The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board's contracts with BlackRock and SSGA to oversee a federal retirement program contain DEI mandates that are at odds with Trump's agenda.
A little-known federal office spent decades investigating potential discrimination by government contractors — until it was stopped by the Trump administration.
President Trump touted to raucous Republican applause during his State of the Union address this week that "We ended DEI in America." - A year into Trump's crusade to eradicate "anti-white racism ," some of the administration's most ambitious diversity, equity and inclusion rollbacks are stalled in court. Why it matters: With Congress aligned with the White House, the judiciary has become the primary check for civil rights advocates who argue the administration is distorting long-standing equity laws. - DEI policies are "being used as a sword, not a shield," Leah Watson, an ACLU racial justice program attorney, tells Axios. The intrigue: DEI policies are intentionally broad to repair decades of discrimination, but the administration…