Dismantle the agency's diversity structures and dismiss staff who promote them
What the document says“The next conservative Administration should dismantle USAID’s DEI apparatus by eliminating the Chief Diversity Officer position along with the DEI advisers and committees”
The chapter also asks that the diversity scorecard and dashboard be canceled, that such requirements be removed from contract and grant tenders, and that a directive issue to cease promotion of the agenda including what it calls the bullying LGBTQ+ agenda. It says staff, implementers and grantees who engage in ideological agitation on its behalf should be dismissed and entities debarred, and that funding for partners promoting such practices should end.
What the document actually says“The next conservative Administration should dismantle USAID’s DEI apparatus by eliminating the Chief Diversity Officer position along with the DEI advisers and committees”
Take apart the diversity setup here. End the top diversity job. End the panels too.
This agency has offices working on diversity. The book says they should be closed. It says staff who push that agenda should be let go. Firms that do so would lose funding.
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8339
Executive Order 14151, signed January 20, 2025, orders every agency head within sixty days to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI and DEIA offices and positions, naming Chief Diversity Officer positions, along with all equity action plans, equity related grants or contracts, and all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees, contractors and grantees, and to report to the Office of Management and Budget every such position, program and expenditure in existence on November 4, 2024 plus the contractors and grantees involved. Where the fit breaks down: the order is government-wide and reaches USAID only by that route, never naming the agency or its structures. The diversity scorecard and dashboard the chapter asks be canceled are not mentioned, there is no directive on what the chapter calls the LGBTQ plus agenda, and the order ends positions and programs rather than dismissing staff or debarring implementers and grantees.
The order gives each agency 60 days to end all diversity posts and plans, as far as the law allows. Chief diversity jobs are named. But the aid agency is not named and is covered only as one of many. The score card the book wanted pulled is not mentioned. It ends jobs and programs rather than firing staff or barring partners.
8 agency rules
- Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Rates; Changes to the FY 2025 IPPS Rates Due to Court Decision; Requirements for Quality Programs; and Other Policy Changes; Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Electronic Prescribing, Real-Time Prescription Benefit and Electronic Prior AuthorizationHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Secretary · August 4, 2025
- Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise in Airport Concessions Program Implementation ModificationsTransportation Department · October 3, 2025
- Reissuance and Modification of Nationwide PermitsDefense Department, Engineers Corps · January 8, 2026
- Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance RulesState Department · January 27, 2026
- Protecting Life in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Medicare Program; Alternative Payment Model Updates and the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) ModelHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · June 1, 2026
- Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program RevisionsTransportation Department, Office of the Secretary · September 25, 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.