“I’d hate to see the baby thrown out with the bathwater,” one executive said of the Trump administration’s scrutiny of small-business 8(a) programs.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Jan. 16 lambasted a decades-old contracting program that provides business opportunities for small and disadvantaged businesses, calling it a breeding ground for fraud and disparaging it as a “DEI” effort.
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Source: DefenseNews.com | Published: 2026-01-26T18:44:59Z
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