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Chairman Williams on President Trump's Address to Congress and Working with Administrator Loeffler, Mar. 20, 2025

March 20, 2025 · House Committee on Small Business · 0:03:41

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What happened

Chairman Roger Williams said of the President’s address to Congress, as he stated it, that President Trump gave a positive, upbeat vision — pro-small business, pro-Main Street — covering tax cuts, regulations, and a strong military, and that it was the best such address he has heard. He criticized Democrats in the chamber, as he stated it, for sitting like wax figures and not standing for the people the President honored, and discussed the removal of Representative Al Green, whose stated objection, as quoted in the segment, was to alleged plans to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security — plans Williams said, as he stated it, the President has never talked about, as he characterized it.

Asked about meeting that week with new Small Business Administration chief Kelly Loeffler, Williams said, as he stated it, that the meeting was fantastic, that he and the administrator have known each other for a while, that she is a businesswoman who still owns businesses, as he stated it, and that she is, as he put it, a breath of fresh air the committee can talk to and work with — contrasting her, as he stated it, with the prior administrator, who he said would not even say that cutting taxes helps Main Street and small business, as he characterized it. Administrator Loeffler does not speak in the clip; she is a central subject of its second half, as the new SBA head the chairman describes working with.

Why it matters

The interview matters for who is in the room: the Small Business chairman’s first account of working with Administrator Loeffler is an early signal of how the SBA’s new leadership would be received by the committee that oversees it.

Sources: House Committee on Small Business, “Chairman Williams on President Trump’s Address of Congress and Working With Administrator Loeffler”, 2025-03-20 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-03-20). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.