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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Léonie Chao-Fong

Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias’

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Donald Trump signed an executive order within weeks of his second term aimed at ending the ‘anti-Christian weaponization of government’. Photograph: Montgomery Martin/Alamy

The veterans affairs department (VA) is ordering staff to report colleagues for instances of “anti-Christian bias” to a newly established taskforce, as part of Donald Trump’s push to reshape government policy on religious expression.

The VA secretary, Doug Collins, in an internal email seen by the Guardian, said the department had launched a taskforce to review the Biden administration’s “treatment of Christians”.

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