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Chris Stein in Washington

‘Very retaliatory’: the federal workers caught up in Trump’s DEI purge

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Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Jeremy Wood thought he was safe from the shuttering of federal government diversity initiatives that he expected to start as soon as Donald Trump was sworn in.

A Raleigh, North Carolina-based career civil servant in the US agriculture department, Wood had been among those tasked with implementing policies ordered by Joe Biden to curtail discrimination on the basis of race, sexual orientation and gender identity in the federal government.

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