25. Small Business Administration · Notable

End the SBA's bid to become a 'designated voter agency'

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Printed page 749 25. Small Business Administration

“Several other specific concerns include but are not limited to: … The SBA’s request to become a “designated voter agency” in response to President Biden’s executive order on “Promoting Access to Voting.””

What has happened

Apr 29, 2025 Done
The SBA's first-100-days release records "terminating the Biden-era MOU with the Michigan Secretary of State's office" among the executive orders it had enacted. The agreement that made the SBA a designated voter registration agency in Michigan is gone and the request it rested on has no live parent order. The release does not give the date of termination, only that it had happened by 2025-04-29.
- SBA news release 25-46: first 100 days accomplishments — "terminating the Biden-era MOU with the Michigan Secretary of State's office"
  Primary Executive branch Apr 29, 2025
Mar 25, 2025 Attempted
EO 14248 §9 ordered the heads of all agencies to cease every agency action implementing EO 14019 and to report compliance to the President within 90 days — a government-wide directive reaching the SBA's request but not itself a record that the SBA had withdrawn it.
- EO 14248, Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections — §9, Federal Actions to Address Executive Order 14019
  Primary Executive branch Mar 25, 2025
Feb 24, 2025 Attempted
Administrator Loeffler's Day One priorities memo committed the SBA to "end all taxpayer-funded voter registration activities — starting by rescinding the agency's 2024 Memorandum of Understanding with the Michigan Secretary of State's office". A stated intention, not yet the act.
- SBA news release 25-32: Administrator Loeffler issues memo on Day One priorities ("Ending partisan voter registration activities")
  Primary Executive branch Feb 24, 2025
Jan 20, 2025 Attempted
EO 14148 revoked EO 14019 ("Promoting Access to Voting"), the order the SBA's designation request answered. The revocation removed the instruction the request rested on; it did not by itself withdraw the request or unwind the agreement the SBA had already signed.
- EO 14148, Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions — §2 revocation list includes "Executive Order 14019 of March 7, 2021 (Promoting Access to Voting)"
  Primary Executive branch Jan 20, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

The Quote names the SBA’s request to be designated a voter agency under EO 14019. In practice that request took the form of a 2024 Memorandum of Understanding with the Michigan Secretary of State under the National Voter Registration Act. Three instruments bear on it and they are dated separately per playbook §4: the revocation of the parent order (EO 14148), the agency’s own commitment (the Day One memo), the government-wide cease-and-report directive (EO 14248 §9), and the record that the MOU was actually terminated.
done rather than partial because the named object — the designation arrangement — no longer exists and the order it answered has been revoked. The termination date itself is not published; the event is dated to the release that reports it, and the note says so.
No Federal Register document in the window records an SBA voter-agency designation or its withdrawal; NVRA designations are made by States, not published in the FR.

Action: withdraw
Object: SBA request for designation as a voter agency under Executive Order 14019
ID: 2031