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{"id":3259,"date":"2024-12-05T00:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T00:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kelly-loeffler-picked-to-serve-as-small-business-administrator\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T00:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T00:29:46","slug":"kelly-loeffler-picked-to-serve-as-small-business-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kelly-loeffler-picked-to-serve-as-small-business-administrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Loeffler picked to serve as small business administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler to lead the Small Business Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Loeffler, 53, is the current co-chair of Trump\u2019s second inaugural committee. She is also the former CEO of Bakkt, a commodity and cryptocurrency trading platform that Trump\u2019s Truth Social media company has been in talks to purchase. And she is married to billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/05\/20\/kelly-loeffler-trump-super-pac-272626\" target=\"_blank\">a Trump donor and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKelly will bring her experience in business and Washington to reduce red tape, and unleash opportunity for our Small Businesses to grow, innovate, and thrive,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113597023115140068\" target=\"_blank\">Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday<\/a>. \u201cShe will focus on ensuring that SBA is accountable to Taxpayers by cracking down on waste, fraud, and regulatory overreach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Republican lost her bid for a full term in a January 2021 runoff of a 2020 special election against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.). Loeffler was one of Trump\u2019s most vocal allies while in the Senate and vowed to supporters that she would challenge the 2020 Electoral College results until the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Trump picked Linda McMahon to lead the Small Business Administration during his first term; she stepped down in 2019 to help with his reelection campaign. McMahon, who kept a relatively low profile at SBA and was seen as a loyal foot soldier inside the White House, is Trump\u2019s pick to serve as secretary of Education in his second term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler to lead the Small Business Administration. Loeffler, 53, is the current co-chair of Trump\u2019s second inaugural committee. She is also the former CEO of Bakkt, a commodity and cryptocurrency trading platform that Trump\u2019s Truth Social media company has been in talks to purchase. And she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}