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The bill centralizes and enforces a government-wide ban on using DEI/DEIA factors—creating clearer, cheaper oversight for agencies and taxpayers—but risks job and revenue losses, legal uncertainty, and reduced capacity to address systemic discrimination and meet nondiscrimination obligations.
Federal agencies and their contractors will get a single, uniform set of rules (with OMB/OPM/DOJ coordination) that prohibit use of DEI/DEIA factors in hiring, contracting, and grants within 60 days, simplifying compliance across agencies.
Centralized OMB/OPM/DOJ coordination and elimination of disparate DEI programs could reduce duplicative DEI-related spending and oversight costs for taxpayers and federal employers.
Monthly White House-level monitoring and reporting will create a formal accountability process to track agency compliance and barriers to implementation.
Racial and other marginalized groups (including racial/ethnic minorities, women, and people with disabilities) may lose consideration of systemic-discrimination remedies and targeted measures, reducing their access to federal hiring, contracting, and grant opportunities.
Federal employees, grantees, and contractors that relied on DEI/DEIA roles, programs, or training risk job losses, terminated programs, and lost contract or grant revenue.
Rapid 60-day implementation deadlines and broad 'to the maximum extent allowed by law' language create legal uncertainty that could increase litigation and compliance costs for agencies, states, and contractors.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs OMB, DOJ, and OPM to coordinate ending federal DEI/DEIA mandates, programs, offices, contracts, and grants, and orders agencies to terminate them within 60 days as allowed by law.
Introduced January 28, 2025 by Cory Mills · Last progress January 28, 2025
Requires the White House Office of Management and Budget, with help from the Attorney General and the Office of Personnel Management, to coordinate ending all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI/DEIA) mandates, programs, policies, offices, positions, contracts, grants, and related activities. Agency leaders must, within 60 days of enactment, terminate DEI/DEIA offices and requirements to the maximum extent allowed by law, provide OMB with lists of affected offices, contractors, and grantees, assess operational impacts and costs, and recommend corrective steps. The President’s domestic policy assistant will convene monthly high-level meetings to track compliance and barriers, and the bill includes a severability clause.