Linda McMahon No Longer Leads Small Business Administration, Now Education Secretary

Linda McMahon is not currently the Administrator of the Small Business Administration. She served as SBA Administrator from 2017 to 2019 during President Donald Trump’s first term, then later moved to chair the America First Action super PAC. In recent days, coverage has focused on her new role as Secretary of Education in the Trump administration, not on SBA leadership. According to C SPAN’s broadcast on August eleventh twenty twenty five, she appeared at a conservative student conference and was repeatedly introduced and thanked as Secretary of Education while discussing entrepreneurship and risk taking from her SBA tenure. C SPAN records the event title as Education Secretary Linda McMahon Speaks at Conservative Student Conference and includes remarks highlighting her first term leading the SBA and advice to young founders. Governor Scott Walker closed by thanking President Trump for nominating her to be the thirteenth Secretary of Education, underscoring her shift from small business policy to education policymaking. Recent federal notices tied to the SBA do not attribute actions to McMahon. The Federal Register on August twelfth outlines an SBA proposal for a new information collection to implement compliance and reporting rules for the Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative, a joint effort with the Department of Defense Office of Strategic Capital under a June fourth memorandum of agreement. The notices invite public comment by October fourteenth and list SBA officials Paul Van Eyl and Shauniece Carter for information, indicating routine agency rulemaking unrelated to McMahon’s current cabinet position. Legal analyses this week also note SBA’s inclusion in the implementation landscape for President Trump’s August seventh executive order on so called politicized debanking. Mayer Brown explains the order directs federal banking regulators to end politicized or unlawful debanking and emphasizes objective, risk based decisions, while JD Supra highlights that the Small Business Administration may be pulled into reviews that pressure lenders to revisit denials. These developments concern financial regulation and lender oversight rather than decisions by McMahon as SBA Administrator. Separately, The Independent reported that McMahon’s appearance at the conservative student event was briefly disrupted by prank audio, again in the context of her Education portfolio, not the SBA. For listeners tracking SBA leadership decisions, the headlines in the last few days point to agency notices on critical technologies fund oversight and the banking executive order’s downstream effects, while news mentioning Linda McMahon places her in Education, not at the SBA. Thank you for tuning in, and remember to subscribe. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.