The Trump Administration’s “Skinny Budget,” released on May 2^nd, 2025, includes proposals to cut billions in annual federal spending on critical public health and disease data gathering, surveillance, and tracking in the United States, including cuts that will directly impact the lives of many of America’s most vulnerable populations.

“The tenets of DEI demand that you discriminate against white people by giving preferential treatment to other races,” said right-wing activist Robby Starbuck on Jordan Peterson’s podcast on February 2nd, 2025 (Jordan B. Peterson, 2025)

This conspiracy theory is the underlying sentiment being used by the current Trump Administration to justify its targeted actions against people of color, women and gender-nonconforming people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people in the United States.