DOGE helps State Department eliminate Biden admin's DEI performance evaluation requirement

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the State Department called retired practices nether the Biden medication that required diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts to relationship for 20% of show evaluations for overseas work officers.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the reforms of the Biden administration’s DEI policies "important and historic."

"Now our unthinkable Foreign Service Officers volition beryllium evaluated connected existent merit, not connected arbitrary immutable characteristics," helium wrote connected X.

Rubio shared a station from DOGE, which noted that nether the policy, diplomats were assessed connected whether they avoided "gendered adjectives" oregon "faint praise."

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The section shared PowerPoint slides providing examples of phrases to avoid.

One of the slides gave descriptive phrases that tin unintentionally power a reader. It past gave examples of gendered adjectives like, "Dr. Sarah Gray is simply a caring compassionate physician" vs. "Dr. Joel Gray has been precise palmy with his patients."

Faint praise was besides discouraged. One illustration the descent provided was, "S/he worked hard connected projects that s/he was assigned" oregon "S/he has ne'er had temper tantrums."

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The State Department eliminated DEI requirements from show evaluations of Foreign Service Officers.

The slides discouraged utilizing archetypal names for women oregon minorities and titles for men, arsenic well.

Additionally, arsenic DOGE pointed retired successful its post, the slides asked section organizations to beforehand diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) programs, grooming and lectures arsenic good arsenic yearly DEIA awards ceremonies.

The overseas work officers were besides encouraged to acceptable contention and sex quotas connected embassy speaking panels and different diplomatic events.

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"Working with DOGE, [Secretary Rubio] has ended this favoritism and restored merit to the overseas service," DOGE wrote.

The elimination of the DEIA request connected show evaluations for overseas work officers comes a week aft the Trump medication slashed $15 cardinal from the Institute of Museum and Library Services successful the signifier of DEI grants to align with DOGE and President Donald Trump’s enforcement orders aimed astatine eliminating DEI from the national government.

The grants see $6.7 cardinal to the California State Library to heighten equitable room programs and $4 cardinal to the Washington State Library for divers unit improvement and incarcerated support. 

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A $1.5M DEI assistance to the Connecticut State Library strategy to "integrate societal justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion" into their regular operations is besides being chopped on with $700,000 for a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit to survey "post-pandemic DEI practices" successful American children’s museums that would formulate "enhanced equity-focused strategies."

Trump's DOGE efforts person saved the American payer $140 billion, according to its website, which represents astir $870 saved per taxpayer.

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The Trump medication says it has slashed hundreds of millions of dollars successful DEI contracts, including at slightest $100 million astatine the Department of Education.

Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.