The policy proposals take aim at DEI initiatives in the executive branch and federal agencies, in line with years of conservative backlash...
Project 2025 outlines a slew of extreme policy recommendations, from dismantling the Department of Education to replacing experienced civil servants with political appointees.
But the policy plan also repeatedly returns to the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion across its nearly 900 pages, taking aim at DEI initiatives in the executive branch and federal agencies...
The foreword clearly signals the project’s intentions, and in a moment when DEI work at every level—whether in the government or private sector—has been under
near-constant attack. “The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors,” the authors write. “This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”