A Thousand Companies Suspended—and That’s Just the Beginning The Small Business Administration has suspended 1,091 companies from the 8(a) Business Development Program, a key federal contracting pipeline that sets aside billions of taxpayer dollars each year. Why? Federal DEI Contracting Scam abuses thrive in systems this large when oversight collapses and verification becomes optional.These firms failed to produce basic financial records—three years’ worth—by a clear deadline. Let that sink in. Roughly one-quarter of the entire program couldn’t—or wouldn’t—prove they were legitimate businesses. About half of the suspended firms had already collected more than $5 billion in federal contracts since 2021. This isn’t a paperwork issue. This is systemic abuse. What the 8(a) Program Became—and Why It Failed The 8(a) program…
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