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President Donald Trump has nominated Matt Zandi, a Justice Department official, to fill a seat on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a key civil rights agency. Zandi, who currently serves as chief of staff for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, would serve a five-year term ending July 1, 2031. His nomination comes as the EEOC prepares for several major regulatory changes, including ending a 60-year-old requirement to collect demographic workforce data from many employers and revising rules for enforcing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Zandi’s confirmation would further shift the balance of power at the EEOC to the right, as there are currently two Republican commissioners and one Democrat. The impending Democratic takeover of the Senate majority in January raises the possibility that the EEOC won’t have five commissioners for the remainder of Trump’s term.
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