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22. Department of the Treasury · Notable

Make DEI participation grounds for termination at Treasury

Not started

708 22. Department of the Treasury

“Treat the participation in any critical race theory or DEI initiative, without objecting on constitutional or moral grounds, as per se grounds for termination of employment.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    The record moved nearby and did not reach this ask. Executive Order 14151 abolished the jobs but did not make participation a firing offence. Section 2(b)(i) requires agency heads to terminate all DEI and DEIA offices and positions within sixty days, which ends the employment of people whose posts were those positions; section 2(a) bars federal employment practices and performance reviews from considering DEI or DEIA factors. Nothing in the order, in Office of Personnel Management guidance, or in any Treasury instrument makes participation in a critical race theory or DEI initiative per se grounds for termination of employment, which is what this Quote asks, and no Treasury implementation record was found.

Research log

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Research notes

The distinction the leveling turns on: abolishing a position removes the post-holder; the Quote asks that anyone who took part in such an initiative, without objecting on constitutional or moral grounds, be dismissed. The second is much wider than the first and no instrument adopts it.

Shares Executive Order 14151 with #1993 and #1994; each carries its own reading of what the order does and does not do for its own ask.

Re-leveled 2026-09-01 (ticket 26 phase 2, owner decision), attempted → not started. Four Recommendations on this printed page rested on Executive Order 14151 at the same rung. The order names the objects of #1993 and #1998 by function — the Counselor for Racial Equity, the Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, the DEIA office — and orders them terminated and inventoried. It does not name the object of this ask, and this item’s own note already said so: no instrument adopts a rule that participation is per se grounds for termination. The rung came from the shared instrument rather than from this item’s record, which is the same-instrument drift the lower-tier consistency review exists to catch, and the same correction made to #1994 on the day. Corrected in place under playbook §3b’s fourth rule — the date and the Primary Evidence stay and the note says the record moved nearby — because nothing new was found: the leveling moved, not the record. Logged on /corrections with reason: rule.

Action
other
Object
Treasury employees participating in CRT or DEI initiatives
ID
1996