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Trump Ends LBJ’s Affirmative Action Mandate for Government Contractors

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday revoking President Lyndon B. Johnson's Executive Order 11246, which required government contractors to implement affirmative action.

The White House's order would more broadly end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) “discrimination in federal employees and federal contracts and spending.” noticed.

Federal employment practices will now be merit-based, with employees rewarded based on their “individual autonomy, skills, performance, and hard work.”

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One of the major aspects of President Trump's move is that end Johnson's 1965 order.

Under President Trump's order, the Office of Management and Budget will “streamline the federal contracting process to increase speed and efficiency and reduce costs, and require federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with civil rights laws,” the White House said. stated in the fact sheet.

Additionally, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs states under the order that it cannot pressure “contractors to balance their workforce on the basis of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or religion.” Not accepted.

The White House says “radical DEI” reverses “the progress made toward color-blind, merit-based workplaces in the decades since the Civil Rights Act of 1964” and that DEI encourages authoritarianism. It states that

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President Trump renewed his commitment Sunday at a rally at Capital One Arena to end former President Joe Biden's DEI mandate and return to a pay-for-performance system.

President Trump vowed to “end destructive and divisive diversity equity and inclusion mandates across government and the private sector and return our country to a meritocracy.”

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action in college admissions, President Trump pledged for the first time to abolish DEI across the government in 2023.

Although he took drastic action to eliminate DEI practices from the federal government, Breitbart News noted that such practices have been voluntarily eliminated in the private sector since President Trump's election. .

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