Donald Trump spent years raging against the Biden administration for elevating women and ethnic minorities into positions for which he said they were not qualified.
Now, a president who pledged to crack down on favouritism towards select groups in government is being accused of the same bias — in reverse.
At the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), a sub-agency of the Department of Education, staff say they are baffled by the crop of new political appointees entrusted with leading the agency’s fight against discrimination in public education.
“They’re just white, straight, male DEI hires,” a senior supervisor who recently left the agency told The Times. “The irony of all of this is that the same people in the front office at OCR are now the same political appointees who were screaming their heads off about DEI.”