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Just hours after his swearing-in this week, as a raft of executive orders was presented and signed at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump authorized action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.”
Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk has derided DEI initiatives as “racism” and opponents say they take opportunities away from White Americans.
But Trump’s order also took aim at “environmental justice” — eliminating positions and assessing spending on projects, including those aimed at poor, rural communities.
Grants approved and under consideration by the Federal Emergency Management Agency show projects from Alaska to Florida, many targeted at helping small communities.
The endangerment of these projects under the new administration was “not unexpected,” said Jalonne White-Newsome, former federal chief environmental justice officer at the White House Council on Environmental Quality — a position created under the Biden administration.
“The revocation of several executive orders over the past couple of days signal what the (Trump) administration says is valuable — and it’s definitely not the American People,” White-Newsome told CNN.
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