{"id":30264,"date":"2025-01-11T16:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/how-could-trumps-second-term-affect-dei-initiatives-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T16:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:47:57","slug":"how-could-trumps-second-term-affect-dei-initiatives-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/how-could-trumps-second-term-affect-dei-initiatives-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How could Trump\u2019s second term affect DEI initiatives in the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president-elect has disparaged DEI. As Meta and Walmart drop diversity goals, here\u2019s how others may follow<\/p>\n<p>Even before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> won the election in November, multiple companies with announced they were ending their diversity initiatives. After the election, some of the country\u2019s largest companies announced they too were sunsetting some of their corporate programs.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Walmart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/dec\/15\/walmart-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-rollback\">said<\/a> it was rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals and would drop using the term altogether. McDonald\u2019s made a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jan\/06\/mcdonalds-diversity-programs\">statement<\/a> in January. On Friday, Meta became the latest major company to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/10\/meta-ending-dei-program\">announce<\/a> the end of its DEI goals, saying that the company will scrap its DEI team, its equity and inclusion training programs and requirements to have a \u201cdiverse slate\u201d of applicants when hiring.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jan\/11\/trump-dei-diversity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president-elect has disparaged DEI. As Meta and Walmart drop diversity goals, here\u2019s how others may follow Even before Donald Trump won the election in November, multiple companies with announced they were ending their diversity initiatives. After the election, some of the country\u2019s largest companies announced they too were sunsetting some of their corporate programs. &#8230; <a title=\"How could Trump\u2019s second term affect DEI initiatives in the US?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/how-could-trumps-second-term-affect-dei-initiatives-in-the-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How could Trump\u2019s second term affect DEI initiatives in the US?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}