Trump Moves to Purge DEI from Government; Sends Active Duty Troops to Border
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump issued an executive order to end affirmative action for federal contractors. He also directed all federal staff working on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to be put on leave. And it doesn’t end there. Trump also put an end to the orders and policies of the Biden administration that focused on race politics. This is all a part of Trump's sweeping moves to purge DEI from the federal government.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump is moving quickly to enact his campaign promises. He has issued orders that look to purge |
| 0:06.5 | DEI and affirmative action from the federal government. In other news, the CBP1 app, well, it's no longer working. |
| 0:14.4 | That was the app that was helping facilitate mass illegal immigration into the United States. |
| 0:20.3 | And as this happens, Trump is also sending |
| 0:22.8 | 1,500 active duty troops to the southern border. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator |
| 0:29.2 | reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:44.6 | The United States is going back to a colorblind type culture, right? You're not supposed to take a person's race or the color of their skin into account when you judge their character. |
| 0:49.0 | This was Martin Luther King himself, right? Judge a person by the content of their character, |
| 0:53.7 | not by the color of their skin. |
| 0:55.9 | And look, a person's race will no longer be used to give people better or worse treatment in hiring |
| 1:03.1 | or in government agencies, at least not officially, right? You might still have some people who do it |
| 1:09.2 | on their own. They're getting themselves |
| 1:11.0 | into some trouble if they do. President Donald Trump issued orders to end affirmative action for |
| 1:17.8 | federal contractors. If you get government money over $50,000 or if you have like over a small |
| 1:23.2 | number of people, you're held to this. And he also directed all federal staff working on diversity, |
| 1:30.9 | equity, and inclusion. If that's your job, you're put on leave. And it doesn't end there. Trump also |
| 1:36.1 | brought an end to orders and policies of the previous administration focused on race politics. |
| 1:41.9 | He just pulled all of it out of the entire system in one swoop. |
| 1:48.0 | Now, look, one of the key points with this actually goes back to 1965. And some of the history |
| 1:52.7 | here is important. Let's talk about LBJ, Lyndon B. Johnson, the former president. LBJ issued |
| 2:00.5 | executive order 11246, and that created a race-based hiring |
| 2:06.9 | recruitment program for federal contractors. Let me show you the official order he had. This is |
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