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The stroke of a pan, the twice-in-piece, criminally convicted felon in chief Donald Trump

has dismantled affirmative action in federal contracting. On Tuesday, the Office of Personnel

Management issued a memo instructing agencies to place diversity, equity, and inclusion office staff

on paid leave, and all public DEI-focused web pages must be taken down by 5 p.m. Eastern today.

These employees are expected to be laid off.

Some have already been laid off.

This executive order and affirmative action revokes a directive issue by President Lyndon Johnson

that dealt with the issue of discrimination in federal contracting.

Journal of us right now is Damien Hewitt, President and Executive Director for the Laws Committee

for Civil Rights Under Law. Don't ask me why he's wearing a purple tie, but an alpha. Plus Ron Busby Sr., of course, President, CEO, the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. No surprise, he got a little red in his title. He's a little capa. All right, let's get right to it. Damon, I'm going to start with you.

First off, out of, look, we know these guys have been targeting DEI, but the, going after the Linden-Baines-Johnson executive order is a whole different thing, because that dealt specifically saying you can't discriminate in the hiring of folks when you're getting federal contract.

That's a whole different conversation.

Well, look, we always knew, Roland, that they were going not just after issues, they're going

after people and also going after the money.

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