Trump signs executive order targeting 'anti-Christian bias'
Story by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, Francesca Chambers and Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY • 10h
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order creating a Justice Department task force to eradicate what he called "anti-Christian bias" within the federal government.
In 2023, a House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reported that under the pretext of tackling the threat of domestic terrorism, the FBI's Richmond office described certain "radical-traditionalist Catholics" as violent extremists and "proposed opportunities for the FBI to infiltrate Catholic churches as a form of threat mitigation."
Last May, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to stop an "attempt to redefine federal law through agency guidance." The previous month, the EEOC had redefined workplace protections based on “sex” to include “gender identity.”
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The mission of the task force will be to "immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination in the federal government," including at the Department of Justice, the FBI, the IRS and other agencies, Trump said in a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.
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