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The Dismantle DEI Act purports “to prevent racism in the Federal Government.” It would prohibit government agencies from presenting any program or funding any initiative that “asserts that a particular race, color, ethnicity, religion, biological sex, or national origin is inherently or systemically superior or inferior, oppressive or oppressed, or privileged or unprivileged.”

Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court last year outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, conservative culture warriors have had corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in their crosshairs. As a result, many employers have begun rebranding and revising their DEI initiatives. Despite the backlash, the American public generally favors corporate DEI efforts, according to new polling by The Washington Post and Ipsos.

The employers facing lawsuits include companies from the retail, construction, restaurant, manufacturing, logistics and service industries. The lawsuits allege the employers failed to submit EEO-1 data in 2021 and 2022.

Republicans on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on May 29 issued a report accusing the Biden administration of “weaponizing” the White House’s executive authority over labor and employment policy to “strip workers of opportunity, flexibility, pay and protection against discrimination, in a bid to court the political backing of large labor unions.”