[WND] House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told left-wing activists Thursday that the Trump administration was carrying out an "all-out assault on civil rights" by opposing diversity, equity and inclusion.
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order within hours of taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, mandating an end to DEI efforts in the federal government. Jeffries told attendees of the National Action Network annual convention that DEI was mandated by the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
"No matter what these extremists are trying to do with their all-out assault on civil rights, on voting rights, certainly on diversity, equity and inclusion — and we won't let these extremists get away with lying to the American people," the New York Democrat maintained. "They want to suggest that diversity, equity, and inclusion are foreign values. They're not foreign values, they're American values." |