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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

Inspector General Mike "Hannibal" Ware Statement for the Record before the Senate Committee on Small Business

Published on May 2, 2019 by Office of Inspector General

On May 1, Inspector General Hannibal "Mike" Ware provided testimony before the U.S. Senate, Committee on Small Business. The hearing was titled, “Reauthorization of SBA's Entrepreneurial Development Programs.”

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