Dismantle DEI Act of 2025

Summary#

This bill, titled the Dismantle DEI Act of 2025, would ban a wide range of federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities. It defines a "prohibited diversity, equity, or inclusion practice" and bars federal agencies, contractors, grantees, accrediting bodies, and advisory committees from maintaining DEI offices, hiring chief diversity officers, requiring DEI-related training, or using federal funds for many DEI programs. The bill rescinds several named Executive Orders and national security memoranda related to equity and LGBTQ+ rights. It requires agency closures of DEI offices, changes personnel rules so employees cannot be punished for refusing DEI training, and adds contract, grant, and cooperative-agreement terms that forbid use of federal funds for specified DEI activities. The bill also amends education accreditation standards, removes certain DEI-related offices in financial regulators and the Department of Defense, and applies to advisory committees. It creates a private right of action allowing people to sue for violations and authorizes monetary awards, attorney fees, and other relief.

What it means for you#

• Federal employees: Agencies would have to close DEI offices and could not require employees to take or assent to certain DEI training. Personnel decisions could not be based on refusing such training.
• Federal contractors and grant recipients: Federal funds could not be used to maintain DEI offices, hire chief diversity officers, or develop or buy many DEI-related training courses. Contract and grant agreements would need terms that forbid these uses of federal funds.
• Colleges and accrediting bodies: Accreditation standards could not require institutions to engage in the prohibited DEI practices named in the bill.
• Advisory committees and boards: Federal advisory committees would be barred from implementing prohibited DEI practices, and courts or agency officials could order termination of committees that violate the rule.
• Agencies named (Defense, Homeland Security, financial regulators, intelligence): Specific DEI programs, reporting requirements, or offices listed in the bill would be repealed or removed.

Expenses#

No publicly available information.

Proponents' View#

The bill text and title state the goal is to "ensure equal protection of the law" and "prevent racism in the Federal Government." Sponsors direct agencies to end programs and training they characterize as asserting inherent or systemic superiority or inferiority of groups and to prohibit use of federal funds for those programs.

Opponents' View#

No publicly available information.