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White House Issues Diversity Training Memo to Undo Trump Actions - Bloomberg - 3/3/21

  • 1.  White House Issues Diversity Training Memo to Undo Trump Actions - Bloomberg - 3/3/21

    National Council Staff
    Posted 03-03-2021 14:01
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    Dear Association Executives - See below and attached following up on the discussion on this issue earlier this year. Please let us know if you have any questions. 

    White House Issues Diversity Training Memo to Undo Trump Actions
    By Louis C. LaBrecque / March 3, 2021 10:02AM ET / Bloomberg Law

    U.S. agencies should immediately roll back all actions related to Trump-era executive orders and guidance that barred them, and federal contractors, from engaging in "divisive" diversity training that involved "scapegoating" based on race and sex, according to a memo from the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

    Dated March 2, the memo implements an executive order signed Jan. 20 by President Joe Biden that revoked an order issued in September by President Donald Trump.

    Agencies should ensure when soliciting diversity training contracts that they aren't using language connected with the Trump order and the previous OMB guidance, the new memo says. To the extent that such language appears in existing contracts, agencies should "ensure such provisions are not enforced," it says.

    To contact the reporter on this story: Louis C. LaBrecque in Washington at llabrecque@bloomberglaw.com
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