Our intention was to invest in entrepreneurs and small businesses by expanding the reach of business centers that provide high quality technical assistance to minority business enterprises, including counseling and mentoring, assisting with access to capital and contracts, and supporting job creation and retention. That recent bipartisan accomplishment, led by many members of this committee and again on a bipartisan basis, has been dismissed by this administration, which is set on eliminating the agency and closing the business centers in our states. President Trump, in dismantling the Minority Business Development Agency, issued an executive order that requires a report. (00:52–01:10)
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Asserts that the current administration is set on eliminating the Minority Business Development Agency and closing business centers.
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