‘Unlawful DEI-motivated’ discrimination in the workplace to be rooted out by Trump’s new acting EEOC chair [Video]

President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) vowed to make rooting out illegal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in the workplace a priority, she said.

“Consistent with the President’s Executive Orders and priorities, my priorities will include rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination; protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination; defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single-sex spaces at work; protecting workers from religious bias and harassment, including antisemitism; and remedying other areas of recent under-enforcement,” Andrea Lucas said in a press release provided to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. 

Lucas was appointed to the EEOC as a commissioner in 2020 under the first Trump administration and has served in the role since. The EEOC is the federal government’s only agency authorized to investigate and sue private companies and employers over …