Trump’s War on DEI Has Been Years in the Making

Trump allies have been flooding the DOJ with “reverse discrimination” complaints since Biden took office. Trump’s administration is expected to act on them — and more.

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Stephen Miller’s group America First Legal have pushed a campaign to target corporate diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Evan Vucci/AP

Major companies like Meta and Ford are undoing diversity initiatives. Once Donald Trump takes office, those rollbacks are expected to be much more widespread — and perhaps not voluntary.

Since the end of Trump’s first term, conservative legal organizations like the Stephen Miller-founded America First Legal have pushed a campaign to target corporate diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

They’ve filed lawsuits and flooded the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with letters and formal complaints in an effort to get the Department of Justice’s Office of Civil Rights to look into their allegations. The Biden administration mostly didn’t engage; Trump’s DOJ is expected to be different.