Biden's small business chief faces confrontation from Republicans over electioneering concerns and loan forgiveness.

The House will hold a hearing on Wednesday to question Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman about allegations of electioneering with taxpayer funds in Michigan.

On Monday, Rep. Roger Williams, the chair of the House Small Business Committee, announced that he will directly ask Guzman about alleged voter registration efforts by the agency in Democrat-heavy precincts of Michigan.

Williams stated that the Small Business Administration has consistently failed to provide transparency and has obstructed committee oversight.

"Our members require the administrator to provide a direct response regarding the feedback received from constituents about the disregard of small business concerns within the Biden-Harris administration."

In May, Williams and Ernst, his Senate counterpart from Iowa, started requesting documents and information from the SBA regarding its voter registration agreement with Michigan officials.

In March, the SBA entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Michigan Department of State under President Biden's Executive Order 14019, which aims to enhance voting access.

Since then, Williams and committee Republicans have been demanding information, including documents and travel schedules of top agency officials. The letter from the two lawmakers also cited Guzman as the "most-traveled" Cabinet member.

The committee has stated that SBA's compliance has been inadequate, with lawmakers asserting that the agency has "delayed and wasted time providing documents that did not meet the committee's requirements or were redundant."

Williams stated that the agency is redirecting its resources from helping Main Street to register Democratic voters.

The SBA spokesperson stated in August that the agency had given "extensive testimony, briefings, transcribed interviews, documents and other information in response to congressional inquiries, including the Committee’s most recent subpoena."

The spokesperson stated that the agency is still working to comply with the subpoena, despite having already provided the initial documents. Any accusation that the agency is engaging in unethical behavior or that its response has been anything other than cooperative is entirely false.

The Democrats on the panel have rejected the majority's demands, stating that their actions damage the panel's reputation.

In June, Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., told Planet Chronicle Digital that the House Small Business Committee takes pride in its bipartisan cooperation to support American entrepreneurs.

Unfortunately, with these subpoenas, Republicans have rejected these principles to pursue a partisan inquiry, according to Velazquez.

At least five derogatory mentions of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 were made in the committee's last session, according to a source with knowledge of the committee's work.

Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., and Velazquez had invoked the conservative advocacy group's work to refute Republican amendments aimed at reducing regulatory burdens on small businesses.

The project, Project 2025, has been criticized by Democrats as a link to Republican officeholders and former President Trump. Despite several of Trump's former Cabinet secretaries and top White House senior aides being authors of the project, Trump has denied any involvement in it.

Williams suggested that the SBA should concentrate on its initial purpose rather than voter registration in Michigan and other related issues.

"The truth about who the SBA is truly working for should be known to American taxpayers, as the last few years have been disastrous for Main Street America," he stated on Monday.

The committee will question Guzman about the agency's decision to stop collecting small business loans under $100,000, despite seeing billions of loan dollars go to fraudulent businesses.

The committee intends to discuss Vice President Harris' small business tax deduction proposals and their potential compatibility with plans to let the current 20% small business tax deduction expire.