Today, Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-WI) introduced the Ending Discrimination in Government Contracting Act to stop federal agencies from violating the Constitution by awarding contracts based on recipients’ race or sex.
End race- and sex-based preferences in federal contracting and eliminate related DEI contracting mandates, quotas, reporting requirements, and programs.
Occurrences
Grothman Introduces the Ending Discrimination in Government Contracts Act
introduced the Ending Discrimination in Government Contracting Act to stop federal agencies from violating the Constitution by awarding contracts based on recipients’ race or sex
Evidence
The White House said the order requires Federal contracts to include a clause prohibiting racially discriminatory DEI activities.
The order bars contractors from racially discriminatory DEI activities and directs FAR changes to remove conflicting provisions.
A DOL email told employees to report DEI-related discrimination or retaliation, showing continued anti-DEI enforcement activity in the lookback window.
Assessments
The cited 2026 executive action materially rolled back DEI-related requirements for federal contractors by prohibiting certain race-based DEI practices and directing contract/FAR changes. That matches part of the promise. But the promise was broader: ending race- and sex-based preferences and eliminating related contracting mandates, quotas, reporting requirements, and programs across federal contracting. The evidence shows a significant but incomplete policy rollback, not a demonstrated full elimination of all such requirements. Candidate credit is also limited because the documented delivery came from President Trump and executive agencies, not from a Grothman-authored or Grothman-driven enactment shown in the record. Under federal candidate-credit rules, that supports partial rather than full delivery.