'Unlawful DEI-motivated' workplace discrimination to be rooted out by Trump's new acting EEOC chair

"Consistent with the President's Executive Orders and priorities, my priorities will include rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination; protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination; defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women's rights to single-sex spaces at work; protecting workers from religious bias and harassment, including antisemitism; and remedying other areas of recent under-enforcement," Andrea Lucas said in a press release provided to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. 

Lucas was appointed to the EEOC as a commissioner in 2020 under the first Trump administration and has served in the role since. The EEOC is the federal government's only agency authorized to investigate and sue private companies and employers over employment discrimination. 

Trump signed a bevy of executive actions and orders on Monday after he was sworn in as the nation's 47th president, including ones related to diversity, equity and inclusion, better known as DEI programs.

"That ends today," the executive order reads. "Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great." 

"Our employment civil rights laws are a matter of individual rights," Lucas said. "We must reject the twin lies of identity politics: that justice is measured by group outcomes and that civil rights exist solely to remedy harms against certain groups." 

"I intend to dispel the notion that only the 'right sort of' charging party is welcome through our doors and to reinforce instead the fundamental belief enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and our civil rights laws-that all people are 'created equal.' I am committed to ensuring equal justice under the law and to focusing on equal opportunity, merit, and colorblind equality."