Chris Rufo

But there's been no comprehensive audit of all of these approved minority contracting firms ever.

And we know it's rife with fraud.

We know this is part of it.

The other dirty detail or wrinkle that I heard from administration officials and others with knowledge, inside knowledge of the program, is that

You know, a lot of this money goes to the state of Alaska where there are native Alaskan tribes.

And there are these shell companies where private companies run by people from all different backgrounds use kind of token Alaska native firms to keep this flow of billions of dollars over time, tens of billions of dollars going.

And there are senators in Alaska who are very intent on keeping this spigot open.

These are Republican, at least one Republican senator

in Alaska.

And so everyone is in on this scam.

I think everyone knows that it's a dirty business.

It's totally corrupt, totally unjust.

But I think it needed the attention because what's really happened is that it fell under people's radar.

It's not a headline story for many people.

There's a lot of exciting things happening in the news.

But the reason I wanted to draw attention to it is because this should be an easy layup for the administration.

We don't do DEI.

We don't do race-based decision-making.

It's gone.

That's what I'd like to see, and I'm optimistic that we'll get there.