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Witnesses tell House committee minority contracting set-asides raise costs, invite fraud
Summary
A researcher on federal contracting told a House Oversight subcommittee that federal minority contracting programs such as the SBA's 8(a) program and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise set-asides increase taxpayer costs and have been repeatedly subject to fraud.
Witness testimony to a House Oversight subcommittee focused in detail on federal contracting programs that give procurement preferences based on the race or sex of business owners, with one witness saying the programs are "probably the most expensive by an order of magnitude" among DEI-related initiatives.
Judge Glock, described in the hearing as a director of research and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said the federal government spent "over $750,000,000,000 on contracts" last year and called out two principal race-based contracting programs: the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program and the Department of Transportation's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise…
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