The newly appointed chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has swiftly moved to dismantle diversity initiatives at the agency, calling them a 'scourge'. He has closed the FTC's DEI office and dissolved its diversity council, prompting criticism from fellow commissioners and concerns over the impact on agency operations.
The new chair of the Federal Trade Commission has moved without delay to fulfill President Donald Trump ’s goal of” at the agency, calling the diversity efforts “a scourge on our institutions.” He shuttered the commission’s DEI office and terminated its diversity council, among other quick moves.“The Biden -Harris Administration reveled in this pernicious ideology. They encouraged it, and it has festered within the federal government for four years,” Ferguson said in a statement.
He went on, “I have met with corn growers and cattlemen in Iowa. I have met with shrimpers in Biloxi. I have met with pharmacists in Knoxville, grocers in Tulsa, and patients and their doctors in Charleston, West Virginia. I met with the men who build Miami’s million-dollar skyscrapers in 110-degree heat.”Bedoya wrote that Ferguson was playing “a game for retweets on X – the kind of stunt that infuriates regular people who cannot make rent.
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