Trump Officials Plan To Drop Army's Preference For Blind Vendors in Dining Halls

[essentialsaltes]

The notice states that Army dining halls will no longer give blind applicants the same priority after the Trump administration determined doing so “adversely affects the interests of the United States.”

The Education Department oversees what’s known as the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program, which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.

“The Army reports significant price and efficiency issues due to the requirement, impacting military readiness and imposing undue burdens on the Army,” Biedermann said.

The notice states that the Department of the Army currently has at least 23 dining facility contracts that were awarded through the program. There are more than 1,000 licensed blind vendors across the country, many of them helping provide concessions on military bases.

“The mentality of these people is if we have a disability and we have a job, we’re taking it away from an able-bodied person,” they said.

What are they complaining about? Now they can just sit on their blind butts and collect disability.

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Education Secretary Linda McMahon has apparently decided that giving blind entrepreneurs priority at Army dining halls "adversely affects" U.S. interests.

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[DaisyDay]

The notice states that Army dining halls will no longer give blind applicants the same priority after the Trump administration determined doing so “adversely affects the interests of the United States.”

The Education Department oversees what’s known as the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program, which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.

“The Army reports significant price and efficiency issues due to the requirement, impacting military readiness and imposing undue burdens on the Army,” Biedermann said.

The notice states that the Department of the Army currently has at least 23 dining facility contracts that were awarded through the program. There are more than 1,000 licensed blind vendors across the country, many of them helping provide concessions on military bases.

“The mentality of these people is if we have a disability and we have a job, we’re taking it away from an able-bodied person,” they said.

What are they complaining about? Now they can just sit on their blind butts and collect disability.

Trump's Latest Target In His Anti-DEI Rampage: Blind Workers

Education Secretary Linda McMahon has apparently decided that giving blind entrepreneurs priority at Army dining halls "adversely affects" U.S. interests.

www.huffpost.com

So going after DEI was insufficient, now the administration is going after DEIA, with the A standing for Accessibility.

 

[Laodicean60]

LOL, I love how we get manipulated by sensational media titles; Then the first sentence says "The Department of the Army plans to “limit” a longstanding preference the federal government has given to blind vendors, according to a notice scheduled to be published in the federal register this week.

 

[essentialsaltes]

LOL, I love how we get manipulated by sensational media titles; Then the first sentence says "The Department of the Army plans to “limit” a longstanding preference the federal government has given to blind vendors

Headline states it all correctly. The Randolph Sheppard Act applies to all sorts of government contracts. But now it no longer applies to food vending for the Army.

 

[Nithavela]

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