>> Continued From the Previous Page <<
While Democrats dig in their heels, the consequences are devastating.
The SBA has frozen nearly 6,000 small business loans — worth an estimated $4 billion — that should be flowing into local communities. Every single day that Schumer blocks funding, about 320 small businesses lose access to $170 million in SBA-backed capital.
Thousands more with federal contracts have been hit with “stop work” orders, forcing layoffs and lost income. Companies that depend on federal workers as customers are watching their revenues vanish overnight.
“The SBA’s loan-guarantee programs have been halted, and Main Street’s capital has been choked off, because Senate Democrats are playing politics with lives and livelihoods,” Loeffler warned during a House GOP press conference.
This isn’t a byproduct of political gridlock — it’s economic sabotage.
Loeffler painted a grim picture of what’s happening to Main Street under Schumer’s shutdown.
“It’s our storefronts that are cutting back hours, manufacturers that are shelving expansion plans and generational businesses that are closing their doors for good,” she said. “It’s business they will never get back.”
Once these businesses shut their doors, they’re gone forever — and Schumer knows it.
Before Schumer slammed the brakes on government funding, America’s small business confidence was soaring.
Under President Trump’s leadership, the SBA set a 72-year lending record — more than $45 billion distributed to 85,000 small businesses nationwide. Demand for SBA capital had exceeded $100 billion for the first time ever, thanks to Trump’s low taxes, fair trade policies, and deregulation.
“That’s all thanks to President Trump’s economic agenda,” Loeffler told Fox Business. “It’s free and fair trade. It’s low taxes. It’s deregulation. It’s access to capital.”
Small businesses were thriving. Democrats saw it — and pulled the plug.
Schumer is holding the government hostage to make enhanced Obamacare subsidies permanent — a move that would cost taxpayers $350 billion over the next decade. Republicans have agreed to debate those subsidies after reopening the government. Schumer refuses.
The result? America bleeds $15 billion in economic losses every week the shutdown continues. Roughly 43,000 jobs disappear each month. And 20% of small businesses — those who rely on federal workers or contracts — are getting obliterated in the crossfire.
Even more infuriating, while Schumer pushes for trillions in new spending, Loeffler’s SBA has been cutting waste and running efficiently.
The agency has reduced its workforce by 52% since Trump took office, all while shattering performance records.
“We have done more with less, just like a small business would do,” Loeffler said. “We’re going to continue to look for efficiencies.”
While Republicans tighten budgets and focus on results, Democrats are demanding $1.5 trillion in new spending — and using the shutdown to get it.
Democrats want big government that “stifles small business” and “crowds out innovation,” Loeffler said.
House Republicans already passed a clean funding bill to reopen the government, but Schumer refuses to allow it to move forward. Only a handful of Democrats — John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto, and Independent Angus King — voted to break ranks and get Americans back to work.
“Senate Democrats have intentionally put that momentum at risk,” Loeffler declared. “This is having real economic consequences.”
The truth is no longer hidden: Schumer and his allies are deliberately targeting Main Street America to force Republicans into submission.
They’re not just shutting down the government — they’re shutting down the American Dream.
