The move is one of many executive actions focused on the federal workforce enacted since Trump took office Monday afternoon. His other actions addressed DEI hiring more broadly, froze hiring in most executive agencies and directed a return to in-person work for many federal employees, among other directives.

President Trump’s directive on Tuesday placing all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion staffers on leave before they’re eventually laid off has reignited the debate around DEI initiatives. The move Tuesday followed a related executive order from Trump accusing former President Joe Biden of forcing “discrimination” programs into “virtually all aspects of the federal government” through “diversity,