Disaster relief funding would be made public under bipartisan SBA bill

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EXCLUSIVE — A bipartisan and bicameral congressional trio is pushing the Small Business Administration to publicly report disaster relief loan funds in new legislation dropped Tuesday.

The SBA Disaster Transparency Act, introduced by Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and Salud Carbajal (D-CA) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), comes as Republicans battle over whether to include disaster aid for several states in a spending deal ahead of a government shutdown deadline next month.

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