SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration’s 2018 budget seeks to merge two federal agencies that investigate workplace discrimination.

The 2018 budget proposal, released May, seeks to cut funding of a rarely discussed federal agency that operates within the U.S. Department of Labor. It’s called the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and it’s responsible for promoting affirmative-action hiring and retention methods in companies that are contractors or subcontractors with the federal government. The budget calls for the OFCCP to be combined with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an investigator of discrimination in the workplace

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