Trump administration to pause federal government websites in effort to eliminate DEI, anti-Trump content

A Trump administration official told Fox News Digital that federal government websites went dark at around 5:00 p.m. Friday evening. The websites are now back up and running. 

The purpose was to remove content that is "anti-Trump administration" and against the president's agenda. 

The president also signed an order making it "the official policy of the U.S. government to only recognize two genders: male and female."

Trump issued two other executive actions last week targeting DEI - an executive order to end discrimination in the workplace and higher education through race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of DEI, and a memo to eliminate a Biden administration policy that prioritized DEI hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration.

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