Trump’s return to the White House in January shifted the corporate conversation about DEI. He ordered federal agencies to “combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities,” including by potentially suing companies or fining them for prioritizing identity over merit in employment decisions.

Major employers including Meta and Google suspended minority hiring targets and dropped some references to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from their websites and regulatory filings around the time of Trump’s order. Meta and Google also significantly reduced funding for DEI initiatives, such as events, training, and recruiting drives aimed at improving representation of minority groups, according to company announcements and employees.

Google employees who spoke with WIRED say that a number of colleagues who focused on diversity-related issues have left the company or been assigned to new priorities this year. Employee resource groups have faced new limitations on their programming, and the company has even curtailed employees from posting fliers about community events on physical bulletin boards in its offices, these workers allege.

Parul Koul, president of the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents over a thousand workers at Google and other Alphabet companies, alleges Google’s decision to not issue a diversity report is an appeal to the Trump administration and an attempt to hide possible declines in workforce diversity. “It’s a glaring omission,” Koul says.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

In the months after Trump retook office in January 2025, Apple, Amazon, and Nvidia continued to publish updated diversity statistics. None would comment on the record about their decision to continue the practice. Each of their disclosures showed a corporate workforce that was roughly 70 percent male globally and 40 percent white in the US as of the end of last year.

Apple and Amazon also continued to voluntarily publish their annual reports to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which requires workforce race and gender breakdowns from businesses with over 100 employers. The typically confidential filings, known as EEO-1 reports, have also at times been available to the public under freedom of information laws. But recent federal court rulings and the Trump administration’s stance on DEI threaten to obstruct future access.