Abolish diversity offices and end critical race theory programs
What the document says“Eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory programs and abolish newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and staff.”
The chapter asks for the abolition of diversity, equity and inclusion offices and their staff across the Department of Defense, and for the elimination of what it describes as Marxist indoctrination and critical race theory programs. It uses those terms without defining them.
What the document actually says“Eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory programs and abolish newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and staff.”
Get rid of these training programs. Close the diversity offices and let their staff go.
The military set up offices to work on fairness and diversity. The book says to close them. It says the training they run is harmful. It uses its own words for that training.
Restoring America's Fighting Force
2025-01-27 · 90 FR 8763
Section 4 orders the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security for the Coast Guard, to abolish every DEI office and any vestige of one, including sub-offices, programs, elements and initiatives, which is the abolition of offices and staff the chapter asks for. Section 6 bars the Department and the Armed Forces from promoting divisive concepts as defined in Executive Order 13950 and bars hiring anyone to teach them, and section 5 orders an internal review documenting past DEI actions. The fit is not exact in wording or scope: the order never uses the chapter's terms Marxist indoctrination or critical race theory, works instead through the divisive concepts definition carried over from 2020, and adds gender ideology, which this proposal does not raise.
The order tells the armed forces to shut down every DEI office. It also bars teaching ideas it calls divisive, and bars hiring people to teach them. The words the chapter used are not in the order. It leans on a 2020 test instead, and adds a topic the chapter did not raise.
1 agency rule
- Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs of the Department of Defense-Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; AmendmentDefense Department · July 24, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.