The US Senate approved Kelly Loeffler on Wednesday to direct the Federal Development Agency of the Small Business (SBA), bringing back a loyal follower of President Donald Trump to Washington.
The United States Senate confirmed Kelly Loeffler, a businesswoman from Georgia and former senator on Wednesday, to lead the Federal Agency for the Development of the Small Company of the United States (SBA), returning to a firm party of the president Donald Trump to Washington.
In the SBA, Loeffler will supervise the entity that describes itself as the only federal agency at the cabinet level “totally dedicated to small businesses” by providing “advice, capital and hiring experience as the only resource and voice of the country for small businesses ”.
Typically, the agency – which was founded in 1953 – offers loans for economic damage to disasters to help meet the needs of working capital caused by a disaster, loans that can be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable and others expenses that would have been covered if it were not for the disaster.
The Senate confirmed Loeffler with a 52-46 vote.
Loeffler, who co -presided Trump's second inaugural committee, briefly served in the United States Senate in the last year of the president's first mandate. By appointing her to the Senate to complete the mandate of Johnny Isakson, Georgia's republican governor Brian Kemp, told Loeffler as a successor in the moderate mold of the Republican.
But facing an immediate re -election campaign in 2020, Loeffler lined up closely with Trump to avoid challenges of his right flank, characterizing herself as “more conservative than holding hunters.”
She and also Republican David Perdue, another Trump ally, advanced to the second round of January 2021 after a November election in which Trump defeated Trump in little in Georgia. Trump infamously pressed the Republican Secretary of State for Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to change the results, and then criticized Raffensperger and Kemp for not helping to cancel the choice.
Loeffler requested Raffensperger's resignation after Biden's victory in the state certified.
Loeffler's confirmation also adds another member of the Cabinet of significant wealth to the second government of the billionaire president.
Loeffler – an expropientary and executive of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) who during his brief step by Capitol Hill was the richest member of the Senate – is married to Jeffrey Sprecher, general director of Intercontinental Exchange, the firm that quotes in the stock market and which has the New York Stock Exchange.