President Trump’s DEI Executive Order and its Impact for SBA 

January 22, 2025

Bob Coleman
Founder & Publisher

President Trump’s DEI Executive Order and its Impact for SBA 

SBA will place all employees of its DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility) office on paid administrative leave by close of business today, January 22, 2025.

Staff will continue to receive full salary and benefits. However, they are “not required or expected” to perform any work-related tasks, are not expected to come into the office, and will lose access to their sba.gov email addresses.

SBA must take down its DEIA websites and social media accounts.

It is important to note what the order does not say.

Despite reports to the contrary, the Executive Order does not change SBA’s mission of getting capital to Main Street and, more importantly, its mission of getting capital to underserved markets.

For those interested, here is a copy of SBA’s 2022 DEIA strategic plan.

Here is also a PDF of their website from this morning.

I will be providing an in-depth analysis of this order for SBA lenders and how it impacts them in my premium Coleman Report weekly newsletter next week.