"Ranking Member Markey Demands Answers on Musk and DOGE Meddling in the Small Business Administration"
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A press release dated February 6, 2025 reporting that Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) wrote to SBA Acting Administrator Everett Woodel about reports that the SBA granted individuals associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to all SBA data and payment systems. The quoted letter calls the reported access to confidential information of small businesses, homeowners and renters deeply troubling and raises privacy and data security concerns. The release states that last fiscal year SBA provided $37.7 billion in loan assistance and disaster loans totaling a combined $1.6 billion. It adds that during the COVID pandemic SBA provided more than 22.1 million loans and grants totaling $1.2 trillion.
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Title: Ranking Member Markey Demands Answers on Musk and DOGE Meddling in the Small Business Administration Date: 2025-02-06 Ranking Member Markey Demands Answers on Musk and DOGE Meddling in the Small Business Administration February 6, 2025 Washington (February 6) – Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Small Business Administration (SBA) Acting Administrator Everett Woodel demanding answers about reports that the SBA granted individuals associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to all SBA data and payment systems. Click here to read the full letter. In the letter, Ranking Member Markey wrote: “The SBA’s apparent complicity in this unlawful incursion and unauthorized access to the private and confidential information of millions of small businesses, homeowners, and renters nationwide who have utilized SBA’s programs — including its business loan and disaster assistance programs — is deeply troubling.” Markey continued: “Allowing Elon Musk’s minions access to the sensitive information in the SBA’s systems raises privacy, data security, and other serious concerns.” Last fiscal year, SBA provided $37.7 billion in loan assistance and made disaster loans to nearly 10,000 small businesses and 18,000 homeowners and renters totaling a combined $1.6 billion. During the COVID pandemic, SBA provided more than 22.1 million loans and grants to small business, totaling $1.2 trillion. Permalink: https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2025/2/ranking-member-markey-demands-answers-on-musk-and-doge-meddling-in-the-small-business-administration
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