Abolish diversity offices at financial regulators
What the document says“Offices at financial regulators that promote racist policies (usually in the name of “diversity, equity, and inclusion”) should be abolished”
The part says discrimination based on immutable characteristics has no place in financial regulation, asks that regulations requiring appointments on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex or sexual orientation be eliminated, and says equal protection, equal opportunity and individual merit should govern regulatory decisions.
What the document actually says“Offices at financial regulators that promote racist policies (usually in the name of “diversity, equity, and inclusion”) should be abolished”
Close these offices at the finance watchdogs.
Money watchdogs have offices that work on fairness in hiring. The book says those rules are unfair. It wants the offices shut.
Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
2025-01-21 · 90 FR 8633
Executive Order 14173 of January 21, 2025 orders all executive departments and agencies to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders and requirements, and revokes Executive Order 11246 along with three other diversity directives. To the extent financial regulators are covered by that instruction, it reaches the regulations the proposal wants eliminated. The fit breaks down on the specific ask: the order abolishes no office, names no financial regulator, and creates no exception process for the offices of minority and women inclusion that Dodd-Frank requires by statute at the banking and securities agencies, which an executive order cannot close. Its detailed operative provisions run to federal contractors, private employers and educational institutions rather than to the regulators themselves.
The order tells every agency to end programs and deals it calls illegal. It also pulls four older orders. Where the agencies that watch banks and markets fall under it, the rules the book targets are reached. But the order shuts no office and names no such agency. Some of these offices are set by law, and an order cannot close them. Most of the text aims at contractors and schools.
20 agency rules
- Air Plan Approval; District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia; Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date and Clean Data Determination for the Washington, DC-MD-VA Nonattainment Area for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality StandardsEnvironmental Protection Agency · April 4, 2025
- Removal of Unconstitutional Preferences Based on Race and Sex in Response to Court RulingAgriculture Department, Office of the Secretary, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, Commodity Credit Corporation, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Rural Housing Service, Rural Utilities Service · July 10, 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
- National Environmental Policy Act Implementing RegulationsInterior Department, Office of the Secretary · February 24, 2026
- Approval of Clean Air Plans; San Joaquin Valley, California; Contingency Measures for 1997 Ozone StandardsEnvironmental Protection Agency · March 23, 2026
- National Environmental Policy ActAgriculture Department · April 3, 2026
- Air Plan Approval; Virginia; Repeal of Existing Stationary Source RegulationsEnvironmental Protection Agency · May 29, 2026
- Accountability in Higher Education and Access Through Demand- Driven Workforce Pell: Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings AccountabilityEducation Department · July 1, 2026
8 more not listed here.
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.