The order states that Vice President JD Vance will be in charge of efforts to prohibit federal funding for Smithsonian programs that are not in line with the administration's goals.
The focus group participants, some of whom backed Joe Biden in 2020, also criticized the Democratic Party and weighed in on the future of DEI programs.
In a class action complaint, the former employees also said that the mass firings violated their First Amendment rights for perceived political stances.
Doris Miller, the first Black sailor to earn a Navy Cross, is one of many from marginalized backgrounds whose contributions have been scrubbed from Pentagon websites.