SBA to cut staff by 43% despite plan to absorb Education Department responsibilities

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The Small Business Administration plans to cut thousands of employees as part of a “strategic restructuring” amid the Trump administration’s effort to slash the federal bureaucracy. 

The SBA will cut 43% of its workforce, or approximately 2,700 positions, in a move agency chief Kelly Loeffler said would “save taxpayers more than $435 million annually by FY26.” 

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