The Federal Bureaucracy Helped Build DEI’s Infrastructure. A New Rule Seeks to Change That.
20th August 2026
A federal regulation intended to combat workplace racial discrimination has become a weapon for the race-obsessed diversity, equity, and inclusion movement—but President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to get rid of it.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, has required specific employers to file an annual report summarizing data on their employees’ race and sex. The regulations currently apply to more than two million employers, at an estimated cost of $275 million each year and $4 million for the agency to administer the data collection.
While the government required this data collection to prevent racial discrimination, it has arguably undermined the key goal of securing a colorblind workplace.
EEOC Chair Andrea R. Lucas said in July that the reports require data collection “disconnected from any allegation of a Title VII violation or related commission enforcement proceeding,” and thus “stand in direct tension with Title VII’s requirement that employment practices be colorblind.”