All federal employees in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) offices will need to be placed on paid administrative leave "effective immediately," according to a memo from the Trump Administration on Tuesday. The memo, from Charles Ezell, the acting director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, directs department heads to inform employees by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday that they are being placed on paid leave due to the closure of the offices and warns them against attempting to "disguise" DEI programs in light of Trump's ban.

One day after signing an executive order ending all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government, the Trump administration is ordering all federal employees involved in such roles to be placed on paid leave by Wednesday evening. The announcement was made in a memo from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, according to NBC News. The executive order, "Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing," was one of the dozens signed by President Trump on Monday. “President Trump campaigned on ending the scourge of DEI from our federal government and returning America to a merit based society where people are hired based on their skills, not for the color of their skin," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Tuesday night. "This is another win for Americans of all races, religions, and creeds. Promises made, promises kept.”

The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered all federal employees working on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to be placed on paid leave as government agencies work to shutter DEI offices. The Office of Personnel Management — the government’s top human resources agency – notified federal department heads in a memo that DEI program employees must be notified by 5 p.m. Wednesday that their administrative leave is “effective immediately.” The memo further directs federal agencies to take down all “outward facing media” – such as webpages and social media accounts – focused on DEI programs, cancel all employee diversity trainings and terminate any DEI-related contracts by the same deadline OPM also asked agency heads to ask “employees if they know of any efforts to disguise” DEI programs with “coded or imprecise language,” and to report back their findings on attempts to obfuscate the initiatives by Jan. 31.