DOGE’s next target: federal officials monitoring civil rights and discrimination

[Dr. Acula]

DOGE targets federal officials monitoring civil rights and discrimination: report

Leaked documents reveal the scope and speed at which Elon Musk intends to gut the workforce

www.independent.co.uk

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DOGE’s next target: federal officials monitoring civil rights and discrimination, report says​

Leaked documents reveal the scope and speed at which Elon Musk intends to gut the workforce​

Rhian Lubin
in New York
Sunday 16 February 2025 00:27 GMT

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is expected to purge federal agencies that protect against workplace discrimination and civil rights abuses as Donald Trump’s administration guts roles across the government in a crusade against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Since taking office, Trump put all federal DEI workers on leave. Now, DOGE will target federal workers who monitor civil rights and discrimination, according to documents obtained byThe Washington Post.

Jobs next on the chopping block are expected inside the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides healthcare and other benefits to veterans, and the Office of Minority Health, which operates within the Department of Health and Human Services to address health disparities among minority communities.

It was reported Friday that Veterans Affairs has already dismissed more than 1,000 new employees as part of the purge.

The cuts are expected to hit roles that are not connected to DEI but which perform functions that DOGE claims are connected to DEI, as Musk and his allies falsely conflate diversity and antidiscrimination efforts as racist themselves.

“DEI Offices are statutorily mandated offices ... that have been corrupted with new DEI divisions,” the document reads. “These are tagged for Phase 2. Phase 2 will identify the non-statutory branches/ DEI employees and place them on administrative leave.”
Trump and Musk have vowed to get rid of DEI initiatives brought in by the Biden administration
Trump and Musk have vowed to get rid of DEI initiatives brought in by the Biden administration (AFP via Getty Images)

The documents reveal the scope and speed at which Musk’s department intends to move. The plans and divided into three phases, with the first focusing on rolling back DEI programs that were started under former president Joe Biden and shutting down federal agencies. Trump and Musk have already tried to dismantle, such as the U.S. Agency for International Aid and Development, while fighting off legal challenges against them.

Phase 2, according to the documents, focuses on placing staffers in non-DEI roles on leave, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Phase 3, which starts later this month, moves to mass firings; DOGE intends to terminate all DEI-affiliated staff through a large-scale reduction-in-force order.

Civil rights groups have reacted with alarm to the plans.

“Call it what it is: a plan to re-segregate the federal workforce,” Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible said in a post on BlueSky.

Leslie Proll, senior director of the voting rights program with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said: “We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.”

“It is a segregation campaign,” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie said.

The White House said the president fully supports DOGE’s efforts.

“The White House’s position is that we are ridding the federal government of DEI, full stop,” a spokesperson told The Washington Post. “DOGE is there as a collaborator ensuring that we get rid of waste, fraud and abuse. And if DEI is waste, fraud and abuse, it’s gone.

 

[Buddy]

Imma need somebody to sit his ass down and explain--under oath-- wtf he was thinking when he fired those nuclear specialists. This is and anything else is a distraction at this point or at best, more evidence for wanton incompetence. It's time to put the full light of the US government up his ass

 

[Samori Toure]

The thousands of upcoming lawsuits alleging discrimination will be easy to prove in court.

 

[Uachet]

If I was able to, I would ask them if they think seeing any non-White person in the US Government is a DEI hire? It will not change their actions, but it will give a clear picture to those who are non-White and support Trump, that he intends to remove them too.

Will that change their position, I don't know. If they don't though, it will show that their self-hatred and desire to be accepted by White people is so great, that no one in their community should accept them back in when they come trying to lie and say "They did not know".

 

[Dont@Me]

Imma need somebody to sit his ass down and explain--under oath-- wtf he was thinking when he fired those nuclear specialists. This is and anything else is a distraction at this point or at best, more evidence for wanton incompetence. It's time to put the full light of the US government up his ass

tbh bro, there are too many things going on that need spotlighting on this administration. It's hard to keep up.

 

[keond]

tbh bro, there are too many things going on that need spotlighting on this administration. It's hard to keep up.

Yea they are spamming this shyt so that white folks (who feel like they are the real victims of racism) are pacified while they demolish shyt that they would ordinarily be upset about. They really are giving them circus and bread (look up the phrase)

 

[Buddy]

tbh bro, there are too many things going on that need spotlighting on this administration. It's hard to keep up.

That my whole point.
Damn everything else, I'm not forgettibg about the nukes

 

[eXodus]

Yea they are spamming this shyt so that white folks (who feel like they are the real victims of racism) are pacified while they demolish shyt that they would ordinarily be upset about. They really are giving them circus and bread (look up the phrase)