Source web Tier A
SBA Reforms 8(a) Business Development Program to End Racial Discrimination in Federal Contracting
U.S. Small Business Administration, news release, June 11, 2026, announcing the proposed rule that became 91 FR 51568. Source of Administrator Kelly Loeffler's statement, of the 2021 through 2024 approval counts, and of the agency's own account of the rule's purpose.
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- Record
- sba-8a-reform-proposed-rule-release-2026-06-11
- Type
- web
- Trust tier
- A
- Status
- published
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SBA’s own framing, in its own voice, which is why the alert quotes it directly
rather than characterizing it. Retrieved 2026-09-07. The sba.gov address issues
a 302 to legacy.sba.gov; the legacy address is the one that serves the page and
the one recorded here. Raw HTML was fetched and the quoted sentences were read in
the page source, not through a summarizer, because two of them are the alert’s
load-bearing quotations: Loeffler’s “weaponized” paragraph and the sentence
“From 2021 through 2024, the Biden Administration approved roughly 2,100 new 8(a)
firms, compared with just 65 approved to date under the Trump Administration.”
This release announces the PROPOSED rule of June 11, 2026, not the final rule of August 11. The alert says so where it quotes it. The two documents are separate records and the distinction is not cosmetic: the proposal drew 114 comments and the final rule responds to them.
Provenance
- Creator
- U.S. Small Business Administration
- Published
- 2026
- Accessed
- 2026-09-07
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