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08/20/2025

‘Adapt or Die’

Federal contractors are reinventing themselves after DOGE

Shortly after President Donald Trump took office in January, Vanessa Best received a flurry of emails from federal agencies that her company, Precision HealthCare Consultants, had worked with for years.

"The first email said, 'We need you to confirm that you will cease unlawful DEI practices,'" she said.

Best was puzzled. The founder and CEO had seen the president's executive order, signed on day one of his second term, terminating all diversity, equity and inclusion-related work by the federal government and its contractors. But as far as Best knew, nothing her three-decade-old, Baldwin, New York-based company did for the government had anything to do with that.

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