US EditionTrump Admin To Settle Suit Claiming Program For 'Disadvantaged' Businesses Only Serves 'Women And Certain Minorities'
- Two white-owned companies sued the Department of Transportation in 2023 over the 42-year-old Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program.
- The companies claim the federally funded $37 billion program, authorized by Congress in 1983, is unconstitutional because it helps women and non-white-owned businesses.
- The program serves about 49,000 businesses designated as disadvantaged but does not specify race or gender in its criteria.
- The original complaint characterized the DBE as one of the largest affirmative action initiatives in U.S. History, arguing that its objectives impose exclusionary obstacles on racial groups that are not beneficiaries, such as white individuals.
- The White House filed a settlement proposal with the Department of Transportation that could lead to dismantling the DBE, arguing it violates the Constitution's "promise of equal treatment.
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Trump Admin To Settle Suit Claiming Program For ‘Disadvantaged’ Businesses Only Serves ‘Women And Certain Minorities’
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The Trump administration has taken a new step in its quest to make white nationalism great again by taking an axe to any program designed to level an uneven playing field that has historically benefited white men — or what MAGA conservatives call DEI. According to the Independent, the White House, on Wednesday, filed a proposal for a settlement with the Department of Transportation, which was sued in 2023 by …
Trump Admin To Settle Suit Claiming Program For 'Disadvantaged' Businesses Only Serves 'Women And Certain Minorities'
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The Trump administration has taken a new step in its quest to make white nationalism great again by taking an axe to any program designed to level an uneven playing field that has historically benefited white men — or what MAGA conservatives call DEI. According to the Independent, the White House, on Wednesday, filed a proposal for a settlement with the Department of Transportation, which was sued in 2023 by …
Washington Post Quotes Tony Franco: Trump Administration Upends $37 Billion Affirmative Action Program for Nearly 49,000 Government Contractors | PilieroMazza, Law Firm, Government Contracts Attorney
The Washington Post has reported that the Trump administration has moved to dismantle one of the federal government’s largest and longest-standing affirmative action programs, siding with two businesses that challenged its constitutionality. In a motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, the Justice Department said that a Transportation Department program that has carved out an estimated $37 billion for minori…
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