It's the latest step in a series of moves by the SBA to increase lending to small businesses. The Small Business Administration is expanding its lending efforts to boost energy-efficiency and ...

The SBA delivered over $44 billion in loans nationwide in FY2025, with $1.2 billion in the Seattle District. Rural lending rose 20%, and manufacturers gained new access to capital under the Made in ...

SBA chief Kelly Loeffler says bigger loans will help bring manufacturing back to the U.S. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Manufacturing companies could soon qualify for bigger Small Business ...

The Small Business Administration raised fees on its flagship 7(a) loan program in an effort to course correct after the program lost money for the first time in more than a decade. The move will no ...

President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget provides $35 billion of funding authority for the SBA's flagship 7(a) program. It would be the fourth consecutive year 7(a) funding authority was set at $35 ...

The president of a systems integration company and manufacturer of industrial electron beam systems is on Capitol Hill today to testify about financial needs for U.S. manufacturers. Karl Swanson, ...