{"id":14525,"date":"2025-03-21T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/small-business-administration-cutting-43-of-staff-in-latest-move-to-downsize-executive-branch\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:02:26","slug":"small-business-administration-cutting-43-of-staff-in-latest-move-to-downsize-executive-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/small-business-administration-cutting-43-of-staff-in-latest-move-to-downsize-executive-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Administration cutting 43% of staff in latest move to downsize executive branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington <\/em>\u2014 The Small Business Administration on Friday said it is cutting more than 40% of its staff as part of the Trump administration&#8217;s\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/what-is-doge-elon-musk-findings-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">wider effort<\/a><\/span> to shrink the federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 6,500 people, or less than half-a-percent of the entire federal workforce, are employed at the SBA, according to the most recent data available. The agency said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/sba.gov\/article\/2025\/03\/21\/small-business-administration-announces-agency-wide-reorganization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a> that it will &#8220;reduce its workforce by 43%.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The strategic reorganization will begin a turnaround for the agency by restoring the efficiency of the first Trump Administration, as well as its focus on promoting small businesses,&#8221; the agency said. &#8220;Core services to the public, including the agency&#8217;s loan guarantee and disaster assistance programs, as well as its field and veteran operations, will not be impacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted to confirm former Sen. Kelly Loeffler to as the agency&#8217;s administrator in February. In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SBA_Kelly\/status\/1903088523604881595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video<\/a>\u00a0posted to X on Friday, Loeffler said it&#8217;s time to &#8220;rightsize the agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the pandemic, the SBA has doubled its workforce, expanding in size, scope and spending with miserable results,&#8221; Loeffler said in the video. &#8220;That&#8217;s why change is coming to the SBA. &#8230; This agency is done wasting millions of tax dollars to fund a progressive pandemic-era bureaucracy. We will not allow fiscal mismanagement to threaten our loan programs or criminals to get away with fraud. But we will evaluate every program and expenditure and we will rightsize the agency to transform the SBA into a high-efficiency engine for America&#8217;s entrepreneurs and taxpayers.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Kelly Loeffler, President Trump's nominee to lead the Small Business Administration, testifies at her confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, 2025. \" height=\"415\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/21\/8e9857fb-1019-4363-b732-3f9d5a04e894\/thumbnail\/620x415g1\/c0d9d1c54b696b79b3f9a57b8b9f33f7\/gettyimages-2196636100.jpg?v=9e5c48f1b04ac2a564e8a4c51250ac89 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/21\/8e9857fb-1019-4363-b732-3f9d5a04e894\/thumbnail\/1240x830g1\/4138ad51f14312384c1578b2e3518138\/gettyimages-2196636100.jpg?v=9e5c48f1b04ac2a564e8a4c51250ac89 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Kelly Loeffler, President Trump&#8217;s nominee to lead the Small Business Administration, testifies at her confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Staff is spread out in district offices across the country. Texas has more SBA employees than any state, including the District of Columbia, where the agency is headquartered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the White House on Friday morning, President Trump announced that SBA will be responsible for handling federal student loan programs, one day after signing an order to begin <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-executive-order-education-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">winding down the Department of Education<\/a><\/span>, which currently manages the programs. Experts <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-education-department-executive-order-student-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">warned<\/a><\/span> that the order could throw student loans into disarray and lead to frustration for millions of borrowers. Administration officials have previously said that student loan programs would eventually be transferred to an agency like the SBA or the Treasury or Commerce Departments.<\/p>\n<p>The SBA was established by an act of Congress in 1953 when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president to &#8220;aid, counsel, assist and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small business concerns.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It provides loans to businesses that fall victim to natural disasters and offers support on international trade issues. The agency&#8217;s federally backed loans and grants were a lifeline to small businesses and nonprofit groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n      <em><\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/arden-farhi\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Arden Farhi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.<br \/>\n      <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/ed-okeefe\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ed O&#8217;Keefe<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__image\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/ed-okeefe\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n              <span class=\"img \"><img alt=\"headshot-600-ed-okeefe.jpg \" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/17\/e9fb0377-eec7-4474-8172-70b5f3166d00\/thumbnail\/80x80\/39cacf631cf52fc650cbb1067a1c391a\/headshot-600-ed-okeefe.jpg?v=9e5c48f1b04ac2a564e8a4c51250ac89 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/17\/e9fb0377-eec7-4474-8172-70b5f3166d00\/thumbnail\/160x160\/5c0f0fda62f826c187379a6c0d786f9f\/headshot-600-ed-okeefe.jpg?v=9e5c48f1b04ac2a564e8a4c51250ac89 2x\"\/><\/span><br \/>\n            <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Ed O&#8217;Keefe is CBS News senior White House and political correspondent. 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