Protect the Access Programs Behind the DEI Label

Anti-DEI orders are framed as ending ideology, but they also ended outreach to disabled, women, and LGBTQ veterans.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 25, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) What diversity, equity, and inclusion programs do, and the push to ban them

The Letter

Subject Protect the Access Programs Behind the DEI Label

When people hear "DEI," they picture a slogan. What got cut in 2025 were services, like outreach to disabled veterans, women veterans, and LGBTQ veterans.

In January 2025, the Department of Veterans Affairs shut down its $14 million DEI initiative under Executive Order 14151 and put up to 60 employees on paid leave. In February 2026, a federal appeals judge wrote that the record in the challenge to that order suggested "important programs terminated by keyword."

Some of that work is required by law. Federal agencies must still accommodate disabled workers, and veterans' hiring preference is written into statute.

I am asking you to press federal agencies, in writing, to list every program they ended under Executive Order 14151, and to restore any that federal law requires.

Please find out what was cut, and put back what the law requires.

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I'm calling to ask the Representative to press federal agencies for a list of every program they ended under Executive Order 14151.
The VA shut down its $14 million DEI initiative in January 2025, including outreach to disabled, women, and LGBTQ veterans, and put up to 60 employees on leave.
A federal appeals judge wrote that the record suggested important programs were terminated by keyword. Some of that work, like accommodating disabled workers, is required by law.
Please ask the agencies in writing what they cut, and restore anything the law requires. Thank you.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

34 anti-DEI higher-education bills had become law since 2023, as of July 9, 2026 (source)
311 full- and part-time positions eliminated across the Texas UT System under SB 17 (source)
60 VA employees, at most, put on paid leave when the VA's $14 million DEI initiative ended (source)

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