Costco shareholders defended DEI hiring against anti-woke attacks and won—for now

As anti-DEI directives are spilling out of the White House from the Trump administration, the wholesale retailer’s shareholders voted decisively to reject a conservative proposal.

With a swath of anti-DEI and other executive orders spilling out of the White House during the first week of Trump’s second term, many companies are likewise changing or rolling back their own DEI programs or policies, including Amazon, Boeing, Lowe’s, McDonald’s, and Meta.