*Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott’s work with the Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to support minority-owned businesses is teetering on self-destruction due to conflict with the Trump administration.
Politico, citing a Commerce employee and a Democratic staffer granted anonymity to discuss personnel matters, reports the program, which funds grants to business owners and provides technical assistance, support and mentorship, has had 100 percent of its staff, about 50 people, placed on administrative leave or redistributed within the Commerce Department.
The move conflicts Scott’s work over the years in prioritizing efforts to expand access to capital and economic mobility for underserved communities, like the one he says he grew up in, and minority businesses such as his own Main Street insurance agency.
Although the MBDA’s work dates back to the Nixon administration, Scott’s public silence regarding the agency’s gutting has become a major concern. At
“They are watching this happen, and they are doing nothing. That’s cowardice. And it cuts especially deep when the people you once believed were your champions turn their backs in silence,” a Commerce Department employee said of Scott’s and other Republicans’ silence on cuts to the program.
I mean is anybody really surprised?
That's because I love you more than anything.
What a disgrace.
Politico, citing a Commerce employee and a Democratic staffer granted anonymity to discuss personnel matters, reports the program, which funds grants to business owners and provides technical assistance, support and mentorship, has had 100 percent of its staff, about 50 people, placed on administrative leave or redistributed within the Commerce Department.
The move conflicts Scott’s work over the years in prioritizing efforts to expand access to capital and economic mobility for underserved communities, like the one he says he grew up in, and minority businesses such as his own Main Street insurance agency.
Although the MBDA’s work dates back to the Nixon administration, Scott’s public silence regarding the agency’s gutting has become a major concern. At
“They are watching this happen, and they are doing nothing. That’s cowardice. And it cuts especially deep when the people you once believed were your champions turn their backs in silence,” a Commerce Department employee said of Scott’s and other Republicans’ silence on cuts to the program.
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I mean is anybody really surprised?
That's because I love you more than anything.
What a disgrace.
