Trump targets DEI and civil service protections, striking fear in some federal workers

President Donald Trump is targeting federal employees who focus on diversity, equity and inclusion and career policy staffers as he follows through on campaign promises to exert more control over the federal bureaucracy.

The moves, just days into his new administration, go after programs he’s long attacked and civil servants whom he feels blocked some of his key initiatives in his first term. But they’ve struck fear in federal workers and the unions that represent them, with employees worried about their jobs and their ability to carry out the missions that lured them into public service.