Diversity and inclusion training efforts by federal construction-sector contractors—in limbo since a Trump administration executive order last fall mandated new content standards and threatened contract loss for noncompliance—now can proceed, with President Joe Biden’s move last week to revoke that directive and a late 2020 federal court ruling that enjoined its enforcement.
Biden included the order, which had applied to federal agencies, contractors and grantees, among other Trump edicts the new president quashed on Jan. 20, describing it as “damaging.”