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 objectives in its mission: Minimize authorities spending, scale back purple tape and paperwork, and abolish unhelpful and even detrimental applications.
Living proof: the Chief Variety Officers Government Council within the Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM).
First it was there. Now, it’s gone.
Sadly the positioning remains to be lively, however that’s as a result of the feds have 60 days to get Trump’s order achieved.
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The OPM is the company that handles human assets, payroll, and the like for the over two million federal workers.
What’s the Chief Variety Officers Government Council on the OPM? I’m glad you requested.
They describe their mission as “the principal interagency discussion board to implement and maintain a nationwide technique for DEIA throughout the Federal authorities and place the Federal authorities as a mannequin 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 businesses and their senior leaders on promising practices in DEIA and promote these practices as vital to company strategic plans, missions, and operations; coordinate actions of its member businesses on government-wide coverage implementation and partnerships; help with setting clear methods, benchmarks, and metrics for DEIA requirements of excellence and accountability throughout the Federal authorities; and promote an inclusive office tradition for all Federal workers.”
In brief, like most if not all DEI applications, this one was meant to extend the variety of “minority” teams within the OPM. Within the considering of the left, growing the variety of minority people and lowering 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 might be slightly impolitic, even by the left’s requirements, to obviously clarify their reasoning.
Regardless, we gained’t have to fret about it for no less than 4 years. As a result of like all different federal company DEI applications, 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 Applications And Preferencing, ends “unlawful and immoral” discrimination applications like DEI. The Price range Director, OPM Director, and Lawyer Common are ordered to finish the applications and all associated “actions” within the federal authorities inside 60 days.
As a part of this effort, the Price range Director is gathering a document of all such applications that existed below the Biden administration, which ought to make for very attention-grabbing studying.
DOGE chief Musk has lengthy railed in opposition to such applications, one thing President Trump agrees with.
It’s simply Day Two people. We’re off and working.
