What’s been designed here is a project that ensures a fossil fuel agenda, both in the literal and figurative sense.
Small Business Administration
established a new role for the Office of Advocacy: “to facilitate greater consideration of small business economic issues during international trade negotiations.”“
This small office has been relatively effective over the years—and more productive during periods when a strong Chief Counsel for Advocacy has been installed to utilize the Office of Advocacy’s authority aggressively to provide a check on regulatory overreach. The office is one of the bright spots within the SBA that a conservative Administration could supercharge to dismantle extreme regulatory policies and advance limited-government reforms that promote economic freedom and opportunity.
Currently, the SBA’s four core functions include:
• Access to capital. SBA maintains assorted financing and lending programs for small businesses, from microlending to debt and equity investment capital.
• Entrepreneurial development programs. SBA provides “free” or lowcost training at more than 1,800 locations and through online platforms
and webinars.
• Government contracting support programs. Through goals established by the SBA for federal departments and agencies, the broader goal is to ensure that small businesses win 23 percent of prime contracts.
• Advocacy. This independent office within the SBA works to ensure that federal agencies consider small businesses’ concerns and impact in rulemakings. The office also conducts small-business research.
BUDGETARY FLUCTUATION
SBA’s budget and programs have expanded significantly under some Administrations and have been scaled back under others. President Ronald Reagan cut the SBA’s budget by more than 30 percent, and his annual budgets regularly proposed to eliminate the agency altogether.’ Under President George W. Bush, SBA Administrator Hector Barreto said that SBA’s goal was “to do more with less,” but this changed because of Hurricane Katrina and a surge in disaster funding. In 2016, President Barack Obama considered streamlining and combining SBA programs and other business-related agencies and programs under one entity at the U.S. Department of Commerce, but opposition within the small-business lobby in Washington scuttled the effort.”
In general, SBA budget fluctuations have been driven by several factors such as efforts by Administrations either to cut or to greatly expand programs, the need to boost disaster assistance because of economic or weather-related events, business
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