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Sean Duffy: “It's unconstitutional to base [contracts for disadvantaged…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Sean Duffy sounds alarm over growing travel problems amid shutdown

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We've telegraphed that we have concerns about how contracts are given for disadvantaged businesses. All in favor of disadvantaged businesses getting a piece of the pie in Some of the work that we do, but It's unconstitutional to base [contracts for disadvantaged businesses] solely on race and sex. And so we're in the process of doing a review on those two projects. The problem is our staff has been furloughed. I have one person doing the reviews. (21:18–21:24)

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Asserts that basing contracts solely on race and sex is unconstitutional.

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