The Trump Administration has wasted no time in beginning to enforce Executive Order 14173, which instructs all federal agencies to enforce civil rights laws and combat illegal private sector diversity, equity, and inclusion activities.
The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into the DEI practices of Comcast Corporation and NBCUniversal. The FCC selected Comcast for review because of “substantial evidence that [Comcast is] still engaging in the promotion of DEI” and because the company covers a range of sectors regulated by the FCC, the FCC’s Chairman said in a February 11 letter. The letter seeks an “accounting of Comcast and NBCUniversal’s DEI initiatives, preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities—including DEI activities that are ongoing but may be operating today under different labels.”
E.O. 14173 directs the Attorney General to recommend by May 21 specific entities whose DEI practices should be investigated, but the FCC’s letter makes clear that enforcement agencies are not waiting to begin investigating companies’ DEI practices.
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