pseudo-department (it’s not an actual authorities company… but) led by Elon Musk has a number of targets in its mission: Lower authorities spending, scale back crimson tape and paperwork, and abolish unhelpful and even detrimental packages.
Working example: the Chief Variety Officers Government Council within the Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM).
First it was there. Now, it’s gone.
Sadly the location continues to be energetic, however that’s as a result of the feds have 60 days to get Trump’s order finished.
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The OPM is the company that handles human assets, payroll, and the like for the over two million federal staff.
What’s the Chief Variety Officers Government Council on the OPM? I’m glad you requested.
They describe their mission as “the principal interagency forum to implement and sustain a national strategy for DEIA across the Federal government and position the Federal government as a model for the DEIA.”
What does that imply? First, the DEI acronym was expanded to incorporate “accessibility.” As in, Variety, Fairness, Inclusion, and Accessibility.
As for what they do, right here’s the official description: “The Council will advise agencies and their senior leaders on promising practices in DEIA and promote those practices as important to agency strategic plans, missions, and operations; coordinate activities of its member agencies on government-wide policy implementation and partnerships; assist with setting clear strategies, benchmarks, and metrics for DEIA standards of excellence and accountability across the Federal government; and promote an inclusive workplace culture for all Federal employees.”
In brief, like most if not all DEI packages, this one was meant to extend the variety of “minority” teams within the OPM. Within the pondering of the left, rising the variety of minority people and reducing the variety of majority – in our case right here in America, white – people is taken into account a de facto public good. Why that’s the case is rarely clearly defined, however one will get the sense that it could be quite impolitic, even by the left’s requirements, to obviously clarify their reasoning.
Regardless, we gained’t have to fret about it for not less than 4 years. As a result of like all different federal company DEI packages, it’s gone.
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Trump Cuts DEI
As a part of his marathon run at fixing as a lot of Biden’s errors as doable on the primary day, President Trump rescinded Government Order 13985.
President Trump’s order, Ending Radical And Wasteful Authorities DEI Packages And Preferencing, ends “illegal and immoral” discrimination packages like DEI. The Price range Director, OPM Director, and Legal professional Normal are ordered to finish the packages and all associated “activities” within the federal authorities inside 60 days.
As a part of this effort, the Price range Director is accumulating a document of all such packages that existed below the Biden administration, which ought to make for very fascinating studying.
DOGE chief Musk has lengthy railed towards such packages, one thing President Trump agrees with.
It’s simply Day Two people. We’re off and operating.
