9. Agency for International Development · Notable
Eliminate USAID's Chief Diversity Officer position, DEI advisers, and committees
Printed page 258 9. Agency for International Development
“The next conservative Administration should dismantle USAID’s DEI apparatus by eliminating the Chief Diversity Officer position along with the DEI advisers and committees; cancel the DEI scorecard and dashboard; remove DEI requirements from contract and grant tenders and awards; issue a directive to cease promotion of the DEI agenda, including the bullying LGBTQ+ agenda; and provide staff a confidential medium through which to adjudicate cases of political retaliation that agency or implementing staff suffered during the Biden Administration.”
What has happened
- Done
The positions, advisers and committees went with the agency: USAID ceased implementing foreign assistance on 2025-07-01 and its bureaus, offices and missions were dissolved. USAID's DEI apparatus is described in the past tense in a Primary allowlisted record: the preamble to State's Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance rule recites that "[u]nder the previous administration, USAID issued DEI strategic action plans, installed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) advisers and DEI committees 'in all of its bureaus, offices, and [overseas] missions,' and monitored compliance with 'an agency-wide dashboard and DEI scorecard for all bureaus, offices, and missions'."
- Secretary Rubio, "Making Foreign Aid Great Again" (State Department Spanish translation): as of July 1 USAID officially ceases to implement foreign assistance
- State Department final rule: Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance Rules
- Executive Order 14151 - Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
- Attempted
Executive Order 14151 directed every agency head, within 60 days, to terminate to the maximum extent allowed by law all DEI and DEIA offices and positions - naming "Chief Diversity Officer" positions explicitly - together with all equity action plans, equity initiatives and DEI performance requirements, and to give OMB an inventory of every DEI position and committee in existence on 2024-11-04.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- The recital in the 2026-01-27 rule is what converts “the agency closed” into evidence that this specific apparatus is gone: State describes the advisers, committees, dashboard and scorecard as things the previous administration had, in a rule written to replace them.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- USAID Chief Diversity Officer position, DEI advisers and committees
- ID
- 652