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'DEI Is Dead Under the Trump Administration': Cabinet Secretaries Mark the First Thirty Days, Feb. 21, 2025

February 21, 2025 · The White House · 0:01:55

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What happened

HUD Secretary Scott Turner opens the White House montage, saying, as he stated it, that it has been a phenomenal first thirty days serving in the Trump-Vance administration and that DEI at HUD is dead and gone — and, as he stated it, DEI is dead at the VA, dead at the EPA, and killed at the Department of Energy, with meritocracy, as he put it, being brought back. Turner said, as he stated it, that one of the first actions taken was to take down the Biden-era Equal Access Rule to restore, as he put it, biological truth at HUD as it pertains to HUD-funded facilities such as women’s shelters, as he stated it, and that HUD has partnered with DOGE, launched a DOGE Task Force at HUD, and already identified $260 million in savings for the American people, as he stated it.

The Energy secretary’s portion says, as stated in the clip, that at the Energy Department the focus is on adding energy, not subtracting energy, in contrast to the prior administration’s agenda, as stated in the montage. The VA secretary’s portion says, as stated in the clip, that the department found its mission — taking care of veterans as the first priority, reorganizing to that end, and being smart with taxpayer dollars, as stated in the montage. The EPA portion says, as stated in the clip, that the agency has been leading the way in California, where the President gave it thirty days to complete a hazardous material response, as stated in the montage.

Why it matters

The montage is the cabinet’s own thirty-day report on the DEI rollback — agency by agency, in the secretaries’ own words — including the first specific savings figure attached to HUD’s DOGE task force.

Scoreboard watch

Secretary Turner’s figure in this montage — $260 million in savings already identified by HUD’s DOGE Task Force, as he stated it — is a checkable claim against the department’s reported savings. Flagged as a scoreboard candidate for the editor; no verdict is published from this page.

Sources: The White House, “DEI is Dead Under the Trump Administration”, 2025-02-21 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-02-21). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.