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Hey, what's news, listeners?
It's Sunday, February 2nd.
I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and this is what's News Sunday,
the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching
out to our colleagues across the news to help explain what's happening in our world.
And this week, we'll look at how President Trump's bid to stamp out diversity,
equity and inclusion efforts within the US Government are rippling across American corporations.
And we'll also discuss what changes might be coming to your workplace as a result.
Alright,
let's get right to didn't take long for President Trump to take an axe
to DEI programs within the government when he took office last month,
as just hours after his inaug inauguration,
he signed an executive order that described DEI efforts pursued by President Biden as illegal and immoral.
That order also characterized those programs as having infiltrated the government across nearly every federal agency
and in the process demonstrating immense public waste and shameful discrimination.
In a few minutes, we'll speak to Wall Street Journal on the Clock columnist Callum Borchers.
But first I'm joined by Journal reporter Lauren Weber,