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e’ve reached the end of 2025, a year that felt both too short and entirely too long. A lot has happened to DEI along the way, due to Department of Justice (DOJ) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) changes as the Trump administration took pow

er.Changes at the EEOC. President Trump dismissed two Biden-era EEOC commissioners in January (a move that some legal scholars argued was unlawful). An EEOC quorum was restored in late October, when Brittany Panuccio was sworn in. Shortly after, Andrea Lucas, a staunch opponent of DEI, who Trump first nominated to the department in 2020, was named