Chris Rufo

And the question is simply this.

It's now one year into the Trump administration.

The president came out strong on day one, said no more DEI.

Why are we still administering billions of dollars for every group except for one?

It seems totally unfair, totally unconstitutional.

And yet it's still something that until now has been surviving in the Trump administration.

Well, so it boils down to a legal question.

So there is a statute in place that says there is racial contracting.

It's called the Section 8A program that is supposed to be for disadvantaged groups.

And, you know, to be fair, Kelly Loeffler, who's the administrator at the SBA, has done some great work in the first year.

She's...

mandated the first ever audit.

She's reduced the percentage of race-based contracting from 15% to 5%.

But I think what's happened is that she feels hemmed in by legal considerations.

It may not be technically a DEI program.

It's more like an affirmative action contracting program.

The native tribes have sovereignty issues that make them somewhat of an exception to race-based rules.

But the bottom line is that it hasn't got done.

It needs to get done.

And I was fielding calls yesterday from the White House after this story came out.