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The House Small Business Committee is investigating the Small Business Administration (SBA) for its potential misuse of taxpayer dollars in a voter registration partnership with the Michigan Department of State. The committee alleges that the SBA has been involved in partisan voter registration outreach in Michigan, a key swing state, and has misled Congress about the existence of a strategic plan outlining its voter registration work. The committee plans to confront the SBA administrator with a scathing document-request letter after repeated failures to comply with a subpoena.

The Oversight Project and the Heritage Foundation have sued the Small Business Administration (SBA) for allegedly failing to comply with a public records request related to a voter registration agreement between the agency and the Michigan Department of State. The lawsuit comes after Congress subpoenaed SBA officials over efforts to funnel resources to help register swing-state voters. The Biden administration’s executive order on Promoting Access to Voting was the cornerstone of the coordination, raising concerns that the agency was being used to register voters in a partisan manner in a key swing state.