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By the end of Wednesday, heads of departments and agencies must start taking action to close all diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and put government employees working in those offices on paid leave, according to a notification from the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

The sites went down a day after the Office of Personnel Management sent a memo to all agencies Tuesday calling for all DEI workers to be placed on paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered that all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. It also moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting.