The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been accused of allegedly quietly altering the job title of its former variety officer as President Donald Trump ordered all federal variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI) staff be positioned on paid depart.
“The ATF defied @realDonaldTrump’s order to place DEI workers on leave, instead giving their DEI officer a new title. They attack citizens’ rights, ignore leadership, and act as though they’re above the law. Enough is enough. Time to abolish the ATF!” Republican Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison posted to X.
The ATF, a federal regulation enforcement company beneath the Division of Justice’s umbrella, beforehand employed Lisa T. Boykin as its chief variety officer earlier than her title was modified on the ATF’s web site this week to “senior executive” with the ATF. An archived hyperlink of the ATF’s web site reviewed by Fox Digital reveals Boykin was listed because the chief variety officer as not too long ago as Tuesday – Trump’s second day within the Oval Workplace – and now reveals her as working because the company’s “senior executive.”
Trump had railed in opposition to DEI packages and workplaces on the federal stage, in addition to within the training system, all through his marketing campaign. Upon taking workplace on Monday, he inked an government order terminating ”illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.”
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President Donald Trump indicators government orders within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Picture by JIM WATSON/AFP through Getty Photos)
The next day, the Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM) instructed company and division leaders to start shutting down DEI workplaces and to position DEI staff on paid depart.
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Lisa T. Boykin’s official photograph for ATF. (ATF)
“Send a notification to all employees of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) offices that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/end all DEIA initiatives, offices and programs,” the OPM directive, which was obtained by Fox Information Digital, learn.
A biography for Boykin from 2023 detailed that she started working as ATF’s Human Sources Operations Division in 2016 and “as a collateral duty, in 2021, Mrs. Boykin also began serving as the Bureau’s Chief Diversity Officer,” the New York Put up reported.
“With the Bureau’s continued focus on enhancing DEIA, Mrs. Boykin currently assumes the work of the CDO in a fulltime capacity, leading and implementing departmental programs and mandates, while bringing renewed vision and effective strategies to maintain an informed DEIA culture for the Bureau,” Boykin’s bio added.
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When requested in regards to the title change and subsequent criticism on social media, an ATF spokesman responded that the company has adopted DEI directives from the Trump administration.
The ATF seal. (Picture by Ted Soqui/Corbis through Getty Photos)
“ATF began implementing OPM’s Initial Guidance on DEIA immediately after its issuance on January 21, 2025, in response to the President’s Executive Orders. We have proactively taken the necessary steps to ensure compliance with this guidance, including by placing impacted personnel on administrative leave,” an ATF spokesman instructed Fox Information Digital.
Fox Information Digital requested for clarification on whether or not Boykin’s new title protects her from administrative depart however didn’t instantly obtain a reply.
Fox Information Digital additionally reached out to Boykin on her ATF e-mail and acquired an automated response noting she was unavailable to answer.
“I am currently unavailable and unable to return e-mails at this time,” the e-mail learn.
Social media commenters and critics of the Biden administration’s variety initiatives slammed the ATF worker’s title change on social media, clamming the company is “circumventing” the Trump administration’s orders.
Biden championed variety initiatives beneath his administration, rolling again the primary Trump administration’s insurance policies that banned variety coaching in authorities businesses throughout his first week in workplace in 2021.
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“In the weeks ahead, I will be reaffirming the federal government’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and accessibility, building on the work we started in the Obama-Biden administration. That’s why I’m rescinding the previous administration’s harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training,” Biden mentioned in January of 2021. “Unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth, not ignorance and lies.”
