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Livermore Director Says Office Closed Due To Executive Order Ending DEI

Sarah Salem

Thursday, February 13th, 2025

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Kim Budil, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said Wednesday the lab closed an office due to President Trump’s executive order ending “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs in the federal government. “We did have an office that we closed,” Budil said at a hearing by the House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee on Energy. The session featured testimony from Budil and the directors from Idaho National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Argonne National Laboratory…

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