Trump's early agenda dismantles Civil Rights Act, advances Project 2025, activists say
Source: USA Today
Trump’s early agenda dismantles Civil Rights Act, advances Project 2025, activists say
President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil rights protections.
Deborah Barfield Berry
USA TODAY
May 4, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON ‒ In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has eliminated diversity initiatives across federal agencies, pushed to roll back provisions of the Civil Rights Act and fired some staffers working on civil rights issues.
The administration, some activists and civil rights experts said, has done more to undo decades of civil rights work than any other president in recent memory.
“The pace of unraveling … civil rights protections has been unlike anything I've seen in my lifetime," said Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center. “It is a reminder that we have to fight again and again for those critical protections."
Trump and some conservative scholars argue it was well past time to redirect the priorities of the federal Justice Department and push back against what they call the “woke" agenda.
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