Trump Administration Seeks to End $37B Minority Business Program, Citing Racial Bias Concerns

Trump Administration Seeks to End $37B Minority Business Program, Citing Racial Bias Concerns

The Trump camp is stepping into the legal fight to shut down a major federal program that’s helped minority-owned businesses for decades. Two white-owned Indiana companies, Mid-America Milling Company and Bagshaw Trucking Inc., sued the Department of Transportation in 2023, calling out the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program as unconstitutional. Backed by the Trump administration, they’re now pushing to dismantle the $37 billion init…

Trump Administration Moves To Dismantle $37 Billion Minority Business Program, Calling It Unconstitutional In New Filing - theJasmineBRAND

Trump Administration Moves To Dismantle $37 Billion Minority Business Program, Calling It Unconstitutional In New Filing The Trump administration has aligned with two white-owned Indiana construction companies in a legal bid to dismantle a $37 billion federal program meant to aid minority- and women-owned businesses. The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program, created in 1983, mandates that at least 10% of transportation infrastructure …

Federal DBE & State M/WBE Programs will survive DEI Rollback

Congress started the DBE program in the early-1980's in the wake of the civil rights movement.

DBE Program in Peril: Recent Legal Challenges and What They Mean for Women- and Minority-Owned Contractors | PilieroMazza, Law Firm, Government Contracts Attorney

Recent legal challenges jeopardize the future of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, a long-standing initiative designed to support minority- and women-owned businesses in federally funded state and local transportation infrastructure projects. In litigation against the DOT filed in October 2023, two non-DBE firms challenged the constitutionality of the program’s use of race- and sex-based pr…