Terminate ineffective SBA programs and consolidate duplicative functions

What has happened

1. Jun 5, 2026 Partially done

   A second agency-wide reorganization consolidates duplicative functions across the agency — data analysts, economists, grants management and acquisition staff into the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; IT staff into the Office of the Chief Information Officer; human-resources staff into the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer; attorneys and paralegals into the Office of General Counsel; disaster functions into the Office of Disaster Recovery — "to reduce significant duplication across areas like technology, finance, and human resources". The release records that in 2025 the agency cut roughly $300 million in annual spending, terminated or paused more than 120 contracts and consolidated nearly half of its leases. Still `partial`: the terminations rest on executive discretion rather than on the congressional action the Quote asks for, and the agency is standing up new offices of its own (a Faith Office and an Office of Rural Affairs) in the same document.

   • SBA news release 26-57: “SBA Announces Agency-Wide Reorganization to Modernize, Drive Operational Efficiency, and Enhance Accountability to Taxpayers”

     Primary Executive branch Jun 5, 2026

2. Apr 3, 2026 Partially done

   The FY2027 Budget asks Congress to make the terminations statutory and to move the money the way the Quote describes. It eliminates the Entrepreneurial Development Programs account (–$309 million), naming SCORE and the $100 million Community Navigator Pilot Program and citing the Inspector General's finding that the SBA "did not adequately measure and monitor the program, and overstated performance", while keeping $21.4 million for veterans; it cuts Salaries and Expenses by $170 million and proposes a lender administrative fee to cover $158 million of business-loan administration; and it raises the Office of Advocacy from $10.109 million to $14.109 million, the only SBA account in the request that grows. Congress has moved the other way so far: it enacted $330 million for Entrepreneurial Development Programs for FY2026, above the $316.8 million of FY2025.

   • Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2027 — Small Business Administration chapter

     Primary Executive branch Apr 3, 2026

   • SBA FY2027 Congressional Budget Justification and FY2025 Annual Performance Report

     Primary Executive branch Apr 3, 2026

3. Mar 21, 2025 Partially done

   The SBA terminated programs and consolidated functions administratively, without waiting for Congress. Its agency-wide reorganization cut the workforce by 43%, named the Green Lender Initiative, the Community Navigator Pilot Program and DEI activities as the "suite of new progressive programs" being ended, centralized risk management and fraud prevention in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, moved disaster loan servicing into the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience, and eliminated redundant pandemic-era positions in the Office of Capital Access — while exempting the Office of Advocacy and the Inspector General from reductions, which is the reallocation toward Advocacy the Quote names. Congress terminated nothing; the executive did what it could reach.

   • SBA news release 25-38: “Small Business Administration Announces Agency-Wide Reorganization” (43% workforce reduction; Green Lender Initiative and Community Navigator named)

     Primary Executive branch Mar 21, 2025