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Report A contractor was Thrown out of a Navy competition for not getting a letter from its own parent company September 4, 2026
Report Two boats priced 120% over the estimate, and eleven extra beds did not cover it September 2, 2026
Report The HUBZone preference made the Winner look 2.6 million dollars more expensive and it still won September 2, 2026
Report One unsigned amendment ended a ten year bid August 31, 2026
Report One email added 1,427,564 dollars and lost the contract August 30, 2026
Report Substantial confidence lost to Satisfactory confidence by 1.98 million dollars August 29, 2026
Report Thirty four thousand dollars decided a twenty million dollar award August 25, 2026
Report NIH found three capable small firms. Two years later it found none. August 24, 2026
Report The Army banned teaming. Joint ventures were fine. August 22, 2026
Report Twelve strengths, zero weaknesses, and no benefits at all August 22, 2026
Report Two thousand eight hundred employees is small now August 20, 2026
Report 96% out East. 5% out West. August 18, 2026
Report Thirty-seven thousand loans nobody Finished reading August 17, 2026
Report The algorithm doesn't charge you. It just suspends you. August 16, 2026
Report 1,141 banks still make SBA loans. Half made five or fewer. August 15, 2026
Report 21 months for $43,980. Eight million years at that rate. August 13, 2026
Report Seven states and one territory were invited. The window closed last night. August 11, 2026
Report The SBA cut its staff in half and called it record capital August 10, 2026
Report Four disasters, one form letter, and the exact same deadline August 9, 2026
Report The SBA rebuilt its front door. Guess who it built it for. August 7, 2026
Report The SBA took six years to say what AI it was using August 6, 2026
Report The SBA doubled the cap on a program that has to pay for itself August 5, 2026
Report The SBA found a million dollars for five companies. Somebody else paid it. August 4, 2026
Report The SBA is handing out $15 million this week. A small business cannot apply for any of it. August 3, 2026
Report Three agents won the Oscars of government service. The trophy represents 0.6% of the fraud. August 1, 2026
Report Happy 73rd birthday to the agency that created 560,000 jobs and sent 562,000 loans to collections July 30, 2026
Report The pilot was supposed to end April 4. Instead the SBA made it permanent. July 29, 2026
Report The budget zeroes out score, the free mentors behind 59,447 new businesses July 28, 2026
Report The SBA's fraud watchdog promised the next 250 years, delivered $86.7 million July 25, 2026
Report The SBA's own fraud screen skipped half the eligibility checks and cleared $32 billion July 24, 2026
Report The SBA referred 562,000 borrowers to collections. It had investigated fewer than 1,000 of them. July 22, 2026
Report The SBA doubled a ceiling nobody was hitting July 21, 2026
Report The SBA found a predatory lending problem and Solved it by Locking the victims inside July 20, 2026
Report The SBA turned small business policy into a game show July 19, 2026
Report The SBA just banned green card holders from Owning a single share July 18, 2026
Report The SBA's 8(a) review has a 90-day legal deadline. It has been a year. July 17, 2026
Report The SBA just discovered a $50 billion program it ran for fifty years and never once audited July 12, 2026
Report The SBA suspension tour hits Wisconsin: 150,000 banned, and zero recovery on the marquee July 12, 2026
Report The SBA disaster loan Coast lottery: One side of America got the memo, the other got 5% July 11, 2026
Report The government built a $22 billion time machine to punish the past it created July 10, 2026
Report The SBA bought Palantir to hunt fraud. The dragnet swept up the innocent small-business borrowers too. July 9, 2026
Report The PPP loan warrant list fear machine: The SBA stays silent and lets the panic do its enforcement July 8, 2026
Report How California became the $8.6 billion COVID fraud epicenter: The rubber-stamp machine that verified nothing July 7, 2026
Report How California became the $8.6 billion COVID fraud epicenter: The rubber-stamp machine that verified nothing July 7, 2026
Report The SBA's 1996 small business watchdog just became a political Lawfare portal for farmers and ranchers July 6, 2026
Report The SBA suspended a quarter of its 8(a) contractors over a paperwork deadline, then moved to Terminate the ones who missed it July 6, 2026
Report The SBA doubled the loan limit to $10 million. The average borrower gets $377,192 and a collection letter. July 5, 2026
Report The word is suspected. The SBA is mass-suspending borrowers it never convicted and shipping them to Treasury for collection. July 4, 2026
Report The same machine that fire-Hosed money out the door now Claws it back from the people who kept the lights on July 3, 2026
Report The SBA handed out billions without looking, then bought Palantir to watch everyone who is left July 3, 2026
Report The pandemic fraud emergency was supposed to end. Instead the SBA built a permanent surveillance machine. July 2, 2026
Report The SBA approved $3.4 billion for LA wildfire survivors. Only $1 billion went out the door. July 1, 2026
Report The 8(a) Purge: 1,000 Legit contractors suspended over a paperwork deadline June 30, 2026
Report Is there a PPP loan warrant list? No. There is a public database, and America turned it into a bloodsport. June 29, 2026
Report The SBA's own watchdog said $200 billion was probably stolen. One dollar in six. June 28, 2026
Report The fraud-losing agency was handed the $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio, then cut 43% of its staff June 27, 2026
Report The SBA found hundreds of billions for fraud in 2020. Then it ran out of money for actual disaster victims. June 26, 2026
Report The SBA shoveled a billion out the door in 2020. Now it wants your credit score, your flood policy, and your life insurance. June 25, 2026
Report The SBA suspended 27,486 Ohio borrowers over $1.1 billion. The DOJ caught $1.4 million. June 24, 2026
Report The SBA hired Palantir for $300,000 and called it a Bootcamp: Industrial surveillance for a 2% recovery rate June 23, 2026

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