Several executive orders impact women disproportionately
IT IS HARDLY six weeks or so ago that second term President Donald Trump started his purge of the US administration, eliminating political and bureaucratic opponents and consolidating his power through seemingly unfettered executive lawfare as if he is a latter-day absolute monarch.
Indeed, one of the first executive orders unleashed by his metaphorical “Night of the Long Knives” on January 20, which in his case was executed in broad daylight, was “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programmes and Preferencing” in the public sector.
In other words, “Federal employment practices shall not under any circumstances consider DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements."
He, and most of his Republican Congressmen and Senators, have long argued that the policy,…