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How Thousands Of Federal Agencies Have Already Changed Their Websites Under Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/31/federal-agencies-websites-trump/
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President Donald Trump has moved swiftly to implement his policies across the federal government mainly with sweeping executive orders. His administration has been particularly focused on removing any references to diversity, equity and inclusion from federal agencies’ websites.

Asked by a reporter on Friday in the Oval Office whether he can confirm that websites would be shut down so they can be scrubbed of DEI content, Trump said, “I don’t know. It doesn’t sound like a bad idea to me.”

Trump added: “I think DEI is dead, so if they want to scrub the websites that’s okay with me.” And in many instances they already had. The White House press office released an unsigned statement to The Washington Post saying that the American people had given Trump a mandate “to remove DEI from our federal government and reinstate a system based on merit.”

A Post review of more than 8,000 federal webpages that changed since Inauguration Day found 662 examples of deletions and additions that reflect policy changes at the heart of Trump’s campaign. “Diversity” has been deleted. “Climate resilience” is now a popular substitute for “climate change.” And “pregnant people” hasbeen replaced by “pregnant women.”

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Diversity, equity and inclusion

Removing DEI-related language was the most common change The Post found in its analysis of webpages within 14 cabinet-level agencies, as organizations stripped the phrase off everything from codes of conduct to agency goals.

From long-standing job listings to now-shuttered DEI-related offices and even obscure, years-old webpages, almost every federal agency and department The Post reviewed removed references to “diversity,” “equity” and “inclusion.”


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