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A team of workers from the “US #DOGE Service” developed step-by-step plans for carrying out #Trump’s order to #purge #diversity, #equity & #inclusion initiatives from the federal government—& over the next six months intend to expand that campaign dramatically, acc/to documents obtained by WaPo. DOGE aims to target staffers who are NOT in #DEI roles & employees who work in offices established by #law to ensure #EqualRights, internal DOGE documents show.

In the coming weeks, the docs show, #DOGE has planned for the #Trump admin to trim staff from dozens of offices across the executive branch, including those that protect employees’ #CivilRights & others that investigate complaints of employment #discrimination in the federal workplace. Among the groups targeted are a #VeteransAffairs office that works to ensure all #veterans receive #equal #access to care & an office within #HHS that provides info about the #health of minority populations.

The #DOGE team is also looking to place on leave, & ultimately #fire, scores of government employees who do not work in #DEI roles but who perform functions that DOGE [in their biased view] determined were somehow related to DEI, the documents show. It is unclear precisely how DOGE intends to decide whether employees’ jobs are tied to DEI. Such a strategy will push, if not violate, the #law & will draw #legal challenge, team members wrote in the documents.

The internal docs reveal the scope, speed & ambition of #DOGE's work. Over the past 3 wks, DOGE has torn through one federal agency after another, gaining access to sensitive data & winning control of the flow of federal cash. In a blitz that has shaken Washington, DOGE team members have identified swaths of jobs & programs to eliminate that do not match #Trump's *ideological* views.

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Here's an annotated guide to #Trump’s & #ElonMusk’s #DOGE playbook for eliminating #DEI & non-DEI employees, entire divisions & programs from the #UnitedStates #FederalGovernment.

https://wapo.st/3X57JjB

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…even before #Trump took office, a #DOGE team that included #ElonMusk’s top aides — who have links to his companies but little to no #government or #political experience — was planning actions far beyond DOGE’s original remit of reducing the government’s size & spending.

The weeks leading up to the inauguration, DOGE positioned & envisioned itself as the executor & #enforcer of Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder against #diversity.

#DOGE staffers developed a 3-part plan for #Trump’s anti-DEI campaign….“Phase 1” marked the 1st day of Trump’s presidency, when #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder stating all #DEI offices, positions & programs within the #ExecutiveBranch must be terminated within 60 days. The DOGE plan laid out how, on Inauguration Day, all #FederalAgencies should begin placing DEI workers on paid leave & shutting down DEI websites & social media accounts. Those changes transpired almost exactly as DOGE laid out.

The nation is now in #DOGE’s “Phase 2,” which is scheduled to last until Wednesday, per the documents. In this stage, DOGE planned for the #Trump admin to place on leave some employees working at statutorily required [by federal legal statute] offices. The admin is also supposed to cancel “#DEI-focused” federal contracts & grants. And the admin is meant to ID workers across the govt who hold non-DEI jobs but who can be tied to #diversity initiatives through unspecified other means….

“There are DEI-focused personnel embedded throughout divisions that do not have any identifying #DEI criteria in their name,” one doc states. “Phase 2/3 will be focused on identifying these employees & putting them on administrative leave.”

Some of Phase 2 appears to be underway at the #Education Dept. The dept last month placed on leave nearly 100 employees in non-DEI roles after #DOGE staffers unearthed personnel records showing most took a #DiversityTraining during the first #Trump admin….

#DOGE’s “Phase 3” starts later this month, on the 31st day of the #Trump admin, & lasts until the 180th day, which is in mid-July, acc/to the documents. That stage moves from placing workers on paid leave to calling for large-scale #firings, the documents show. Ultimately, DOGE intends for the Trump admin to #terminate all DEI-linked employees via a Reduction In Force (#RIF) action—the federal form of #layoffs — including some who work for legally mandated offices.

A 2nd bullet point states: “#RIF the Phase 2 offices’ *corrupted* branches,” referring to what DOGE has determined are #DEI elements of offices required by #law. The bullet point concludes: “We are exploring options for this.”

One such option emerged this week. On Tues, #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder paving the way for #FederalAgencies to reshape or terminate offices legally mandated to exist.

…#DOGE has maintained a veil of secrecy, refusing to disclose the names of staff, what positions they hold or how much they are being paid. But The Post has reported that >30 people work closely for or w/DOGE, about ½ of whom have ties to #ElonMusk or his companies.

In early Jan, DOGE staffers started filling out spreadsheets tracking various #diversity-related elements of the govt, including #DEI offices, contracts & spending, records & documents…show.

#law #USpol #TrumpCoup #Autocracy

The records show a handful of #DOGE team members active in workshopping the plan: #StephanieHolmes, a fmr Jones Day lawyer who now runs HR at DOGE; #AnthonyArmstrong, a banker who advised Musk on his acquisition of Twitter; #BrianBjelde, a 20-year SpaceX employee; & #NoahPeters, an attorney who once worked at the Federal #Labor Relations Authority. Holmes was the creator of many of the documents & spreadsheets, acc/to metadata….

Armstrong, Bjelde & Peters have been heavily involved in #DOGE’s work reshaping the #OPM, The Post & other outlets have reported. Another frequent contributor to the planning was #AdamRamada, a DOGE team member whom Business Insider has identified as a Miami #VC investor with a stake in a SpaceX supplier. Ramada has recently been active in efforts to slash spending & staff at the #Education Dept, acc/to records….

The #DOGE team identified 131 agencies within the #FederalGovernment, then assigned one of at least 30 reviewers to examine all the agency’s sub-offices & employees. DOGE staffers searched each agency’s structure & personnel for the terms “#diversity,” “#equity,” “#inclusion,” “#DEI” & “#justice.” Reviews were often completed within a day or two, records show.

#law #USpol #CivilRights #TrumpCoup #Trump #RegimeChange #Autocracy #authoritarianism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism

The grp compiled 2 lists, “#DEI Grants to Eliminate” & “DEI 10 Contracts to Eliminate,” detailing ~$380M from #NASA, #Labor Dpt, #Defense & #HHS. Most contracts were for #DEITraining, #ProfessionalDevelopment or workplace surveys. #Grants to cancel included $22.2M “#Nursing Workforce Diversity” program at #Health Resources & Services, to encourage nursing careers for minorities, & $8.35M “#FairHousing” initiative to promote racial #desegregation, incl’g by ending race based neighbor #harassment.

And, citing an article from the *#conservative* media outlet Daily Wire as their inspiration, #DOGE team members analyzed >800 federal job postings w/ #DEI responsibilities on usajobs.com to determine that 50 had been filled in 2024, the documents show.

“The employee names are not [available],” one DOGE spreadsheet reads, “but included below is as much information available about each of the jobs, so we can find the hired employees in Phase 2.”
#Gestapo #law #USpol #Trump #TrumpCoup

The docs also detail scripts for what #OPM staff should say in calls to interim agency heads explaining #Trump’s anti-#DEI #ExecutiveOrder, as well as what those interim agency heads should say in calls to employees tasked w/carrying out that order.…

The #DOGE docs further include suggested versions of the email agencies could send to inform employees in DEI roles that they were being placed on leave.

The emails sent to such employees in January matched a DOGE draft email nearly word for word…

A FAQ that #DOGE created for agency heads showed that even team members did not feel confident in their #powers.

In one…draft FAQ, a question — posed from the perspective of an agency head — asks, “Under what authority are you directing us to do this?”

Beneath the question is one word highlighted in yellow: “EO,” referring to #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder. Next to the acronym, in a set of brackets, there is a single character apparently questioning whether such an order would be sufficient: “[?]”