The Honorable Kelly Loeffler, Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration (March 19, 2025)

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Letter dated March 19, 2025 from the House Committee on Small Business, with Roger Williams as Chairman, to Administrator Kelly Loeffler. The letter refers to the Committee's December 11, 2024 interim staff report on the Biden-Harris SBA's voter registration activities and implementation of Executive Order 14019. It states that the Committee has not received sufficient documents and lists outstanding documents and information, including communications regarding the MOU with the Michigan Department of State, calendars and travel itineraries of named SBA personnel, and Hatch Act reimbursement documents. The letter closes with a signature line for Roger Williams and a copy to Nydia M. Velázquez, Ranking Member.

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Date: 2025-03-19
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“The Honorable Kelly Loeffler, Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration (March 19, 2025).” Original at smallbusiness.house.gov, dated 2025-03-19. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2025-03-19-2025-03-19-housesbc-majority-letter-to-admin-loeffler-on-vr-prattach/, SHA-256 94c737f942000a1455fbb6ed3485c2749245c4c1186f10fce9649c33f2857642.

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March 19, 2025

The Honorable Kelly Loeffler
Administrator
U.S. Small Business Administration
409 3rd Street SW
Washington, DC 20416

Dear Administrator Loeffler:

On December 11, 2024, the House Committee on Small Business (Committee) released its
interim staff report on the Biden-Harris U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) voter
registration activities and partisan implementation of Executive Order 14019 Promoting Access to
Voting (E.O. 14019).1 The Committee’s interim report revealed unlawful electioneering efforts
highlighting the Biden-Harris Administration’s unresponsive, duplicative, and vague production
of documents to Congress.2 In response to Committee inquiries, former SBA Administrator
Guzman and her staff provided misleading and inconsistent testimony.3 Furthermore, the Biden-
Harris SBA defied a lawful subpoena and frustrated the separation of powers between Congress
and the Executive Branch, demonstrating a gross disregard for accountability and transparency to
the American people.

The Committee shares the Trump Administration’s commitments to government
accountability and election transparency. I am optimistic that the SBA, under your leadership, will
work with the Committee to uncover the truth about the SBA’s previous voter registration related
activities. On your first day, the Committee was pleased to see your commitment to rescinding the
SBA’s 2024 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Michigan Department of State.4 It
is imperative that the SBA continues to bring back its focus to helping Main Street America.

Last year, the Biden-Harris SBA failed to produce sufficient documents and information
that would shed light on its activities. For your reference, below is the list of outstanding
documents and information the Biden Administration withheld from the Committee:5

1
H. COMM. ON SMALL BUS., WEAPONIZING FEDERAL RESOURCES: INTERIM FINDINGS ON THE SBA’S MICHIGAN
VOTER REGISTRATION SCHEME (Dec. 11, 2024).
2
Id. at 29, 33.
3
Id. at 33.
4
See Press Release, U.S. Small Bus. Admin., SBA Administrator Loeffler Issues Memo on Day One Priorities (Feb.
24, 2025).
5
See Subpoena from Roger Williams, Chairman, H. Comm. on Small Bus., to Isabella C. Guzman, Adm’r, U.S.
Small Bus. Admin. (Jul. 30, 2024).
The Honorable Kelly Loeffler
March 19, 2025
Page 2 of 3

1. All communications, including Microsoft Teams messages, between and among SBA
personnel regarding E.O. 14019 and/or the MOU, from March 10, 2021, to present.

2. All communications between SBA personnel and third parties, including but not limited
to small business owners, associations, non-profits, and SBA resource partners in the
State of Michigan, regarding E.O. 14019 and/or the MOU, from March 10, 2021, to
present.

3. A full, unredacted copy of any implementation plans regarding this MOU.

4. Interim and final reports drafted and submitted to the White House regarding
implementation of the E.O. from March 1, 2021, through October 31, 2021.

5. Evidence sufficient to show whether the SBA engaged in any activity relating to voter
access or voter registration before the MOU's March 19, 2024 announcement.

6. The calendar for the following individuals from June 1, 2022, through December 2024:
a. Isabella Casillas Guzman;6
b. Dilawar Syed
c. Arthur Plews
d. Jennifer Kim7
e. Victor Parker
f. Destine Hicks
g. Geri Sanchez Aglipay
h. Laketa Henderson
i. Julie Verratti (up until she departed SBA)
j. Scott Harriford (up until he departed SBA)
k. The SBA individual appointed as the Michigan National Voter Registration Act
of 1993 (NVRA).

7. All travel itineraries for trips the following individuals have taken and are currently
scheduled to take in the future, including where, when, and with whom, from March 1,
2024, through the end of the year:
a. Isabella Casillas Guzman
b. Dilawar Syed
c. Arthur Plews
d. Jennifer Kim
e. Victor Parker
f. Destine Hicks
g. Geri Sanchez Aglipay

6
The Committee has received the calendar entries for Isabella Casillas Guzman from June 1, 2022—May 31, 2023.
7
The Committee has received the calendar entries for Jennifer Kim from June 1, 2022—December 31, 2022.
The Honorable Kelly Loeffler
March 19, 2025
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h. Laketa Henderson
i. Julie Verratti (up until she departed SBA)
j. Scott Harriford (up until he departed SBA)
k. The SBA individual appointed as the Michigan National Voter Registration Act
of 1993 (NVRA).

8. All trip summaries and/or related documents memorializing reimbursement for costs
associated with political activities under the Hatch Act, including all reimbursement
statements, for all trips encompassed in requests 6 and 7 of this letter.

9. All existing transcripts of remarks made by SBA personnel on trips encompassed in
requests 6 and 7 of this letter.

The Committee looks forward to working with the Trump Administration to uncover the
truth and vigorously support small businesses across the country. Please contact the Committee on
Small Business Majority Staff at (202) 225-5821 with any questions. The Committee has broad
authority to investigate “problems of all types of small business” under House Rule X. Thank you
in advance for your cooperation with this inquiry.

In God We Trust,

________________________
Roger Williams
Chairman
House Committee on Small Business

cc: The Honorable Nydia M. Velázquez, Ranking Member

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