; or (B) a Federal personal services contractor receiving covered funds, former such Federal personal services contractor, or applicant for a Federal personal services contract involving such funds; (8) the term reprisal means an action (or, as applicable, inaction) that is discharging, demoting, blacklisting, or acting or failing to take an action in a manner prejudicial against, or otherwise discriminating against in any way (including in the hiring process and including by the threat of any such action or inaction) a protected individual as described in section 3(a)(1) for a reason described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of such section; and (9) the term State or local government means— (A) the government of each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or any other territory or possession of the United States