Federal agencies have been told to stop considering a company’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices when deciding whether to procure its goods or services, according to a General Services Administration (GSA) announcement on Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
The policy reverses a Biden administration initiative in which the government took into account a company’s internal DEI practices as one of numerous factors when deciding whether to buy that company’s products or services.
The GSA is also halting a federal attempt to replace plastic straws with paper ones in federal operations, changing the policy to adhere to an executive order signed last week by President Donald Trump.
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