WASHINGTON—Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak will testify before the United States Senate this week on a federal DEI program riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse. Rosiak will address lawmakers during a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee hearing titled “Running Government Like a Small Business: Cut Waste, Crush Fraud.” He will speak on the 8(a) program, one of the largest and oldest DEI initiatives in the country, which affects contracts at almost all federal agencies. Rosiak has led the charge in exposing problems with 8(a), which sets aside government contracts for firms run by members of certain “disadvantaged” classes, largely racial and ethnic minorities. Rosiak, who last month won the 2025 Dao Prize for his work covering extraordinary government waste, has exposed countless 8(a) program abuses. The Department of Justice found that the 8(a) program had been exploited to carry out a $550 million bribery scheme over several decades. The program became vulnerable to abuse through “pass-through” fraud, in which minority-owned businesses would win a federal contract through a no-bid process, collect a cut of the funds, and then subcontract another company to do the actual work needed for the contract. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler are investigating the misuse, which independent journalist James O’Keefe describes as a potential $100 billion scandal. The upcoming hearing aims to highlight the full extent of the waste, fraud, and abuse that investigators say took place. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), who chairs the small business committee, recently introduced the Stop 8(a) Contracting Fraud Act to place a hold on all new no-bid federal contracts until the 8(a) program, dramatically expanded under President Joe Biden as part of a DEI initiative, undergoes a full audit. While Rosiak will focus on fraud within the 8(a) program, two other witnesses will address additional areas of waste, including misuse of COVID funds and USAID grants: Open the Books CEO John Hart, and Courtney LaFountain, Acting Director of the Government Accountability Office. “If a small business treated their finances like the government treats tax dollars, they would go out of business,” Ernst said. “This has always been an issue in Washington, but under Joe Biden it became an all-you-can-eat buffet of waste, fraud, and abuse with criminals and con artists cashing in while hardworking Americans were left out in the cold. I look forward to hearing from our expert witnesses on where Congress should focus our continued efforts to downsize the bloated bureaucracy, increase government efficiency, and best serve small businesses.” The hearing will take place on Wednesday, December 10 at 2:30 p.m.