President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
The following day, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) told agency and department leaders to begin shutting down DEI offices and to place DEI employees on paid leave.
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The ATF seal. (Photo by Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images)
"ATF began implementing OPM’s Initial Guidance on DEIA immediately after its issuance on January 21, 2025, in response to the President’s Executive Orders. We have proactively taken the necessary steps to ensure compliance with this guidance, including by placing impacted personnel on administrative leave," an ATF spokesman told Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital asked for clarification on whether Boykin's new title protects her from administrative leave but did not immediately receive a reply.
Fox News Digital also reached out to Boykin on her ATF email and received an automatic response noting she was unavailable to reply.
"I am currently unavailable and unable to return e-mails at this time," the email read.
Social media commenters and critics of the Biden administration’s diversity initiatives slammed the ATF employee’s title change on social media, clamming the agency is "circumventing" the Trump administration's orders.
Biden championed diversity initiatives under his administration, rolling back the first Trump administration's policies that banned diversity training in government agencies during his first week in office in 2021.
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"In the weeks ahead, I will be reaffirming the federal government’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and accessibility, building on the work we started in the Obama-Biden administration. That’s why I’m rescinding the previous administration’s harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training," Biden said in January of 2021. "Unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth, not ignorance and lies."
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