Trump Plans a Flurry of Executive Actions at the Pentagon Banning DEI, Transgender Servicemembers

The new secretary of defense said Monday that additional executive actions are on the way.

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Defense Secretary Hegseth wants to rename Fort Liberty in North Carolina for Private First Class Roland Bragg. AP/Kevin Wolf

President Trump will soon sign more executive orders to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion programs — among other things — at the Department of Defense, delivering on a promise to eliminate “wokeness” from the federal government entirely. The goal is to focus the Pentagon to its core mission of “lethality,” as the new secretary of defense likes to say. 

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