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Oversight of SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurial Development

House Committee on Small Business · July 16, 2026

A House Small Business Committee oversight hearing examined the SBA Office of Entrepreneurial Development’s recent grant-management overhaul, a pause in reimbursements and a $340 million backlog of unpaid grant obligations. Lawmakers from both parties pressed Associate Administrator Paul Fitzpatrick about safeguards, delayed payments to resource partners (SCORE, SBDCs, WBCs, STEP) and proposed budget cuts to entrepreneurial development programs.

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