Restoring America's Fighting Force
Directs the Department of Defense to remove all DEI-related programs, training, and offices from the military. Requires a return to merit-based promotions and combat readiness as the sole criteria for military personnel decisions.
Section by Section
What each section does, and how they differ.
The order establishes that DEI programs and race and sex preferences in the military undermine merit, leadership, unit cohesion, and force readiness.
The Department of Defense and the Coast Guard will operate free from any preference based on race or sex.
DEI office means an office established to influence hiring based on race or sex outside color-blind and sex-neutral processes or provide special benefits based on race or sex.
DoD and DHS will abolish all DEI offices and related programs within their departments.
DoD will document all DEI initiatives and instances of race or sex discrimination within 90 days.
DoD and the military will not promote divisive concepts, gender ideology, or teachings that America's founding is racist or sexist.
DoD and DHS will issue implementation guidance within 30 days and report progress within 180 days.
Standard severability clause: if a court strikes any provision, the rest of the order stands.
Standard boilerplate: preserves existing agency authority, conditions the order on appropriations, and creates no enforceable private rights.