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’re confident that Daily Wire readers knew about the program: Our own investigative reporter Luke Rosiak testified to the Senate about the fraud-ridden, multi-billion dollar minority contracting scheme just a month earlier. He’s written about it extensively for years. Under the decades-old 8(a) program, 5% of all federal contracts are “set aside” for minority- and women-owned businesses. That’s right — instead of a competitive process that identifies the best company with the best value, government officials direct contracts to specific companies, with no bidding at all, based on minority status.
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