New Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced Ending all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at the FCC.
Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump issued an executive order against DEI practices in government on Monday, and a day later, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr issued a statement announcing the end of DEI at the FCC.
“President Trump's leadership on this issue will yield great results for the American people.”
“Encouraging insidious forms of discrimination violates the Communications Act and deprives Americans of their right to fair and equal treatment under the law. It is also a wasteful expenditure of taxpayer resources. equivalent to.'' statement From Tuesday's car. “Nevertheless, the FCC collaborated with other private and public sector agencies to advance discriminatory DEI policies during the Biden administration.”
Specifically, Carr said DEI will be removed from the commission's strategic plan priorities after the Biden administration placed DEI as the second priority in the commission's strategic plan. .
He said he would end the FCC's DEI advisory group and eliminate all references to DEI in the commission's budget. DEI will be removed from economic plans as well as FCC performance reports.
“President Trump's leadership on this matter will yield significant results for the American people as each agency acts in accordance with the executive order,” Kerr said.
After the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots over the death of George Floyd, DEI policies and advocates received a boost from businesses and businesses. Since then, criticism from the right has led many companies to scale back or eliminate their DEI programs entirely, or risk boycotts. controversy.
President Trump has made eradicating DEI policies from American society a central focus of his administration.
President Trump said on Monday: “I will… end government policies that seek to socialize race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.” “We will build a color-blind, meritocratic society.”
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