Feb. 4 (Day 16) | A federal judge temporarily blocks moving transgender women to men’s prisons and ending their medical care. Trump had signed an executive order “defending women from gender ideology extremism” on his first day. Despite multiple court rulings blocking the transfer, incarcerated trans women were transferred anyway. | More ›
March 7 (Day 47) | Pentagon flags 26,000 photos and online posts to be removed from because they were flagged as “DEI.” The vast majority of the purges were of women and minorities. | More ›
March 14 (Day 54) | Arlington Cemetery’s website scrubs links of Black and female veterans, later restoring some and attributing the removals to mistakes implementing the administration’s anti-DEI policies. A Black Medal of Honor recipient’s page taken down, the URL changed to say “deimedal.” | More ›
March 18 (Day 58) | A federal judge issues a temporary injunction, halting Trump’s ban on people who are transgender in the military. | More ›
March 19 (Day 59) | Trump suspends $175 million to the University of Pennsylvania because of trans athletes policy. | More ›
March 19 (Day 59) | Many of the erased images and websites are being put back up, as agencies figure out what compliance with Trump’s executive orders means, including a page with Jackie Robinson’s Army tenure and Navajo Code Talkers after public outcry. | More ›
March 31 (Day 71) | Harvard rejects Trump’s demands tying federal funding to eliminating DEI programs. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a letter to students and staff. Some $9 billion is at stake. By the evening, the administration froze $2 billion in funding. Trump threatens to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status. | More ›
April 2 (Day 73) | Photos of women and minorities are covered up at the National Cryptologic Museum. After public outcry, they were uncovered at the museum. An FBI wall of diversity values is painted over. | More ›
April 3 (Day 74) | The Trump administration warns states to end what it sees as DEI policies or not receive federal school funding. Title I funding is used to help schools with low-income students. “The use of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (’DEI’) programs to advantage one’s race over another — is impermissible,” the letter states. | More ›
April 4 (Day 75) | By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court allows the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities, including $65 million in teacher training. | More ›
April 15 (Day 86) | NPR reports that the Army has moved to target books perceived to be dealing with DEI and “gender ideology” for removal from libraries. The Naval Academy also was told to remove books. | More ›
April 16 (Day 87) | The Justice Department sues Maine for allowing transgender student athletes to play in girls’ and women’s school sports — a policy that the administration says disregards President Trump’s executive order aiming to ban that access. | More ›