Though President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, has seemingly gutted racial equity for the foreseeable future throughout the federal government (with a snowball effect in the private sector), Democrats continue to push back.
Party members have vowed to keep fighting for critical programs that Black and brown communities rely on and, more importantly, to call for the enforcement of the law that still prohibits discrimination.
“No president in the United States of America can change the constitution or change law — like the 1964 Civil Rights Act … through executive action or executive order,” said House of Representatives Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said on Thursday during his weekly press conference. He vowed that Democrats would take the attacks on DEI “head-on” along with civil rights groups.
Jeffries, the first Black American to serve as leader of any national party in Congress, said he expects there to …