The top Republicans on the House and Senate Small Business committees are calling on the Small Business Administration to comply with oversight after they launched an investigation into potential electioneering activities.
“The House and Senate Committees on Small Business have a constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the SBA,” Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said in a joint statement shared with the Washington Examiner.
“To little surprise, Biden’s SBA has continued to stonewall and ignore legitimate requests from both Committees. We are extremely disappointed that the agency has chosen this path, nevertheless, we’re not stopping our joint efforts to get answers on behalf of the American people,” they added.
The House committee, led by Williams, subpoenaed SBA chief of staff Arthur Plews and adviser Tyler Robinson after the two did not attend a scheduled interview and failed to turn over documents the committee requested.
The investigation is surrounding SBA’s collaboration with the Michigan Department of State on a program “to promote civic engagement and voter registration in Michigan,” according to a press release that came out last month. The Michigan Department of State would generate a link for SBA to use to drive online visitors to register to vote. The agency’s Michigan field office would also allow officials to hold voter registration events. The outreach effort comes as President Joe Biden’s campaign focuses on Michigan as a critical state to win.
Ernst, the ranking member on the panel in the upper chamber, recently sent a letter to SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman, demanding answers after an undercover video was posted on X by a conservative video activist showing an adviser talking about how “Guzman travels across the country to help elect Democrats.”
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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