[Macho MAGA Man]

This should end well.

[silverleaf]

“some are questioning whether the DEI criteria could inadvertently sideline other considerations crucial to project success, such as experience, efficiency, and past performance”

Well…duhhh

[Tai_Chung]

white privilege

[jerod]

So you can take the cost estimate... Times it by 3 or 4, add a year or two to the completion date and viola... In a decade of so, JFK will be ‘renovated’.

[Steely Tom]

It’ll be entertaining to hear the excuses and blame-shifting.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Disintegrating airplanes flown by inexperienced pilots into DEI maintained airports.

Perfect storm.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Not to worry. As they fail to perform, the contracts will be reawarded to competent contractor at double or triple the cost while retaining the original DEI contractors.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like a clear civil rights violation.

[Blurb2350]

Keep in mind that many firms claiming to be woman- or minority-owned have women and minorities at the top only as figureheads in order to secure plum contracts.

[Laslo Fripp]

What is a woman?

[AlaskaErik]

Stand by for massive cost overruns and substandard work.

[Dead Corpse]

So... overtly Racist.

Got it.

[Racketeer]

Well it is obviously one way to associate JFK with minorities for he certainly did not ever go to school with them. Nor his children or his grandchildren.

[Sacajaweau]

Too many of those companies are phony. A greedy contractor hires a woman to head a company and voila...they get jobs like crazy.

I know...I was asked. Told them to shove and ran my own business till I was in my late 70s. It was the right choice.

[JSM_Liberty]

It is a $19 billion project

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-jfk-airport-construction-sets-record-mwbe-participation-23-billion

“As the $19 billion JFK project moves forward”

[CivilWarBrewing]

TAX-FUNDED, so I'm guessing these were minorities and women-ONLY that were TAXED for this?

WHITES ARE MINORITIES NOW, KATHY HO-SHILL !!!!

[LegendHasIt]

Well, at least it is just renovation rather than design and construct. with some good luck, they won’t remove any load bearing components.

[faithhopecharity]

We won’t be flying into there.

[allendale]

Non minority contractors should still make credible bids. When they are denied based on race or gender, they can demonstrate harm and their lawsuits will be more likely to succeed or stop the biased project entirely.

[neverevergiveup]

Wasn't a woman-owned engineering firm responsible for the pedestrian walkway bridge that collapsed 6 years ago at Florida International University?

[plain talk]

Can you imagine a politician in today's world mandating that a $2.3B contract be awarded exclusively to white-owned businesses?

Of course the dirty little secret is there is no thing as 'white'. Almost all so-called 'white' people are a mix of races and ethnic groups. IMO it's racist to even call them white.