President Donald Trump is placing diversity, equity, and inclusion staff on paid leave as government agencies plan layoffs, according to a memo Tuesday from the Office of Personnel Management. It’s the latest fallout from his executive order ending federal DEI programs and just one of the headlines from Trump’s first full day back in office demonstrating the drastic changes already underway. At the White House on Tuesday, Trump announced a new partnership called “Stargate” that has committed to invest at least $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure. Trump said it’s expected to create more than 100,000 American jobs “almost immediately.”The news came as hundreds of people who were convicted for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were released from prison after Trump’s sweeping clemency actions on Inauguration Day. “I always knew he was going to do it. I had no doubt,” Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes, whose …
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