Removing Discrimination and Discriminatory Equity Ideology From the Foreign Service

Reporting cited here

1. documented

   On 2025-03-19, Donald Trump directed the Secretary of State to revise Foreign Service recruitment, performance, evaluation, and promotion policies to eliminate specified DEI considerations.

   Operative text of the cited action

   Foreign Service order replaced diversity criteria with presidential foreign-policy alignment · State Department directed to revise personnel rules; no cited court ruling voided the order.

2. documented
   Superseded · open corrected record

   On 2025-03-19, Donald Trump directed the Secretary of State to revise Foreign Service recruitment, performance, evaluation, and promotion policies to eliminate specified DEI considerations.

   Operative text of the cited action

   Trump ordered DEI considerations stripped from Foreign Service personnel policy · superseded evidence record