In Pennsylvania, Shapiro estimates the state will lose nearly $500 million in federal grant funding to expand and improve public health infrastructures.
A federal agency overseeing government contracts plans to make recent federal DEI bans applicable to past agreements with private contractors.
Companies providing goods and services to the federal government have few legal avenues to challenge potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of contract cancellations coming as soon as Friday.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reviewing consulting firms' work with the federal government and asking companies to break down their agency contracts.
President Trump's latest DEI directive repeals an executive order on nondiscrimination signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, which explicitly prohibited segregated facilities in federal contracts.
On March 28, 2025, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its previous ruling that permitted a $15 per hour minimum wage for federal contractors, shortly after President Donald Trump revoked the Biden administration rule setting that wage rate.
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