The Small Company Committee and the Senate Entrepreneurial Committee voted on Wednesday with a margin of 12 to 7 to improve the appointment of the President Donald Trump Choose an administrator administrator for small businesses (SBA) to the Senate floor.
Kelly Loeffler, a distinguished business executive director and philanthropist who was a senator from Georgia for two years, appeared before the Committee on January 28th and committed to donating her annual salary of $ 207,500 for charity.
Loeffler and her husband Jeff together created a Fortune 500 financial and technology company.
“Like President Trump, Senator Loeffler has left a successful career in the private sector to improve the US foreign plan,” said Loeffler spokeswoman Caitlin O’De for Fox News 28. “If it is confirmed, it will continue to donate federal salary to charity and non -profit organizations throughout the country – and has completely focused on the work that the administration of a small business becomes an entrance to the US dream for entrepreneurs throughout the country. ”
Trump’s Cabinet Cabinet Loeffler has committed to donating a salary if confirmed
Kelly Loeffler is a reputable business executive director and philanthropist who has been a senator from Georgia for two years. (Dustin Chambers/Reuters)
Loeffler, whose net value is estimated at approximately $ 1 billion, has previously donated its annual salary of Senate in the amount of $ 174,000 between 2019 and 2021 more than 40 charity organizations and non -profit organizations of Georgia.
These organizations included food banks, religious groups and organizations that opposed abortion, foster care groups/adoption, as well as organizations promoting health care, agriculture, education, law enforcement and disaster mitigation.
Loeffler also paved Senator Ed Markey, D-Mass, during a hearing for a certificate of announcement of Trump’s administration that it would froze federal funds and support.
On January 27, the office and budget office published a letter ordering a break on all federal scholarships and loans aimed at eradicating “Wockeness” and “Government weapon” to improve the effectiveness of the Government.
Leavitt returns to the media “uncertainty” of freezing federal financing
Nominated for the administration of small businesses Kelly Loeffler, whose net value is estimated at approximately $ 1 billion, has previously donated its annual salary of Senate in the amount of $ 174,000 between 2019 and 2021 on more than 40 charities and non -profit Georgia organizations. (Rod Lamkey, Jr./associated Press)
The White House withdrew the letter on January 29, but the secretary of the Karolina Leavitt White House printing said that the move did not equalize the “recipient of federal freezing of financial resources.”
Markey asked Loeffler whether she believed that the move was legal or not, in the midst of the concern of Congress members that Trump’s administration tried to bypass Congress and withhold funds.
“I completely agree with the decision of President Trump to stop a wasteful consumption,” Loeffler told Markey. “This resulted in the victory of the landslide that many Americans were waiting for relief from excessive state consumption.”
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
