Termination of DEI Policies and Directives at U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) in accordance with Executive Orders

The President issued the following Executive Orders on January 20, 2025:

• Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing

Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions Based upon these Executive Orders, the following GSA DEI policy directives, guidance and plans are rescinded:

• EO 14035 - GSA’s DEI Strategic Plan, which outlined an approach to cultivate
  agency-wide success in diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA)
• GSA Order HRM 9552.1A, Highest Previous Rate in Basic Pay Setting -
  September 2024, which updated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion requirements
  into the final rule of the Advancing Pay Equity in Governmentwide Pay Systems.
• GSA’s Order HRM 9531.1A, Superior Qualifications, July 16, 2024, which
  includes, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” language based on the final rule of
  Office of Personnel Management (OPM), January 30, 2024.
• All references to DEI Programs to be removed from all internal and external GSA
  websites*

All HSSOs are hereby instructed to (1) review all operations to ensure implementation of this Memorandum to the fullest extent possible; and (2) no later than 1/23/25 provide Mehul Parekh with a list of any additional policy directives, guidance, or plans that should be considered for rescission.

*For gsa.gov and InSite: For the next 30 days do not remove any content directly. Please send your request to the Office of Strategic Communication's digitalteam@gsa.gov. We will make sure to properly archive the content if necessary and address any links that break when we take the content down. For other websites that are directly managed by your SSO, please ensure you track content changes and keep copies of all the content removed, along with screen captures, for records management purposes.