Trumps latest blow to DEI: Government workers ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures by 5 p.m. Friday
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In a push to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the government, the Trump administration ordered federal employees at multiple agencies to remove gender pronouns from their email signatures by 5:00 p.m. ET on Friday, according to internal memos obtained byABC News.Those agencies include, but are not limited to, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Transportation (DOT), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and Department of Energy (DOE), according to ABC.The memos are said to reference two executive ordersPresident Donald Trump signed on day one of his second term, seeking to gut DEI at government agencies and in its programs.Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, Jason Bonander, the CDCs chief information officer reportedly wrote. Staff are being asked to alter signature blocks . . . to follow the revised policy.On Thursday, employees at the Department of Energy and Department of Transportation received similar orders, the latter while they were scrambling to respond to Wednesdays deadly crash of an American Airlines jet, which collided with a Navy Black Hawk helicopter in D.C., plunging into the Potomac river near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and killing all 67 people aboard. (Trump has lashed out against FAA workers, falsely blaming the crash on DEI.)DOE employees were told the pronoun changes were required by the executive order which requires [DEI] language in Federal discourse, communications and publications be removed.These directives come a week after Trump ordered all federal DEI staff to be put on leave, calling diversity and inclusion programs discrimination.
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