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Special announcement

Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America’s 36 million small businesses.

Every day that Senate Democrats continue to oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.

As a result of the shutdown, we wanted to notify you that many of our services supporting small businesses are currently unavailable. The agency is executing its Lapse Plan and as soon as the shutdown is over, we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we were providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration.

If you need disaster assistance, please visit sba.gov/disaster.

Congressional testimony

Statement of Peggy E. Gustafson, Inspector General, U.S. Small Business Administration, Before the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, U.S. House of Representatives on April 10, 2013

Published on April 10, 2013 by Office of Inspector General

On April 10, 2013, SBA Inspector General Peggy E. Gustafson testified before the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. The purpose of the hearing was to discuss the OIG’s oversight activities of SBA programs and operations.

Related programs: Agency Management, SBA Operations

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