The White House issued a new Executive Order on January 20, 2025, titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing”. In this order, there is a critique of policies and programs that serve deaf and hard of hearing people. The most noteworthy (and significant) passages in this Executive…
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The OMB issued a memo to all departments to freeze all Federal grant funding. Memo here: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/b0c025ff-full.pdf The list of programs impacted is here: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-ad9c-de9c-a5b6-efbd29400000 These are some of the grant programs that directly impact disabled, deaf, and hard of hearing people: Dept of Education: Training Interpreters for Individuals who…
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The National Council of Non-Profits, along with a few other plaintiffs, successfully filed to stop the White House freeze on Federal grant funding. Filing here: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Final-OMB-Freeze-Memo-Complaint-1.28.25-2.pdf
Great article by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), on how to adjust your DEI Initiatives under the new White House Guidelines: https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/how-to-adjust-dei-initiatives-under-trumps-new-guidelines
Article from the American Association of People with Disabilities: What is the federal funding pause What does this freeze mean for disabled people? Are there other programs for disabled Americans that might be affected by this? The lists of programs and organizations provided by AAPD conflict with other information I…
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