The Trump administration has announced the federal government will no longer unequivocally prohibit contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains. Why it matters: The change announced last month in an overlooked public memo is a symbolic move,

Welcome to 1925...whoops, I meant 2025. A year in which the president of the United States' administration changed a decades-old order and now the federal government no longer explicitly bans contractors from having "segregated facilities" — aka, restaurants, waiting rooms, and drinking fountains.

President Trump's latest DEI directive repeals an executive order on nondiscrimination signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, which explicitly prohibited segregated facilities in federal contracts.