NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Trump administration officials are pressing federal agencies to dig deeper to find diversity workers to push out of the government, reported The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

President Donald Trump's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) last week required federal agencies to close offices that focus exclusively on diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and accessibility and place employees of those divisions on paid administrative leave by Jan. 22. Agency leaders were required to submit a list of all DEI employees the following day, according to the report.

After doing so, agencies were asked to identify additional staff who worked on those areas during a meeting with OPM staff last week, the report cited officials. "It seemed that the Trump administration had expected the number to be larger. Some agency officials parsed through position descriptions to find additional related roles," it noted.

The Trump administration has followed up with agencies about employees thought to be working on diversity issues as well as those who have attended internal diversity events, it added. Enditem

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