{"id":31220,"date":"2025-01-22T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T10:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-orders-immediate-closure-of-all-us-federal-diversity-offices\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T10:47:07","slug":"trump-orders-immediate-closure-of-all-us-federal-diversity-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-orders-immediate-closure-of-all-us-federal-diversity-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump orders immediate closure of all US federal diversity offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff placed on paid administrative leave as president repeals executive orders promoting LGBTQ equality<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/22\/donald-trump-china-sanctions-tariff-diversity-us-politics-live-latest-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US federal employees working in diversity offices must be put on paid leave by Wednesday evening as the new administration of Donald Trump has ordered the programmes to close, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSend a notification to all employees of DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) offices that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close\/end all DEIA initiatives, offices and programs,\u201d said a US office of personnel management memo posted on X.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/22\/trump-orders-immediate-closure-of-all-us-federal-diversity-offices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff placed on paid administrative leave as president repeals executive orders promoting LGBTQ equality US politics live \u2013 latest updates US federal employees working in diversity offices must be put on paid leave by Wednesday evening as the new administration of Donald Trump has ordered the programmes to close, the White House press secretary, Karoline &#8230; <a title=\"Trump orders immediate closure of all US federal diversity offices\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-orders-immediate-closure-of-all-us-federal-diversity-offices\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump orders immediate closure of all US federal diversity offices\">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-31220","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\/31220","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=31220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}