President Trump issued a broad executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” which among other things, rescinded Executive Order (“EO”) 11246 – the authority underpinning affirmative action for federal contractors and subcontractors.

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order titled "Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based

President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based

A prizewinning historian, he, along and his wife, Abigail, was a conservative opponent of racial preferences, favoring school choice and voucher programs instead.

Lyndon Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, which required racially diverse hiring from federal contractors, had survived five Republican presidents. It couldn’t survive Trump, who erased it with a command to end “illegal preferences and discrimination” across the government.

With President Donald Trump’s changes to the federal workforce, focusing on eliminating DEI programs, here’s a look at the differences between Affirmative Action and DEI.

Sen. Dan Sullivan provided little information and didn't seem to understand his bill, while all but one person spoke against it. A Senate committee passed it anyway.

With his wife, Abigail, the Harvard professor spent much of his career studying social mobility and the American Dream through the lives of ordinary people.

Last week’s revocation of federal affirmative action requirements was accompanied by a statement from the Trump administration stating its intent

Fearless Editor When President Donald Trump took office, he signed a slew of executive orders, including ones intent on dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in both the public and private sectors.

Certainly, Trump is not the first occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to take such executive actions. Shortly before he left office, President Joe Biden declared that the Equal Rights Amendment was now part of the Constitution and “the law of the land,” never mind that federal courts and the National Archivist have said otherwise.