What is DEI and why is Trump trying to get rid of it?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Such initiatives are aimed at addressing longstanding structural racism and sexism by promoting opportunities in the workplace for women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people and other under-represented groups.
47% : The latest order will update "all Department of Defense medical standards to ensure they prioritise readiness and lethality," according to NBC.
45% : The order also reinstates military personnel who were stood down for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations during the pandemic.
43% : It follows the president's wider scrapping of DEI programs in federal government departments in an executive order he signed shortly after being inaugurated on January 20. DEI laws and programs have been under attack for years by Republicans who contend that the measures threaten merit-based hiring and promotion opportunities for white people, specifically men.
38% : Trump has called the programmes "discrimination" and insisted on restoring strictly "merit-based" hiring.
38% : "We're not entirely sure yet what will happen as the order hasn't come out, but if we look back at what happened in 2017, we know that Donald Trump issued an order to the secretary of defence to go ahead and start the process of removing transgender service members," she said.
19% : Trump banned transgender people from joining the miliary back in 2017, arguing that transgender service members cost too much.

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