Birmingham mayor discusses Trump’s executive order on DEI [Video]

Video above: Listen to part of Woodfin’s interviewBirmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin spoke on CNN Thursday, discussing President Donald Trump’s executive orders and his views on how they might impact the city. Trump signed executive orders Monday rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs within the federal government in what he described in his inauguration speech as a move to end efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.”>> WHAT TO KNOW: Executive orders signed by newly inaugurated Trump redefine federal gender policies Both are major shifts for the federal policy and are in line with Trump’s campaign promises.Alabama has had DEI laws in place before the executive order.”Americans are witnessing the Alabamafication of federal government,” Woodfin said in the interview. “We’ve seen in Alabama, legislators create laws to get rid of DEI and the governors signed …