WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) joined Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and 31 other colleagues in demanding (https://www.kelly.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Letter-to-USDOT.pdf) the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Sean Duffy reconsider efforts to dismantle the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (ACDBE) programs that help drive job growth and the nation's transportation economy.
The DBE program is a historically bipartisan federal initiative administered by USDOT that helps small and disadvantaged businesses compete for federal transportation contracts. The ACDBE program spec...