Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project: on Civil Rights

Heritage Foundation: Eliminate the term "DEI" from every federal law

The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity ("SOGI"), diversity, equity, and inclusion ("DEI"), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists. The noxious tenets of "critical race theory" and "gender ideology" should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country. These theories poison our children, who are being taught on the one hand to affirm that the color of their skin fundamentally determines their identity and even their moral status while on the other they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in being human. Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p. 4-5 Apr 1, 2023

Heritage Foundation: End Critical Race Theory (CRT) training & classification

The Biden Administration has pushed "racial equity" in every area of our national life, including in employment, and has condoned the use of racial classifications and racial preferences under the guise of DEI and critical race theory, which categorizes individuals as oppressors and victims based on race. Nondiscrimination and equality are the law; DEI is not. Title VII flatly prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, and national origin.

Issue an executive order banning the federal government from using taxpayer dollars to fund all critical race theory training (CRT).
Enforce Title VII. The President should direct the DOJ and EEOC to prohibit racial classifications and quotas, including human-resources classifications and DEI trainings that promote critical race theory.
Amend Title VII to prohibit the EEOC from collecting EEO-1 data and any other racial classifications in employment for both private & public workplaces.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.582-3 Apr 1, 2023

Joe Biden: Created Treasury office for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Under the Biden Administration, the Treasury Department has appointed a Counselor for Racial Equity, established an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, and created an office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. All these should be eliminated. Treasury has created several new offices to promote "equity" and has made this its first of five strategic goals in its Fiscal Year 2022-2226 Strategic Plan. "Equity" is identified as a cross-cutting theme in 15 of 19 of the plan's objectives.

The avowed purpose of these initiatives is to implement policies that deliberately favor some races or ethnicities over others. The casual acceptance and rapid spread of racist policymaking in the federal government must be forcefully opposed and reversed. The next conservative Administration should take affirmative steps to expose and eradicate the practice of critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) throughout the Treasury Department.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.708 Apr 1, 2023

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