WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Department of Agriculture directed its staff to identify grants for possible termination in the early months of the second Trump administration by searching for more than two dozen specific words and phrases related to diversity and climate change, according to documents seen by Reuters.

The effort was undertaken as part of a broad campaign across federal agencies to comply with President Donald Trump’s directives to end diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and climate regulation in the federal government.

Trump has called DEI “racist” and “illegal” and pressured private entities like universities to also end diversity practices. He has called climate change a “con job.” The documents, obtained by legal advocacy group FarmSTAND in the course of litigation agains

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