Trump campaign against diversity urges government employees to turn informer; Reuters, January 22, 2025

  Daniel Trotta,  Andrea Shalal and Bianca Flowers, Reuters ; Trump campaign against diversity urges government employees to turn informer

"The Trump administration on Wednesday urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programs.

The latest escalation in U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) comes a day after he pressured the private sector to join the initiative and told government employees in offices administering such programs they would be placed on paid leave."

Some governors have been leading the way. Others, not so much.; The Washington Post, March 20, 2020

Editorial Board, The Washington Post; Some governors have been leading the way. Others, not so much.

"WHEN NEW YORK and Oregon sent urgent appeals to the federal government for N95 masks, which protect against coronavirus, days passed this month before they finally received shipments — of devices well past their expiration date and therefore useless for surgery and other acute-care settings. That drove home the increasingly clear point that the burden is on states to compensate for the federal government’s sluggish response to the gravest public health crisis in a century.

Some governors have been quick to take that lesson and run with it; others much less so."