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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 29, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8339-8341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01953]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 18 / Wednesday, January 29, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14151 of January 20, 2025

                
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI 
                Programs and Preferencing

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered:

                Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The Biden Administration 
                forced illegal and immoral discrimination programs, 
                going by the name ``diversity, equity, and inclusion'' 
                (DEI), into virtually all aspects of the Federal 
                Government, in areas ranging from airline safety to the 
                military. This was a concerted effort stemming from 
                President Biden's first day in office, when he issued 
                Executive Order 13985, ``Advancing Racial Equity and 
                Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal 
                Government.''

                Pursuant to Executive Order 13985 and follow-on orders, 
                nearly every Federal agency and entity submitted 
                ``Equity Action Plans'' to detail the ways that they 
                have furthered DEIs infiltration of the Federal 
                Government. The public release of these plans 
                demonstrated immense public waste and shameful 
                discrimination. That ends today. Americans deserve a 
                government committed to serving every person with equal 
                dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer 
                resources only on making America great.

                Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Director of the Office 
                of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the 
                Attorney General and the Director of the Office of 
                Personnel Management (OPM), shall coordinate the 
                termination of all discriminatory programs, including 
                illegal DEI and ``diversity, equity, inclusion, and 
                accessibility'' (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, 
                preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, 
                under whatever name they appear. To carry out this 
                directive, the Director of OPM, with the assistance of 
                the Attorney General as requested, shall review and 
                revise, as appropriate, all existing Federal employment 
                practices, union contracts, and training policies or 
                programs to comply with this order. Federal employment 
                practices, including Federal employee performance 
                reviews, shall reward individual initiative, skills, 
                performance, and hard work and shall not under any 
                circumstances consider DEI or DEIA factors, goals, 
                policies, mandates, or requirements.

                    (b) Each agency, department, or commission head, in 
                consultation with the Attorney General, the Director of 
                OMB, and the Director of OPM, as appropriate, shall 
                take the following actions within sixty days of this 
                order:

(i) terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and 
``environmental justice'' offices and positions (including but not limited 
to ``Chief Diversity Officer'' positions); all ``equity action plans,'' 
``equity'' actions, initiatives, or programs, ``equity-related'' grants or 
contracts; and all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees, 
contractors, or grantees.

(ii) provide the Director of the OMB with a list of all:

  (A) agency or department DEI, DEIA, or ``environmental justice'' 
positions, committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and 
expenditures in existence on November 4, 2024, and an assessment of whether 
these positions, committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and 
expenditures have been misleadingly relabeled in an attempt to preserve 
their pre-November 4, 2024 function;

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  (B) Federal contractors who have provided DEI training or DEI training 
materials to agency or department employees; and

  (C) Federal grantees who received Federal funding to provide or advance 
DEI, DEIA, or ``environmental justice'' programs, services, or activities 
since January 20, 2021.

(iii) direct the deputy agency or department head to:

  (A) assess the operational impact (e.g., the number of new DEI hires) and 
cost of the prior administration's DEI, DEIA, and ``environmental justice'' 
programs and policies; and

  (B) recommend actions, such as Congressional notifications under 28 
U.S.C. 530D, to align agency or department programs, activities, policies, 
regulations, guidance, employment practices, enforcement activities, 
contracts (including set-asides), grants, consent orders, and litigating 
positions with the policy of equal dignity and respect identified in 
section 1 of this order. The agency or department head and the Director of 
OMB shall jointly ensure that the deputy agency or department head has the 
authority and resources needed to carry out this directive.

                    (c) To inform and advise the President, so that he 
                may formulate appropriate and effective civil-rights 
                policies for the Executive Branch, the Assistant to the 
                President for Domestic Policy shall convene a monthly 
                meeting attended by the Director of OMB, the Director 
                of OPM, and each deputy agency or department head to:

(i) hear reports on the prevalence and the economic and social costs of 
DEI, DEIA, and ``environmental justice'' in agency or department programs, 
activities, policies, regulations, guidance, employment practices, 
enforcement activities, contracts (including set-asides), grants, consent 
orders, and litigating positions;

(ii) discuss any barriers to measures to comply with this order; and

(iii) monitor and track agency and department progress and identify 
potential areas for additional Presidential or legislative action to 
advance the policy of equal dignity and respect.

                Sec. 3. Severability. If any provision of this order, 
                or the application of any provision to any person or 
                circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of 
                this order and the application of its provisions to any 
                other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.

                Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

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                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 20, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-01953
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