Contractors fear retaliation if they try to recover shutdown costs

Contractors who sell to the federal government have certain rights to recoup costs inflicted by the federal shutdown, but will they dare to exercise them?“After the DOGE actions to eviscerate USAID and pretty much punish many, many agencies and terminate thousands of contracts, I think the contractor community is tentative to actually enforce their rights,” David Dixon, an attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, said Thursday as part of the law firm's DC Disrupted webinar s