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Every American has interest in this effort

Biden administration created new offices like one dedicated to civil rights and environmental justice at the Environmental Protection Agency

Orders on diversity and gender fit within Trump’s larger goal of bringing back American values as laid out in a White House statement on Monday on the president’s early priorities

Trump touched on the theme in his address again raising a recent promise to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America and proposing to officially rename North America’s tallest peak Mount McKinley after its name had been changed to Denali its Alaska Native name under President Barack Obama in 2015

Trump’s order specifically targets Biden’s environmental justice office and personnel for review

Orders were widely seen as cornerstones of Biden’s civil rights legacy and infused policy efforts across his administration

Erica L Green is a White House correspondent covering President Trump and his administration

Biden’s efforts including Title IX rules and an Agriculture Department program designed to provide disaster relief to minority farmers ran into legal roadblocks after critics contended that by aiding one group of people they inherently harmed others

Trump official said it was fitting that the administration was taking measures on the King holiday to reinstitute equal treatment by eliminating racial preferences and diversity programming

Zach Montague is a Times reporter covering the US Department of Education the White House and federal courts

Biden ordered agencies to take sweeping steps to address inequity in housing criminal justice voting rights health care education and economic mobility

Linda McMahon met with senators at the Capitol in December

Trump said all of this will change starting today and it will change very quickly

Order directs his attorney general to release guidance stating that a Supreme Court decision in 2020 that cemented stronger civil rights protections to transgender workers does not apply to schools and their students echoing a ruling by a federal judge earlier this month

Trump railed against efforts to teach children about slavery and his conservative allies supported the movement to remove books about race and gender from school libraries in his previous administration

Trump indicated on Monday that the enforcement power of the Education Department would be critical to bringing change to the nation’s schools

His actions on Monday are also aimed at bringing back biological truth to federal government according to a Trump official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the orders before they were signed

On first day of his presidency in 2021 Mr Biden took an essentially opposite position directing agencies to include sexual orientation and gender identity in any regulations and policies covering workplace discrimination formalizing protections for LGBTQ workers

Order also prohibits use of federal funds for promoting gender ideology through grants or other government programming as well as use of public funding for transition related medical procedures in prisons

He extended those directions to schools and students last year