In the coming weeks, the documents show, DOGE has planned for the Trump administration to trim staff from dozens of offices across the executive branch, including those that protect employees’ civil rights and others that investigate complaints of employment discrimination in the federal workplace. Among the groups targeted are a Veterans Affairs office that works to ensure all veterans receive equal access to care and an office within Health and Human Services that provides information about the health of minority populations.
The DOGE team is also looking to place on leave, and ultimately fire, scores of government employees who do not work in DEI roles but who perform functions that DOGE determined were related to DEI, the documents show. It is unclear precisely how DOGE intends to decide whether employees’ jobs are tied to DEI. Such a strategy will push, if not violate, the law and could draw legal challenge, team members wrote in the documents.
The internal documents reveal the scope, speed and ambition of DOGE’s work. Over the past three weeks, DOGE has torn through one federal agency after another, gaining access to sensitive data and winning control of the flow of federal cash. In a blitz that has shaken parts of Washington, DOGE team members have identified swaths of jobs and programs to eliminate that do not match Trump’s ideological views.
Trump campaigned against DEI, calling it divisive and destructive, and has in recent days celebrated its demise under his administration. DEI “would have ruined our country, and now it’s dead,” the president said last month.
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