BALTIMORE — Baltimore City and a host of other organizations are suing the federal government over a pair of executive orders recently signed by President Donald Trump targeting Diversity Equity and Inclusion programs, better known as DEI.
During his first 48 hours in office Trump signed sweeping executive orders fulfilling a number of campaign pledges, including weeding out what he calls “illegal and immoral discrimination programs,” under the guise of DEI.
One order is titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.”
The White House says it’s a revocation of a Biden era order forcing Federal agencies and entities to submit “Equity Action Plans,” which they argue “demonstrated immense public waste and shameful discrimination.”
“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,” the Executive Order states.
It instructs federal agency heads to compile and terminate all equity based action plans, initiatives, programs, grants, and …