Diane Lim hadn’t even finished putting together her team at the Treasury Department’s Equity Hub before she got the notice from the Trump administration forcing her group to go on administrative leave within days of the January inauguration.
The Treasury Equity Hub is one casualty of President Donald Trump’s executive order to end federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and eliminating it means there’s one less group of people working to end racial bias in audits—a problem researchers uncovered in 2023 that alarmed congressional Democrats. Trump’s sweeping executive order likely stalled efforts to fix that bias, which might perpetuate an ...
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