This week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a seismic announcement: “We’re actually taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government, a program few people outside of Washington have ever heard of–that I haven’t heard of. It’s called the 8(a) program.”
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Last month, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a seismic announcement: “We’re taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government. A program few people outside of Washington have ever heard of. That I haven’t heard of. It’s called the 8(a) program.”
We’reconfidentthatDailyWirereadersknewabouttheprogram:OurowninvestigativereporterLukeRosiaktestifiedtotheSenateaboutthefraud-ridden,multi-billiondollarminoritycontractingschemejustamonthearlier.He’swrittenaboutitextensivelyforyears.Underthedecades-old8(a)program,5%ofallfederalcontractsare“setaside”forminority-andwomen-ownedbusinesses.That’sright—insteadofacompetitiveprocessthatidentifiesthebestcompanywiththebestvalue,governmentofficialsdirectcontractstospecificcompanies,withnobiddingatall,base
