While the Green New Deal never officially passed, the Biden-Harris administration has been steady at work pushing its objectives, going as far as diverting funds intended for small businesses towards “green” organizations and initiatives.
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Senators Joni Ernst of Iowa, James Risch of Idaho and Marco Rubio of Florida on August 9 sent a letter to Small Business Administration (SBA) head Isabel Guzman, accusing her agency of undermining Community Advantage, a program intended to provide loans to small businesses, by enrolling new lenders that will focus on “support[ing] small businesses' efforts to reduce climate change.” The group of lawmakers also voiced suspicion regarding the SBA's recent collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Reduction Fund, noting that the SBA's July 22 announcement that it would be coordinating with the multi-billion dollar green energy grant program came right after Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
“Once again, Vice President Kamala Harris is funneling tax dollars into Green New Deal handouts,” Ernst told the DCNF. “The federal government exists to serve the American people, not as a slush fund for Kamala Harris' campaign. Small businesses have been put through the wringer under this administration, and the SBA needs to be focused on delivering relief, not getting out the vote for radical climate mandates in swing states on the taxpayer's dime.”
The American middle class has been hit especially hard over the last four years, but the Biden-Harris administration seems indifferent to their struggles at best and openly hostile at worst, with this move as a perfect example. Instead of providing entrepreneurs with loans designed to stabilize and boost their businesses, they're turning those funds over to their ideological allies. While Americans are divided on “climate change” and the benefits of the government trying to combat it, they overwhelmingly report mounting economic and financial pressure. But instead of addressing what's most important to their citizens, the Biden-Harris administration is focused on partisan political issues.
Kamala Harris was one of the earliest and most enthusiastic senators to publicly back the Green New Deal since it was originally introduced, and co-sponsored it was originally introduced.
As small business owners voice anxiety about the state of the economy, the SBA has announced that it will allow a limitless number of 504 loans for “clean energy projects” in a maneuver the three senators say will lower “the availability of capital to other small businesses such as manufacturers.” Through 504 loans, the SBA offers small businesses fixed-rate loans worth up to $5.5 million to purchase assets that promote business growth and job creation.
This isn't the first time the Biden-Harris administration has been accused of using the SBA for political purposes. Their voter registration endeavors in Michigan followed a disturbing pattern, only active in Democratic strongholds.
“Based on some of the evidence we've seen, there is absolutely cause for concern that the Biden administration's SBA is targeting certain demographics as part of its partisan voter registration effort,” AFPI executive director for litigation Mike Berry told the DCNF at the time. “For example, there is evidence to suggest that the SBA's largest presence is in the Michigan counties with the highest concentrations of registered Democrat voters, while at the same time it is least active in the Michigan counties with the highest concentrations of small businesses and registered Republican voters per capita.”
