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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

Testimony of Inspector General Hannibal "Mike" Ware before the House Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations

Published on October 1, 2020 by Office of Inspector General

On October 1, 2020, Inspector General Hannibal "Mike" Ware provided testimony before the Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations in the U.S. House of Representatives. The hearing was titled "Preventing Fraud and Abuse of PPP and EIDL: An Update with the SBA Office of Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office.”

Related programs: Credit/Capital, Disaster, Pandemic Oversight

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