Trump Administration Moves to Restore Professionalism in Federal Agencies, Orders Removal of Pronouns from Email Signatures

The Trump administration is once again cutting through the bureaucratic excess of the past four years, ordering federal employees to remove pronouns from email signatures and official government documents. This directive comes as part of President Trump’s sweeping reforms to eliminate divisive and wasteful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that have infiltrated federal agencies.

In memos obtained by ABC News, federal employees from multiple agencies—including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Energy (DOE), and Department of Transportation (DOT)—were informed that all pronouns and non-permitted information must be removed from their email signatures by Friday, January 31, 2025.

The CDC’s Chief Information Officer Jason Bonander made it clear in his internal memo: “Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed.” Employees were given a deadline of 5 p.m. to comply with the new directive, ensuring consistency with President Trump’s executive orders aimed at dismantling radical DEI programs across the federal workforce.

Similar instructions were issued at the Department of Energy and the Department of Transportation, which was also managing the fallout from the Washington, D.C., plane crash near Ronald Reagan National Airport the same day. Federal employees were directed to eliminate pronouns from everything from grant applications to email signatures to align with the administration’s push to restore merit-based governance and eliminate unnecessary ideological distractions from government communications.

Trump’s decisive action follows through on one of his major campaign promises—restoring traditional values in federal agencies and putting an end to DEI initiatives that his administration has called “radical and wasteful.” His first executive orders signed on day one called for the complete dismantling of DEI programs, gender ideology in government policies, and the restoration of biological reality in federal discourse.

Predictably, some career bureaucrats are resisting the change. One CDC employee, who chose to remain anonymous, expressed frustration, saying, “In my decade-plus years at the CDC, I’ve never been told what I can and can’t put in my email signature.”

But the reality is clear: under President Trump, the federal government is getting back to business. The days of taxpayer-funded political activism and gender ideology taking priority over public service are over.

As part of this shift, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) also issued a directive instructing agencies to review email systems, including Outlook, and disable features that prompt employees to list their pronouns.

With this policy now in effect, federal employees will be required to maintain professional, standardized communications, ensuring that the government serves the people efficiently and without ideological distractions.

What do you think? Should federal agencies focus on governing instead of activism? Comment below.

Source: Yahoo News