The president's appointment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is already being called "dangerous."

The move Tuesday followed a related executive order from Trump accusing former President Joe Biden of forcing “discrimination” programs into “virtually all aspects of the federal government” through “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs, known as DEI.

Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Agencies were told to make plans for layoffs.

President Trump’s plan to unravel diversity, equity and inclusion efforts began taking shape on Wednesday with an order closing such programs within federal agencies and placing all staff working on those programs on paid leave.

President Donald Trump targeted federal workers in an opening act aimed at exerting political control over a sprawling bureaucracy — putting federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees on leave,

The Trump administration is ordering all federal employees in diversity, equity and inclusion roles placed on paid leave by Wednesday evening, according to a new memo from the Office of Personnel Management.