The Defense Department will no longer use “official resources, including man-hours” to celebrate “cultural awareness months.”

The Defense Department intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth late Friday issued new guidance ending official Defense Department events marking Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and other “cultural awareness months” across the U.