8(a) Program

topic on 1 show · 4 statements across 1 episodes

American Optimist

4 statements about 8(a) Program, every show

AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Loeffler: SBA Launches First 8(a) Audit in 45 Years, Expels 1,000 Firms
“That's why we're doing the first audit of this program in 45 years. It's never been looked at. We've already kicked a thousand people out of the program.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 22:30 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
Loeffler: Biden administration policies led to 80% no-bid government contracts
“I mean, they moved it up from a five percent statutory target to 15% of all government contracting. That's why the program almost doubled under Biden, and it went to about 80% no-bid contracts.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 22:04 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Loeffler: SBA Removed 150 D.C.-Based Businesses from 8(a) Program
“We just removed a 150 Washington D.C. Based So-called small disadvantaged businesses from the program, because they were neither small nor disadvantaged, but they were Washington cronies.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 21:24 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Loeffler: SBA's 8(a) Program Represents $40B in Annual Contracting
“Let's, let's be clear, it's forty billion dollars worth of annual contracting.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 19:50 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale

← every entity, every show

Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, thousands of episodes across every show transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.