ENDING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION PRACTICES: In 21 months back in office, President Donald J. Trump has removed wasteful and unmeritocratic DEI programs from government, education, and the private sector. President Trump promised it and delivered – DEI is dead.

• On day one, President Trump rescinded Orders from the previous administration that injected DEI into our institutions, replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy, and signed an Executive Order ending radical and wasteful DEI programs and preferencing in the Federal government.
• In January 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum terminating a Biden Administration Federal Aviation Administration hiring policy that prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion over safety and efficiency.
• In January 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order protecting the civil rights of all Americans and expanding individual opportunity by terminating radical DEI preferencing in federal contracting and directing federal agencies to relentlessly combat private sector discrimination.
• In January 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating race- and sex-based discrimination within the armed forces to restore merit and lethality to America’s fighting force.
• In February 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum removing DEI from the Foreign Service. 
• In March 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to ensure that programs or activities receiving any remaining Department of Education funds will not advance DEI or gender ideology.
• In March 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to restore truth and sanity to American history, including the Smithsonian Institution.
• In April 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to overhaul the higher education accreditation system, ensuring colleges and universities deliver high-quality, high-value education free from unlawful DEI discrimination and ideological overreach.
• In April 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order ensuring school discipline policies are based on objective behavior, not DEI. 
• In April 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating the use of disparate-impact liability – the legal theory that differences in outcomes among races, sexes or similar groups indicate unlawful discrimination – in various contexts to ensure equal treatment under the law.
• In May 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order ending the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and the PBS after NPR described its DEI practices as “inseparable” from its content.
• In July 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to facilitate the rapid and efficient buildout of data center infrastructure and revoke a Biden-era Executive Order that would have saddled SI data center development on Federal lands with pages of DEI and climate requirements.
• In July 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order protecting Americans from biased SI outputs driven by ideologies like DEI at the cost of accuracy.
• In August 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order stopping unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from wasting taxpayer dollars on frivolous DEI grants.
• In December 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to end the outsized influence of proxy advisors that prioritize radical political agendas, including DEI, over investor returns.
• In December 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to protect American SI innovation from an inconsistent and costly compliance regime, including State laws that force companies to embed DEI into their models.
• In March 2026, President Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating racially discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion”  practices by Federal contractors and their subcontractors, ensuring merit-based and efficient contracting and employment.

HOLDING EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ACCOUNTABLE

• In July 2025, President Trump secured a historic $221 million settlement with Columbia University to restore accountability and fairness in higher education after the university’s DEI policies and practices raised urgent concerns about equal opportunity and potential noncompliance with Federal law.
• In July 2025, President Trump secured a $50 million settlement with Brown University to address concerns around DEI and gender ideology.
• In October 2025, President Trump secured a settlement with the University of Virginia to protect its students, faculty, and employees from illegal DEI.
• In November 2025, President Trump secured a $60 million settlement with Cornell University to address its DEI policies and antisemitic practices on its campus.
• In November 2025, President Trump secured a $75 million settlement with Northwestern University to address DEI and antisemitic practices on its campus.
• The University of California stopped requiring diversity statements in hiring following President Trump’s Executive Orders combatting DEI in education. 
• The Department of Justice launched investigations into DEI initiatives at Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine. 
• The Trump Administration paused $210 million in federal funding to Princeton amid an investigation into DEI and antisemitism on Princeton’s campus. 
• The Department of Justice launched investigations into DEI initiatives at Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine. 
• The Trump Administration launched a review of $9 billion in federal funding for Harvard University over antisemitism and DEI concerns. 
• The Trump Administration launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University over its hiring practices.
• The Department of Homeland Security subpoenaed Harvard University as part of its probe into the college’s foreign student exchange program.  
• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology shuttered its DEI office following President Trump’s executive order. 
• Virginia Beach School Board passed a resolution suspending DEI policies in order to comply with President Trump’s Executive Order directing federally funded schools to not advance DEI or gender ideology. 
• Ball State University announced it would be ending its DEI programs in response to President Trump’s executive actions.
• James Madison University dissolved its DEI division in response to President Trump’s Executive Order.
• Ohio University acted to end all DEI on campus and will not attempt to reinstitute it under another name.
• The Department of Justice launched an investigation into the University of Virginia’s DEI practices. 
• The Department of Education launched a probe into universities alleged to have discriminated based on national origin in order to provide scholarships to illegal aliens. 
• The Department of Health and Human Services is froze over $100 million in funding to Duke University’s medical school after it failed to comply with President Trump’s Executive Order ending DEI.
• The Department of Education announced it will suspend or cut federal funds for five Northern Virginia school districts due to their unwillingness to remove males from female bathrooms and locker rooms.
• The Department of Education found George Mason University in violation of Title VI by illegally using race and other immutable characteristics in university practices and policies, including hiring and promotion. 
• A Department of Justice investigation determined Yale Medical School had discriminated against Asian and white applicants on the basis of race. 
• The Department of Treasury moved to end tax-exempt status for private schools engaging in racial discrimination. 
• The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education — which accredits all medical residency programs and fellowships — announced it is pausing the enforcement of its DEI requirements.

ENSURING A MERIT-BASED PRIVATE SECTOR

• The Small Business Administration ended racial discrimination in the 8(a) Business Development Program and dismantled the race-based admissions framework that previously barred Americans of certain races from accessing 8(a) set-aside and sole-source contracting opportunities.
• The Federal Communications Commission launched a probe into NBC News’ parent Comcast’s promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
• From President Trump’s election through March 2025, 90 percent of the top 400 companies in the S&P 500 index cut at least some references to DEI, with many ditching the term entirely.
• The Trump Administration reached a deal with Milbank LLP for the law firm to scrap its DEI activities and provide $100 million in pro bono services to causes supported by both the firm and the Trump Administration. 
• The Federal Communications Commission approved Skydance’s $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global with the condition that Skydance agree to eliminate DEI programs. 
• T-Mobile scrapped its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies as a result of President Trump’s executive orders.
• Goldman Sachs eliminated DEI requirements for the boards of the clients it takes public as a result of President Trump’s Executive Orders. 
• A study of over 15,000 publicly traded companies showed DEI commitments plummeted in 2025. 
• Deloitte agreed to pay the Department of Justice nearly $22 million over claims of discriminatory DEI hiring practices.
• Accenture agreed to pay the Department of Justice nearly $25 million over claims of discriminatory DEI hiring practices.

CUTTING WASTEFUL DEI FUNDING AND ACTIVITIES

• The Trump Administration terminated at least 104 DEI-related contracts with values totaling more than $1 billion. 
• The Department of Education cut $600 million in divisive, DEI teacher training grants.
• The Department of Energy canceled more than $124 million in wasteful spending, including DEI contracts, news subscriptions and other nonessential expenditures.
• EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced he was cancelling over 400 DEI and Environmental Justice grants across 9 grant programs, saving taxpayers a total of $1.7 billion. 
• HHS cut over $350 million in DEI spending. 
• The Trump Administration ended aid to South Africa following its continuation of discriminatory racial policies. 
• ODNI cut a slew of DEI programs, saving the U.S. taxpayer nearly $30 million. 
• The Trump Administration terminated $54 million worth of woke grants from the Department of Transportation. 
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will terminate more than 145 DEI grants, resulting in savings of up to $148.6 million. 
• The Supreme Court ruled the Trump Administration can cut nearly $800 million in funding tied to DEI studies.
• The Department of Education announced it is ending the taxpayer funding of political activism jobs on college campuses.

• The Administration announced that $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure spending would be frozen amid a probe into whether the funding was going towards DEI.
• The Administration announced that $18 billion in taxpayer-funded New York infrastructure spending would be frozen amid a probe into whether the funding was going towards DEI. 

REINSTITUTING MERIT THROUGHOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

• President Trump fired a slew of Trump-Kennedy Center board members who had pushed a woke ideology at the cultural institution, hosting drag shows for children and creating special awards for so-called “nonbinary” artists. 
• The Trump Administration changed federal contracting rules to prohibit federal contractors from engaging in DEI discrimination. 
• The Department of Justice dismissed several Biden-era lawsuits against police and fire departments who used race-neutral mechanisms — such as standard aptitude tests, physical exams, and credit checks — in their hiring processes, the result of which lowered standards and endangered public safety.
• The Department of Transportation rescinded Biden-era memoranda that injected social justice and radical environmental considerations into infrastructure funding decisions.
• The Trump Administration opened a racial discrimination pattern and practice investigation into Hennepin County, Minnesota’s recently announced policy of taking race into consideration in plea offers.
• President Trump and Secretary Lutnick scrapped the Biden Administration’s Digital Equity Act – a racist and illegal $2.5 billion giveaway to DEI. 
• The Department of Agriculture terminated discriminatory Biden-era requirements for the use of racial and gender preferences in USDA programs. 
• Following years of the destruction of U.S. monuments at the hands of the woke mob, the Trump Administration moved to reinstall various historical statues.
• The Trump Administration successfully challenged a decades-old court order that prevented the federal government from using objective tests to measure job applicants’ skills, allowing the federal government to once against judge applicants based on raw merit.
• President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization due to its antisemitic and DEI policies. 

• The State Department announced it will replace the existing DEI-influenced Foreign Service Officer Test with a merit-based structure. 
• The Department of Justice sued the state of Minnesota for its use of affirmative action in hiring at state agencies.
• The Office of Personnel Management issued a final rule to remove DEI guidelines from federal hiring. 

See more at WhiteHouse.gov/DEI