Illinois county refuses to bow to Trump’s ‘cruel policies’, hires DEI clerk

Officials in Cook County, Illinois, are refusing to meekly submit to US president Donald Trump’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) measures. 

On his first day back in power, Trump placed government DEI employees on paid administrative leave, while federal agencies were ordered to cancel any equality-related training and to take down all “outward-facing media” from DEI offices.

In addition, as part of Trump’s “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth” executive order, government agency workers were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures. 

But Cook County clerk Monica Gordon has said her office would stand against the president’s “cruel policies”. 

‘Threatening rhetoric and cruel policies’

Marking her 100th day in office, Gordon told reporters that Trump’s stance

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