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Kelly Loeffler: “The SBA has been tasked with leading a strike force, a…”

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Published January 9, 2026 | Video Starts at 22:55

We're dependent on them for every piece of manufacturing. But we also know that we've overregulated our manufacturing sector. So even manufacturing in pharma can be very hard in this country. And The SBA has been tasked with leading a strike force, a deregulatory strike force. As an agency under statute, we have the ability to work across every federal agency to help deregulate and get out of the way of those that want to build and grow in this country. (22:55–23:02)

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“$1.2 trillion in federal funds went out through the SBA. That was in the form of the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury…”
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“Small businesses, which make up 99% of all businesses in this country that employ nearly half our workforce, there's 36 million of them now.”
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“When I served in the Senate, I was the only chartered financial analyst to ever serve in Congress.”
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“The president has brought in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, trillions in commitments to build in this country.”
$400 Million in Loans Being Investigated for Fraud | SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler | Uploaded January 9, 2026 | 17:40-17:48
“Thousands of factories, maybe 50,000, 70,000 factories were scraped from America and millions of jobs were lost.”
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“We worked through the holidays from Thanksgiving up to New year's on about 20,000 different files, found about 8,000 instances of fraudulent…”
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“During the Biden administration, they had never cracked down on fraud.”
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“We are now, because of this blueprint we have, we're going to be able to go state by state and see where people have defrauded the federal…”
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“Under the Biden administration, they quickly started forgiving fraudulent actors, loans that were already fraught, fraud flagged.”
$400 Million in Loans Being Investigated for Fraud | SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler | Uploaded January 9, 2026 | 04:06-04:16
“The SBA was dormant under President Biden. 90% of the employees worked from home for four years.”
$400 Million in Loans Being Investigated for Fraud | SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler | Uploaded January 9, 2026 | 05:35-05:43
“We have about 5,000 [banks] signed up within our agency.”
$400 Million in Loans Being Investigated for Fraud | SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler | Uploaded January 9, 2026 | 06:11-06:15
“Normally we have a low default rate, maybe less than 2% on a good day.”
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“I was part of taking not one company public, but two.”
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“I also started a company that is now a public company in the crypto space.”
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“Thanks to President Trump's leadership and, sadly, his own personal experience and that of his family, we understand that debanking is a…”
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“We now have the executive order that the SBA was charged with being part of the regulatory group, the occ, the FDIC and the Fed to…”
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“We led the charge in sending out 5,000 letters.”
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“Under Obama, it really started with operation choke point 1.0, where they started defunding, debanking, disfavored people.”
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“They even went as far under the Biden administration to put it into the regulatory apparatus so that you'd be penalized as a regulated…”
$400 Million in Loans Being Investigated for Fraud | SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler | Uploaded January 9, 2026 | 13:50-14:00
“We sent out letters, got a very good response. Continue to go through those responses in collaboration with the regulatory agencies.”
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“To use the banking system to be a choke point for disfavored political people is objectly wrong. And the President is reversing that.”
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“The DOJ will be probably part of the broader response once we have all the responses.”
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“The working families tax cut was so important because you have 100% expensing of made in America factories.”
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“I've had many factory workers tell me that they're going to work more hours because their overtime is not going to be taxed away now.”
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“In my first month, I announced our Made in America manufacturing tour and all the programs that go with it.”
$400 Million in Loans Being Investigated for Fraud | SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler | Uploaded January 9, 2026 | 20:44-20:51
“We've thrown our support behind Made in America Manufacturing act, which raises our loan limits to $10 million from $5 million.”
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“When I was in the Senate, I introduced the Beat China act, which was to bring manufacturing back onshore.”
$400 Million in Loans Being Investigated for Fraud | SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler | Uploaded January 9, 2026 | 22:32-22:39
“Biden put additional tariffs on China even after President Trump did.”
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“Federal contracting and the fraud that happens within it in Washington D.C. around these programs are probably the worst kept secret in…”
$400 Million in Loans Being Investigated for Fraud | SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler | Uploaded January 9, 2026 | 24:39-24:48
“There's been some very high profile DOJ actions last year that highlighted the wrongs of the eight program.”
$400 Million in Loans Being Investigated for Fraud | SBA Chief Kelly Loeffler | Uploaded January 9, 2026 | 25:01-25:11
“The federal government's a trillion dollar spender. So this is every year.”
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“We have an investigation, a 15 year look back audit going on.”
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“Socially and economically disadvantaged contracts are awarded right now to about 4,300 firms.”
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“If they don't respond to the letters with the requested financial information...we are going to remove them from the program.”
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“We're all working together like never before for the best president in American history.”
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