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‘New sheriff in town’: State finance leader rallies around key Trump victory saving ‘taxpayer dollars’

President Donald Trump’s executive order ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government has returned financial power to the people, OJ Oleka, CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation, told Fox News Digital.
Oleka said there’s a «new sheriff in town» and that Trump is «making good» on his promise to eliminate DEI by shifting financial policies «away from the left and back to the center,» empowering state financial officers and building trust with the American people.
«We know that when companies focus on business, their business does better. If their business does better, shareholders make more money, their employees have a better quality of life within their business and their consumers get a better product,» Oleka told Fox News Digital at the State Financial Officers Foundation conference in Orlando, Florida.
Oleka said focusing on financial returns and merit-based incentives over DEI or environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies creates «more money for shareholders, better culture in the office for employees and better products for consumers and customers,» exactly what state financial officers have been asking for.
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Fox News Digital spoke to State Financial Officers Foundation CEO OJ Oleka in Orlando, Fla. (Getty/Fox Digital)
«The American people want every individual to succeed,» Oleka said. «They want people to succeed on their merit, on their ability, on their skill. It’s very important to us as Americans. But what they don’t want is for people to get preferences just because of some political ideology.»
He said there are misconceptions about DEI «because people hear diversity, equity and inclusion, and they think, ‘Well, those are good things. I support diversity. I want people to be included, and people should have the resources that they need.’
«To be very clear, when we’re talking about DEI, we’re saying that DEI is trying to provide racial or gender preferences for people based on past grievances. It effectively has nothing to do with merit or looking at somebody’s skill for a job or for an opportunity.»
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Equal opportunity is giving people access to create their own opportunities, to try to be as successful as they can be with their skills, ability and merit, according to Oleka.
Oleka explained that DEI is subjective because it prefers «folks based on what you think is important, based on your own politics.»
«It’s bad to say, from a company’s perspective, ‘Let’s just hire people based on race, based on gender,’ as opposed to skill and ability,» Oleka said.
«It’s bad because it can harm the performance of what that company actually does with their business responsibilities. That matters to our financial officers because they invest in a lot of these companies. It’s their job as fiduciary leaders to make sure that the pensions that they invest, the public funds that they invest by virtue of their positions, are actually done so by companies and with funds where the returns are going to be high.

OJ Oleka, CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation, spoke with Fox News Digital at the State Financial Officers Foundation conference in Orlando, Florida. (Fox News Digital)
«We can’t guarantee that the returns are going to be as high as they can be if the companies aren’t even focusing on their specific mandate, on their responsibility. Instead, they’re focusing on their politics and trying to force an ideology or social agenda through their businesses. That’s not what business is for.»
Oleka said his experience as someone with a Ph.D. in higher education who is also the son of Nigerian immigrants informs his rejection of political ideology or agendas in government-funded programs, including in public education, because these policies don’t improve students’ learning experience or academic performance.
«That doesn’t actually contribute to kids’ learning,» Oleka said. «It doesn’t contribute to human flourishing. There really is no reason why people’s taxpayer dollars should be spent on that.»

President Donald Trump speaks during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Oleka told Fox News Digital the Orlando conference was critical to reminding state financial officers across the country they are not alone in pushing back against DEI and ESG policies that were promoted by former President Joe Biden’s administration.
«It goes back to what I think most Americans believe. Their state government is closer to them than the federal government,» he said. «As a result, state leaders should have more power, as it relates to their finances, than the federal government, and what a state leader should do with that power is give it back to the people.»
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By empowering state financial officers to focus on financial returns and fiduciary duty instead of ideology and politics, Oleka said more Americans are incentivized financially.
«It’s important that we have that same kind of leadership in the White House at the state level, making good on their promise to bring a Golden Age to America and to each state,» he said.
Politics,DEI,Woke Culture,US Finance,Donald Trump
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IDF detains Gaza-bound vessel carrying Greta Thunberg: ‘The show is over’

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Israeli forces early Monday detained an aid boat bound for Gaza while carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists.
The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed that it detained the Madleen, along with all its passengers, and diverted the vessel to Israel.
Activist Greta Thunberg, center, waits to board the Madleen boat, before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)
A video from the ministry posted on X shows an Israeli Navy officer engaging with the approaching «selfie yacht.»
ISRAEL VOWS TO ‘ACT ACCORDINGLY’ AS THUNBERG SAILS TOWARD GAZA ON PALESTINIAN-FLAGGED VESSEL
«Using an international civilian communication system, the Israeli Navy has instructed the ‘selfie yacht’ to change its course due to its approach toward a restricted area,» a post from the ministry read.
The video shows a Navy officer telling them that the maritime of the Gaza coast is closed to traffic. She instructs the activists on board that they must deliver aid through established channels.
The Israel Foreign Ministry said the passengers were «safe and unharmed» and had been provided sandwiches and water.
«The show is over,» the ministry said.
Israel had vowed to stop the so-called Freedom Flotilla Coalition in the days leading up to its arrival.
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Thunberg, a 22-year-old climate activist from Sweden, set sail aboard the Madleen last week, hoisting a Palestinian flag with 11 other activists, including «Game of Thrones» actor Liam Cunningham and Rima Hassa, a French member of the European Parliament who is of Palestinian descent.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg with other activists from a human rights organization meets with journalists in Catania, Italy on Sunday ahead of their departure for the Mideast. (AP)
The groups’ aim was to reach the shores of the Gaza Strip to bring in some aid and raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis there.
According to the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, the aid on the ship was less than a single truckload.

Activist Greta Thunberg stands near a Palestinian flag after boarding the Madleen boat and before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP)
«The tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the ‘celebrities’ will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels,» the ministry said.
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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has instructed the IDF to screen the footage of October 7 to participants of the Gaza-bound flotilla.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
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El régimen de Irán amenazó con tomar “fuertes represalias” si el OIEA aprueba alguna resolución en su contra

El régimen de Irán advirtió que tomará represalias y reducirá significativamente su nivel de cooperación con el Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA) si la Junta de Gobernadores de dicha entidad aprueba una resolución en su contra. La medida, impulsada por el Reino Unido, Francia y Alemania —con apoyo de Estados Unidos—, podría intensificar aún más las tensiones sobre el programa nuclear iraní, cuya naturaleza pacífica no puede ser confirmada por el organismo de la ONU.
“Ciertamente, el OIEA no debe esperar que la República Islámica continúe su amplia y amistosa cooperación”, declaró el portavoz de la Organización de Energía Atómica de Irán, Behrouz Kamalvandi, en una entrevista con la televisión estatal iraní. El funcionario confirmó que su país ha preparado una lista de medidas técnicas y diplomáticas en respuesta a una eventual resolución crítica por parte del organismo.
En el centro de la disputa se encuentra el nivel de enriquecimiento de uranio que ha alcanzado Irán. Según el último informe técnico del OIEA, publicado el 31 de mayo, Teherán casi duplicó entre febrero y mayo la producción de uranio enriquecido al 60 %, acumulando 408,6 kilogramos, un nivel muy cercano al requerido para el uso militar. La agencia sostiene que “la rápida acumulación de uranio altamente enriquecido es motivo de grave preocupación” y ha dificultado las inspecciones técnicas.

El informe advierte además que Irán no ha proporcionado respuestas “técnicamente creíbles” sobre la presencia de material nuclear no declarado en al menos tres sitios específicos: Lavisan-Shian, Varamin y Turquzabad. En dichos lugares, el gobierno iraní habría realizado limpiezas que obstaculizaron las verificaciones del organismo.
“El Organismo no está en condiciones de garantizar que el programa nuclear de Irán sea exclusivamente pacífico”, concluyó el OIEA en su evaluación, y subrayó que, a pesar de ciertos avances en temas rutinarios de salvaguardias, la cooperación iraní ha sido “menos que satisfactoria” en los temas sustantivos.
Frente a la posibilidad de una nueva resolución crítica, Abás Araqchí, ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Irán, escribió en la red social X que “Irán reaccionará enérgicamente contra cualquier violación de sus derechos”. Acusó al E3 —como se conoce al grupo formado por Reino Unido, Alemania y Francia— de “optar por una acción maligna” en lugar de actuar de buena fe. “Acusar falsamente a Irán de violar las salvaguardias, basándose en información de mala calidad y politizada, está claramente diseñado para provocar una crisis”, afirmó el diplomático.
Estas advertencias llegan días antes de la reunión de la Junta de Gobernadores del OIEA, que comenzará este 9 de junio en Viena. En esta instancia, los Estados miembros evaluarán el informe de 22 páginas elaborado por el organismo, que repasa las actividades e inspecciones realizadas en Irán durante los últimos años.

En caso de aprobarse una resolución de condena, esta podría ser remitida al Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, que tendría la facultad de reactivar sanciones internacionales suspendidas bajo el acuerdo nuclear de 2015.
Ese pacto, conocido como el Plan de Acción Integral Conjunto (JCPOA), fue abandonado unilateralmente por Estados Unidos en 2018 bajo la administración de Donald Trump. Desde entonces, Irán ha ido reduciendo progresivamente su cumplimiento de los compromisos nucleares, especialmente tras la imposición de nuevas sanciones económicas por parte de Washington.
Desde el 12 de abril, Teherán y Washington han sostenido cinco rondas de conversaciones indirectas en Omán, con el objetivo de restablecer un marco de control sobre el programa nuclear iraní. Sin embargo, las diferencias siguen siendo significativas. Estados Unidos exige que Irán detenga su enriquecimiento de uranio a niveles cercanos al umbral militar, mientras que Irán reclama garantías sobre el levantamiento de sanciones y el respeto a sus derechos soberanos.

En su intervención pública del domingo, Kamalvandi recordó que Irán ya ha reaccionado con firmeza en el pasado ante medidas similares. “Multiplicamos por siete la producción de enriquecimiento al 60 %” tras la aprobación de una resolución crítica en noviembre de 2024, indicó. En esa ocasión, Teherán también reactivó miles de centrifugadoras avanzadas como señal de desafío.
El director general del OIEA, Rafael Grossi, reiteró este sábado su “llamamiento urgente a Irán para que coopere plena y eficazmente con el Organismo”. Advirtió que sin dicha colaboración, el OIEA no podrá verificar si el material nuclear no declarado fue utilizado, mezclado con otro material o permanece fuera del control de salvaguardias internacionales.
(Con información de EFE)
Diplomacy / Foreign Policy,Middle East,BEIRUT
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