Lansing-Rotz A flood of executive prescriptions by President Donald Trump will determine the Michigan Ministry of Transport by people with color and women.
Since his return to the office, Trump has given several executive regulations to end “diversity, equity and inclusion programs”, including one that partly aimed at state contractual obligation in order to all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, guidelines, programs, guidelines, guidelines Cance off, regulations, enforcement measures, approval orders and requirements. “
On January 21, this canceled five executive regulations and memoranda from 1965, when former President Lyndon Johnson asked the federal contractors to take “affirmative measures to ensure that applicants are employed and employees during employment regardless of their breed and their color and their breed are treated.
But Trump's command did not expressly canceled the executive ordinance of the former President Ronald Reagan from 1983 in which agencies, including state agencies, receive federal contract dollars that can create the creation of minority operator plans and “develop and implement and implement incentive techniques in order to subcontrapse in the minority to promote “.
The disadvantaged company company program from MDOT is an answer to Reagan 1983 order. The Mdot spokesman Jeff Cranson said that goals and no set as Asides for minorities and disadvantaged company participation on the federal road, which is involved in the federal compatibility.
“At this point, the executive regulations have no influence on this program,” said Cranson.
“Mdot will continue the goal of the goals for future financial years, unless otherwise dependent,” said Mdot spokeswoman Jocelyn Garza.
MDot's program is to “ensure that companies that belong and control companies that belong and control minorities, women and other socially disadvantaged persons and have the opportunity to grow and become self-sufficient by participating in the MdOT contracts financed by federal grows,” so The department's website.
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In the 2024 financial year, Mdot awarded the Federal Highway Highway Administration Contracts worth 1.3 billion US dollars and this amount of $ 117.1 million or 9%in “disadvantaged companies” as part of the federal program, according to a published by the department Summary sheet. That was only shy over the goal of the agency of 9.5%.
The goal of the 2025 financial year, which ends on September 30, is also 9.5% DBE participation, said Garza. The goal for 2026 was not set, said Garza.
Of the $ 117.1 million as part of the DBE program last year, 64.4 million dollars went to companies that are led by white women, led by $ 27.9 million to companies that were led by Hispanic men become 18.1 million US according to the Mdot summary.
There are 675 Michigan companies that are certified with MDot as DBEs, said Cranson.
Walt Ingram, the Alliance General Contractors and other construction companies based in Flint, who have participated in the DBE program for several decades, said that the MDOT program, although it is incorrect, is used to take part in government contracts.
If the DBE program is killed, “it would have been offset by minorities in the construction industry,” said Ingram, who is now largely retired, whose companies have worked at Flint Bishop International Airport and other projects throughout the state.
Ingram said he was “very concerned” about Trump's plans for the nation.
Contact Paul Egan: 517-372-8660 or pegan@freepress.com.