Federal employees were told to remove the pronoun from E -Mail signatures at the end of the day

Employees in several federal agencies were ordered to remove the pronoun from their E -mail signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News, quoting two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in the office, which seeks to limit diversity and stock programs in the federal government.

“Promotion and other information not allowed in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures of 5.pm one on Friday,” according to such a message sent Friday morning to CDC staff.

Federal employees of the Department of Transport received a similar directive on Thursday, the same day that the department administered the fall of the DC Aircraft near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Employees were asked to remove pronouns from everything from the state folors to E -mail signatures across the department, sources of ABC News told.

Employees at the Department of Energy, who received a similar message on Thursday, were told that this was to meet the requirements of Trump’s executive order calling for the removal of the “language in federal discourse, communication and publications.”

It was not immediately clear whether employees in other federal agencies received similar messages. Spokespersons for the transport department, Energy Department, HHS and CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

The mandate of removing the pronoun from e -mail signatures is the latest result of Trump administration’s push to remove diversity and capital efforts in the federal government.

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 30, 2025.

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On his first day in the office, Trump signed a couple of executive orders calling for a cessation of what his administration called “Radicals and wasted DEI programs” and tried to restore “biological truth to the federal government.” Both orders were referred to the Friday announcement to agencies.

The memos contained instructions on how to edit E -Mail signatures.

At least one career official met the order with irritation.

“In my decade-plus year on the CDC, I’ve never been told what I can and can’t put in my email signature,” said a recipient who asked not to be identified by fear of retaliation.

A note issued Wednesday by Office of Personal Management also instructed agencies to “review the agency’s E -mail systems such as Outlook and turn off features that encourage users to their pronouns.”

ABC News’ Cheyenne Haslett contributed to this report.