DEI Fraud Exposed & Mamdani’s Radical Moves | 12.11.25
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What are the major fraud issues being addressed in Congress?
Fraud and the economy take center stage on Capitol Hill as the Fed cuts rates and the Senate holds a key hearing on corruption.
The most openly abused and shockingly corrupt program in the federal government is so-called set-aside contracting.
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Thursday, December 11th, and this is Morning Wire.
New York Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani has yet to take office, but critics say the storm clouds are already forming over the city.
We put together a team of more than 400 New Yorkers who bring with them both a fluency of the policies and politics of the city, the places that they've succeeded, the places that they've failed.
And as new estimates put Minnesota's massive fraud scandal even higher than previously believed, lawmakers call for tougher federal oversight on relief programs.
We're going to have to look into this in a lot more detail because, you know, there's a lot of allegations out there and they've been out there for years.
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How does the 8A program contribute to federal contracting fraud?
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What controversies surround New York Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani?
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here to break it all down. So Cabot, let's start with the massive fraud scandal that's being discussed on the Hill right now. Our own Luke Rosiak testified before the Senate. Can you give a little context about what brought him there and what he discussed?
Sure. So this all centers on the Small Business Administration's 8A program, which was initially intended to offer support for those businesses that were deemed socially and economically disadvantaged. Now, under the Biden administration, federal agencies were instructed to make sure that 15% of all government contracts were awarded to businesses operated by minorities or women, meaning billions of taxpayer dollars were given individually. based on race and gender. So basically, this was one of the largest DEI programs in the country. Now, not only was the program intentionally excluding certain people based on race, it was also rife with fraud. Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has documented countless cases in which minority-owned businesses
would win a contract and then outsource nearly all of the work to non-minority-owned businesses, pocketing most of the money in the process.
How is Mamdani's administration impacting public safety and law enforcement?
In many other cases, large government contractors like Deloitte or Booz Allen Hamilton would seek out minority-owned businesses to secure contracts on their behalf through the 8A program, and then those smaller businesses would keep a huge chunk of the money while the larger contractor would do all of the work. On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Small Business held a hearing to address that fraud, and here's what Rosiak had to say about his findings.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the major fraud issues being addressed in Congress?
0:04–1:16
2
How does the 8A program contribute to federal contracting fraud?
1:16–2:25
3
What controversies surround New York Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani?
2:25–3:28
4
How is Mamdani's administration impacting public safety and law enforcement?
3:28–4:21
5
What are the details of Minnesota's fraud scandal?
4:21–6:07
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What actions are being taken to investigate Minnesota's fraud issues?
6:07–10:53
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How does the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision affect the economy?
10:53–17:39
Speakers
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