Trump administration in action in America, order to send DEI staff on paid leave on the very first day, to prepare for layoffs.

After Donald Trump took oath as the President of America, rapid decisions are being taken there. The Trump administration has directed that all Federal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staff (DEI) be sent on paid leave, and the concerned agencies should make a plan to remove them. A memorandum in this regard was issued by the Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday.

The memo comes after Trump signed an executive order on his first day as president ordering an overhaul of the federal government's diversity and inclusion programs, which could affect everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners.

The deadline has also been set by the administration.

The memo also asked agencies to send DEI office employees on paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday and remove all public DEI-focused webpages by the same deadline. However, many federal departments had already removed such web pages before the memo.

Agencies must now cancel any DEI-related training and terminate any related contracts. Federal employees are being told to report to Trump’s Office of Personnel Management within 10 days if they suspect a DEI-related program has been renamed to obscure its purpose or face “adverse consequences.”

Biden Administration vs. Trump Administration

By next Thursday, federal agencies are also instructed to prepare a list of federal DEI offices and employees by the date of the election. Then by the following day, Friday, they are expected to prepare a list for carrying out “reduction in force actions” against those federal employees.

The memo, which was first reported by CBS News, comes after an executive order on Monday that charged former President Joe Biden with implementing “anti-discrimination” programs “across nearly everything in the federal government” through “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs, known as DEI.

The move is the first step in an aggressive campaign to dismantle DEI efforts across the country, including leveraging the Justice Department and other agencies to investigate private companies that follow training and hiring practices that conservative critics consider discriminatory against non-minority groups such as white males.

Trump's aggressive attitude

The executive order picks up where Trump’s first administration left off. One of Trump’s final actions during his first term was an executive order banning federal agency contractors and recipients of federal funds from conducting anti-bias training, but Biden promptly rescinded that order on his first day in office and issued two executive orders — now rescinded by the Trump administration — outlining a plan to promote DEI across the federal government.

Many changes could take months or even years to be implemented, but Trump’s new anti-DEI agenda is more aggressive than his previous one and has led to a much more favorable environment in the corporate world.