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| - Trump has revoked a 1965 presidential executive order — not an act/law — titled "Equal Employment Opportunity," which imposed nondiscrimination and affirmative action requirements on businesses with government contracts. There's no such thing, as some social media users claim, as the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965.
Amid U.S. President Donald Trump's slew of executive orders in the days after his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, claims (archived) circulated that the president had revoked the supposed Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965.
A popular version of the claim read:
Trump revoked the Equal Employment Opportunity Act which prohibited discrimination in hiring and employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And now he's essentially planning on firing anyone working in the federal government who isn't a white male. Great job non-white male Trump voters. Great f**king job.
Snopes readers also got in touch to ask whether Trump had revoked the act. The claim spread from a post by PopCrave (archived), a celebrity news media outlet. The post's graphic correctly identified Executive Order 11246, also titled "Equal Employment Opportunity,"
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965 mentioned in claims does not exist. As part of an executive order titled: "Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity," Trump revoked Executive Order 11246, also titled, "Equal Employment Opportunity." Then-U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246 in 1965. It imposed nondiscrimination and affirmative action requirements on businesses with government contracts. Many claims mistakenly identified the executive order as an act. However, executive orders are not acts, a term used in government for laws that the president has signed.
Trump signed several orders, including "Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity," on Jan. 20 and 21. The order addresses language that Trump said had made "influential institutions of American society" forced to implement:
... dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) or "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility" (DEIA) that can violate the civil-rights laws of this Nation.
Trump's order terminated several past executive orders in the name of "terminating illegal discrimination" in the federal government, including E
Executive Order 11246 imposed nondiscrimination and affirmative action requirements on businesses (contractors) working with the federal government. For example, the order states:
The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Revoking E
(A) Promoting "diversity";
(B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking "affirmative action"; and
(C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.
Trump's executive order said that federal contractors had 90 days from Jan. 20 to cease Executive Order 11246 practices in their businesses.
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