Pepsi Rolling Back Diversity Initiatives -- Here Are All The Companies Cutting DEI Programs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed DEI at Davos, stating companies are "pulling back from DEI and I welcome that" because Americans "don't want to be a label.
47% : During his inaugural address, Trump vowed he would "end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life," stating he would "forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based."
46% : Trump also signed an executive order eliminating DEI offices and policies within the military, Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security, which he considered to be "race-based and sex-based discrimination," and in a separate executive order, effectively reinstated his 2017 ban on transgender troops, banning "identification-based pronoun usage" and prohibiting troops assigned male at birth from using women's bathing or sleeping facilities.
41% : Many Republican-controlled state legislatures took action against DEI in 2024, with several states, including Alabama, Iowa and Utah banning DEI at public colleges and universities.
32% : Trump's executive order directs federal government agencies to no longer consider diversity in hiring and revise employee training programs to gut DEI training.
27% : Several business leaders addressed diversity, equity and inclusion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, while Trump railed against it in his speech.
26% : In his executive order, Trump slammed the "infiltration" of the federal government with DEI programs, citing an executive order former President Joe Biden issued on his first day in office that directed federal agencies to address racial inequities.
24% : In his address, Trump said his administration is moving to "abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion nonsense" in both the government and the private sector, and said the United States will become a "merit-based country."

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