The Trump administration directed its agencies to not hire individuals based on their race, sex or religion while it works to overhaul the federal government through major cuts and restructuring.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) outlined the “Merit Hiring Plan” in a memo sent to heads and acting heads of departments and agencies on Thursday, which directed them to not use statistics on race, sex, ethnicity, national origin or “the broader concept of ‘underrepresentation’” to hire or recruit.

It calls on agencies to stop publishing and distributing information on the composition of the workforce based on........

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