WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Reverend Warnock issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), alongside Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) and 31 colleagues, is demanding U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy reconsider his destabilizing efforts to dismantle the successful 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 DOT that sets an aspirational nationwide goal for federal transportation funding recipients ...