Cleaning out the closet of Biden’s former federal government was never going to be easy, but the second Trump administration is going the distance to ensure that left-leaning agency heads can’t hide their DEI directors and directives beneath the shuffling of coded words or programs.
One of the 47th president’s first executive orders effectively mandated the firing of all diversity, equity, and inclusion officers across the federal government, to then be followed by the shuttering of their departments. But even in corners of the bureaucracy where MAGA might not expect DEI to thrive, it has.
That’s the conclusion of a probe of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, whose legacy leadership tried to conceal the mission of its chief diversity officer by quietly changing the individual’s title and hoping no one would notice. Lisa T. Boykin, who had been on the job at least since March of 2023, suddenly saw her CDO title replaced with the bland designation of “Senior Executive.”
However, online sleuths uncovered a press release from March 31, 2023, in which Boykin is quoted as the ATF chief diversity officer stressing the importance of “strategic hiring initiatives” that critics say eliminate a fairer, merit-based system of government hiring.
“ATF’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion has been long standing in the law enforcement community,” Boykin said at the time. “In support of President Biden’s Executive Order on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce, ATF has deepened its commitment to being a model employer in support of our strategic hiring initiatives around recruitment, retention and career development.” […]
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