According to a memo obtained by NBC News, the Defense Intelligence Agency ordered a pause of all activities and events related to 11 “special observances” in compliance with President Donald Trump’s ban on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs in the federal workplace.
In addition to Black History Month, the agency also ordered the suspension of events marking Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National American Indian Heritage Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, Women’s History Month, Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Why would the pentagon have any say in this? Or is it just within the defense agency? Either way, this feels like a waste of taxpayer money for them to be fighting about this instead of, well I dunno, maybe focusing on national defense…
It seems to apply to the Department of Defense. That’s the entire military infrastructure; Army, Navy, etc. That’s 2.1 million employees.