If he had a line-item veto it’d be gone.
I’ve got a service related disability and still think this is “yet another un-needed law.”
Many of the HUB Zone firms are set up by savy operators and have little to do with creating jobs in disadvantaged areas — in other words, vehicles for Federal Contracts.
The Service Disabled firms are vastly under capitalized to perform contracts of any size. It is extremely difficult to have the insurance, prevailing wage capability and business capital to work on Federal projects — some with many of the toughest standards in the construction industry.
I have had projects with hundreds of supplier and subcontractor bids and despite efforts to generate interest, no SDV bids were recieved.