• Federal employees at NASA and the State Department are circumventing Trump’s ban on DEI programs by renaming them (e.g., calling them “multicultural activities”) while keeping the same objectives.
• Project Veritas released footage showing employees openly discussing these tactics, revealing deliberate defiance of presidential directives.
• Employees admitted to evading restrictions by altering terminology — such as replacing “climate change” with “natural hazards” — to secure funding and avoid scrutiny.
• The report highlights a broader culture of unaccountability, where agencies treat executive orders as optional and prioritize ideological agendas over policy compliance.
• The revelations raise concerns about undisclosed defiance in other areas, undermining democratic accountability and taxpayer expectations of transparency.

Federal employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of State are bypassing President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives by rebranding the latter.

Project Veritas shined a light on this scheme through undercover footage it posted on Tuesday, April 1. The footage featured two federal employees openly bragging their agency’s efforts to undermine Trump’s reforms to an undercover journalist. This reveals a disturbing pattern of deliberate insubordination, and proves that the Deep State will stop at nothing to preserve its ideological grip on the federal government.

Foreign Service Officer Anthony Abate, caught on hidden camera, admitted that defiance of Trump’s DEI bans is as simple as playing word games. “They canceled DEI stuff, but people just did it and called it something else,” he told the undercover journalist. “Work around the rules – just change the word, but it means the same thing.”

Abate predicted that the same strategy utilized during Trump’s first term would be deployed again in his second term. Under this strategy, agencies would relabel DEI initiatives as “multicultural activities” to evade scrutiny. Stunned by the brazenness of the scheme, the undercover journalist could not help but call it “genius” – a testament to the bureaucratic cunning of Washington’s entrenched swamp.

Meanwhile, NASA climate scientist Renato Braghiere revealed a similar tactic being used to bypass restrictions on politically charged terminology. “They don’t like that term [climate change], they don’t believe that and they’re probably not going to fund any of that,” he admitted.

But Braghiere shared his solution to the problem – rebranding. One example he gave to the undercover journalist was rebranding the term “climate change” to natural hazards.

DEI deception: The Swamp strikes back

The revelations from Abbate and Braghiere underscore a fundamental truth. Trump’s efforts to dismantle DEI and refocus the government on merit-based policies are being systematically undermined by an unaccountable bureaucracy.

The president signed several executive orders on his first day back in office that explicitly banned federal funding for DEI programs. Such programs, Trump pointed out, are divisive and discriminatory. Yet as Project Veritas has exposed, agencies are treating these directives as mere suggestions and exploiting linguistic loopholes to keep their preferred policies alive. (Related: Trump signs executive order eliminating funding for schools and colleges with DEI policies.)

The implications are alarming. If federal employees feel empowered to openly defy presidential orders – bragging about their deception to undercover journalists – what else are they hiding? The footage suggests a culture of contempt for accountability, where career bureaucrats view themselves as the true stewards of government, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.

Neither NASA nor the State Department has responded to the Project Veritas expose, leaving the public to wonder how widespread these subversive tactics truly are. If agencies are willing to deceive the administration on DEI and climate policy, what other directives are being ignored or manipulated behind closed doors?

The Deep State’s defiance is not just an affront to the Trump administration – it’s a betrayal of the American people. Taxpayers fund these agencies with the expectation that they will execute the policies of their elected leaders, not smuggle in forbidden initiatives through bureaucratic wordplay.

Project Veritas has peeled back the curtain on this shadowy resistance, but the real question remains: Will there be consequences for those caught red-handed, or will the Swamp creatures continue to operate with impunity?

One thing is clear – the battle for control of the federal government is far from over. And if these bureaucrats have their way, no executive order, no matter how forcefully written, will ever be enough to drain the Swamp.

Watch this video explaining how DEI is fascism in disguise.

This video is from the America at War channel on Brighteon.com.

More related stories:

Education Department places 55 employees on paid leave as part of Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle DEI initiatives.

Trump administration gives schools 14 days to scrap DEI policies or lose federal funding.

Pentagon ‘scrambling,’ wiping evidence of DEI as Trump prepares to fire woke generals.

Sources include:

YourNews.com

ProjectVeritas.com

WhiteHouse.gov

Brighteon.com