The move has also drawn backlash from civil rights groups.
Deborah Vagins, senior vice president at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued a statement on Tuesday, calling the EEOC a “mouthpiece for Trump’s attacks on having a workforce reflective of America.”
“If you cannot measure problems, you cannot address them, which is exactly why this EEOC is proposing to stop demographic data collections,” she said. “Discrimination does not go away when you don’t assess it; it just makes it harder to prove.”
The National Women’s Law Center in a statement on Tuesday called the move the EEOC’s “latest attack on civil rights,” saying eliminating the data collection requirement would make it easier for the Commission to “justify enforcement priorities driven by politics rather than facts.”
Earlier this year, the EEOC did not announce the opening of the 2026 demographic data collection cycle in May, which raised concerns among lawmakers about whether the practice would be enforced. The Commission had also that month submitted a draft proposal to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to rescind the EEO-1 requirement.
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