8A refers to the Small Business Administration's program to assist, quote, small disadvantaged businesses owned by a socially disadvantaged individual or tribe, end quote. Providing these small businesses with opportunities is a laudable goal. But over the decades, as it happens, The 8A program has morphed into swamp code words for DEI race based contracting. And here's the worst part. In many, many instances, these socially disadvantaged businesses, they don't even do work. (01:29–01:38)
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Asserts that the 8A program has become synonymous with DEI race-based contracting.
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