How Trump Administration Is Executing A Massive Civil Rights Assault
The Trump administration is planning a massive assault on civil rights in the coming weeks. According to a new report, the Trump White House is planning to eliminate the Labor Department division that regulates discrimination by federal contractors.
The Labor Department division Trump plans to disband has policed discrimination for 40 years and is one of the several efforts by the Trump administration to curb programs that promote civil rights.
The Washington Post reported that “the move would fold the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, now home to 600 employees, into another government agency in the name of cost-cutting.”
The effort to dismantle the Labor Department’s compliance office mirrors the administration’s broader efforts of “reducing the role of the federal government in fighting discrimination and protecting minorities by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials unsympathetic to previous practices.”
Trump’s budget also calls for massive cuts to the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights which investigates discrimination complaints across the country. The Trump administration willingly acknowledges that the department would need to “scale back the number of investigations it conducts and limit travel to school districts to carry out its work.”
The new proposals follow up on several actions taken by the Trump administration that scale back Obama-era protections for the LGBT community.
You can read the full report by the Washington Post here.
