Senators Demand to Know Who Killed Minority Business Development Agency, Why & Where’s the Money Going?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell, Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), demanded that Keith Sonderling, the purported Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), promptly turn over key documents and information related to the dismantling of the agency and recent funding termination notices sent to all grantees by a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE. The Senators’ demands come as Paul Dabbar, Trump’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of Commerce, appears this morning before the Commerce Committee for his nomination hearing.
