Trump military executive orders on DEI, vaccines, transgender troops

Trump is also set to direct the United States to build its own version of Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defense system, according to NBC News, which cited White House fact sheets and summaries of the orders.

The orders are the latest in a flurry of executive actions by Trump, who has pushed major changes across the federal government in his first week back in the White House.

The actions expected Monday include an order to reinstate people who were discharged from the military during the Covid pandemic for refusing to be vaccinated against the deadly virus.

Discharged service members who seek to be reinstated also will get full back pay and benefits, NBC reported.

Another order seeks to “prioritize readiness and lethality” in the military by undoing Biden-era gender inclusivity efforts.

The order would revoke President Joe Biden’s 2021 order prohibiting military discharges because of gender identity and bar “the use of invented and identification-based pronouns” in the Defense Department.

Trump’s expected order “also prohibits males from using or sharing sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for females,” the documents say.

The order also will direct the Pentagon to review all internal instances of “race or sex-based discrimination” stemming from DEI initiatives.

And it directs the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to review the curricula of U.S. service academies “to ensure these institutions eliminate radical DEI and gender ideologies,” according to the White House documents seen by NBC.