Federal employees who left ‘DEI’ roles still fired under Trump administration purge, lawsuit claims

Federal employees who left ‘DEI’ roles still fired under Trump administration purge, lawsuit claims

Mahri Stainnak got the call the day after President Donald Trump took office: the Office of Personnel Management’s human resources office was putting them on administrative leave “effective immediately,” while the agency “investigates your radical and wasteful DEI activity.” Stainnak was surprised by the news. Before the Trump administration, they served as OPM’s deputy director of the governmentwide Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Ac…