News & Reports
New Policy Memo Exposes Risks in Procurement Executive Order
A sweeping Executive Order may be quietly dismantling decades of small business contracting protections — with no public notice, no Congressional oversight, and no clear plan to preserve access.
ASBCC’s new memo breaks it down: what’s at risk, what the law actually requires, and why this matters for communities, innovation, and America’s defense base.
This Is What We Stand On—And Why We Must Speak Up
A letter from Charmagne Manning, President of The American Small Business Chamber of Commerce. These reports show just how bipartisan this effort has always been—and just how deeply embedded your right to participate in federal contracting is in our laws and regulations. From the Small Business Act of 1953 to the most recent National Defense Authorization Acts, your place in federal procurement has been protected not just by policy—but by statute.
President Trump’s “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” Executive Order Targets Federal Contractors and the Private Sector
On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued the Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity Executive Order (the “EO”), which revokes Executive Order 11246, a 60-year-old Civil Rights-era directive that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, and required federal contractors to take affirmative action to provide equal opportunity in employment.