Trump admin tells agencies to start firing DEI staffers
Source: Axios
11 hours ago
The Trump administration is directing the heads of federal agencies to "take action to terminate" staffers of DEI offices, according to a memo from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management issued Friday night.
Why it matters: The White House purge of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) programs and workers, begun Monday, is happening at lightning speed.
State of play: "[E]ach agency, department, or commission head shall take action to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and 'environmental justice' offices and positions within sixty days," the memo reads.
The memo updates a directive sent earlier this week that told agencies to submit written plans for executing a "reduction-in-force," i.e., layoffs, no later than January 31. But the new memo says agencies should start issuing these reduction-in-force notices now. It's not clear how many DEI staffers there are within the federal government, which employs millions of workers. In many cases it may not be possible to simply fire these workers; processes for doing so will vary.
Zoom in: The memo Friday night follows a directive issued earlier this week that ordered department and agency heads to close DEI offices — some of which are tasked with addressing accessibility issues for disabled people.
Agencies were ordered to put staff on paid leave, as well as take down all DEI websites, social accounts, and "outward facing media." They were also told to withdraw any plans in the equity and inclusion space and cancel all trainings and contracts. The directive included an email template that called on government employees to snitch on colleagues that were continuing these practices.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/25/trump-dei-workers-fired
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Fuck Trump, to the hottest circle of hell. 
at least one who made threats against a supervisor and harassed/stalked them after being put on Administrative leave. He was never "all there" but it eventually came to a head and he had to go (and he even continued the stalking after he was terminated).
The most common infractions (although the eventual punishment varied) was misuse of a government credit card and misuse of a government vehicle. Those government credit cards are just too addictive for some and they seem to ignore the fact that the Administrative Officer gets a copy of the bills for every credit card in that office. 
was for lodging (and rail or airfare if I had to travel that way when not using a GOV or POV). I didn't even use it for meals or incidentals or gas for the car or tolls or anything else (I used my own $$$ and just put in for reimbursement).
And when we first got those GSA cards, they were Diner's Club ones that very few places took. 
They later contracted with American Express and when that contract was up, they moved to JPMorgan (as a Mastercard I think).
And I remember the days BEFORE the government credit card when they would give us the cash as a cash advance upfront! 
here in Philly, with their functions eventually getting broken up and parceled out during the alignment period, across other entities.
Man... I know that had to be a nightmare for you. 
