Sen. Cruz Exposes Government Contractor Disguising DEI Offices: ‘THAT ENDS NOW!’

Craig Bannister | January 24, 2025
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“THAT ENDS NOW!” Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) declared Friday, announcing that he has discovered an agency contractor is attempting to furtively violate President Donald Trump’s executive orders by changing the name of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) offices.

“My office has been alerted about an agency contractor attempting to obscure its DEI offices and programming in direct violation of the Trump administration’s executive orders,” Sen. Cruz wrote in a social media post, citing Monday’s executive order ending all government DEI offices and affiliations with DEI-activist contractors.

Cruz posted a letter by a contractor’s Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer to the staff, detailing the scheme to disguise two DEI offices and a position by renaming them. The names of both the organization and the officer are redacted in Cruz’s post.

“We want to assure everyone that the heart of what our offices do remains the same,” the DEI Officer writes, announcing the “plan to reframe our work and rebrand our offices.”

“Diversity,” “equity” and “inclusion” are being replaced with “access,” “culture” and “opportunity,” the letter explains:

  • “ODEI will be known as the Office of Access, Culture and Opportunity (OACO).”
  • “DEI will be known as Collaborative Opportunities for Research Engagement (CORE) Office.”
  • “The DEI Lead will be known as the Access, Culture and Opportunity Lead.”

 

“For the past four years, Democrats mandated that all taxpayer-funded scientific research and development (R&D) must incorporate DEI values,” Cruz writes, promising that “THAT ENDS NOW!”

“I stand committed to working with the Trump administration to root out the harmful discriminatory DEI activities throughout the government,” Cruz says.

The contractor’s ploy is redolent of that of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) movement, where many ESG activists have begun to rename ESG now that the public is beginning to discover its true nature and consequences.

Trump’s executive order is part of a broader initiative to return America to a merit-based system and away from identity-based preferences.

Read the full letter in Cruz’s post below.