Vice President JD Vance to a Michigan small business owner: "We at the @SBAgov, I'm sure an agency that is very close…

Vice President JD Vance on X the Vice President’s official account2026-10-18

Vice President JD Vance to a Michigan small business owner: "We at the @SBAgov, I'm sure an agency that is very close to your heart, we've uncovered tens of billions of dollars of fraud so that we can make better small business loans to businesses like yours. We want the money to go to you and not the fraudsters."

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One of the things I'm proudest of is that we at the Small Business Administration I'm sure an agency that that is very close to your heart we've uncovered tens of billions of dollars of fraud so that we can make better small business loans to businesses like yours We want the money to go to you and not to the fraudster So there are things that we're doing and we've just got to keep working at it

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Vice President JD Vance to a Michigan small business owner: "We at the @SBAgov, I'm sure an agency that is very close to your heart, we've uncovered tens of billions of dollars of fraud so that we can make better small business loans to businesses like yours. We want the money to go to you and not the fraudsters."

One of the things I'm proudest of is that we at the Small Business Administration I'm sure an agency that that is very close to your heart we've uncovered tens of billions of dollars of fraud so that we can make better small business loans to businesses like yours We want the money to go to you and not to the fraudster So there are things that we're doing and we've just got to keep working at it

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