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Edward Markey: “Trump's SBA is barring any small business owned by an…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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And while small businesses are struggling with skyrocketing health care costs, spiking electricity prices and havoc caused by Trump's tariffs, the Small Business Administration has cut off loans for American job creators. Rather than supporting hard working entrepreneurs, Trump's SBA is barring any small business owned by an immigrant who is lawfully in the country from receiving any SBA loans. That means that even if a small business is is owned, even in small part by green card holders, asylees, refugees, DACA recipients of visa holders, they are barred from receiving SBA loans. (01:00–01:14)

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Asserts that the SBA is denying loans to immigrant-owned businesses.

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