Since President Trump signed an EO to rid the government of DEI programs, the administration says 395 workers have been placed on leave and around $420 million in related contracts have been canceled.

Agencies should aim for a 30-day deadline to implement Trump’s return-to-office executive order, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.

In addition, the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, announced on X (formerly Twitter) Friday that approximately $420 million in current and impending contracts—primarily focused on DEI initiatives—had been canceled, Fox added.

During an unscheduled stop on the casino floor at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday, Donald Trump said he might terminate the contracts of thousands of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workers, reviving debunked claims that the agency has hired 88,000 enforcement agents to go after taxpayers in the past few years.

Sources said the White House has discussed testing a message system where President Donald Trump could message the federal government's 2 million civilian employees.

Longtime federal workers say they have become pawns in a battle for political control, that their DEI work is misunderstood and that they are under surveillance.

A new Office of Personnel Management memo also tells agencies to determine whether or not the new federal hires should be retained at the agency.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 20 aimed at dismantling all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government. The order mandated the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to collaborate with federal agencies to terminate DEI programs.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is testing a new capability that would allow officials to email the entire federal government workforce from a single email address, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said in a statement Friday.

Federal DEI hires had to know what was coming when President Donald Trump began his historic second term on Monday by rescinding the Executive Order that President Biden started his term in 2021 with—one that ordered the promotion of racial preferences throughout his administration.

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.

Donald Trump’s administration issued a 90-day pause on all foreign aid, with exceptions for Israel and Egypt, according to a new State Department memo Friday.