Brian Lehrer Weekend: Trump's Anti-DEI Push; State of Journalism; Staying Warm
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
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🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lairer here. |
| 0:01.4 | Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend, |
| 0:03.0 | three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:05.0 | packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend. |
| 0:07.6 | So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. |
| 0:11.2 | on WNYC and WNYC. Good morning, everyone. |
| 1:13.6 | Well, with so many Trump initiatives and orders in his first few days, we'll take another close look at one of them right now. It's the halting of all federal government diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and the removal from the federal workforce of all employees who work on such programs. They were all being put on temporary paid leave as of 5 p.m. yesterday. And the reporting on this is that they'll be reassigned if the government has the right openings or laid off. One notable part of this is that Trump canceled a nearly 60-year-old executive order from President Lyndon Johnson that required non-discrimination and affirmative action by federal contractors. |
| 1:20.1 | It was one of Johnson's initiatives after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
| 1:26.3 | Here is LBJ the following year. |
| 1:28.3 | You do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, |
| 1:37.3 | bringing up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others and still justly believe |
| 1:47.7 | that you have been completely fair but on monday night trump canceled that executive order saying |
| 1:55.8 | this as he signed the reversal this is a big deal. Our country is going to be based on merit again. |
| 2:04.2 | Can you believe it? |
| 2:06.2 | So with more on this, and to help invite calls and texts from federal workers and others, |
| 2:11.7 | is Russell Contreras, Justice and Race Reporter, at Axios, who's been on this story. |
| 2:18.0 | Russell, thanks for coming on with us. Welcome to WNYC. |
| 2:21.1 | Good to be with you, brother. And listeners, you can help us report this story. Any federal |
| 2:26.3 | workers listening right now who have just been placed on paid leave because your job involves |
| 2:32.3 | diversity, equity, or inclusion work. |
| 2:34.3 | 212-433 WNYC, we would love to hear from you. |
| 2:39.5 | Any owners or employees of federal contractors |
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