Dilawar Syed Was Helping Small Businesses Long Before Being Nominated to the SBA
He will continue to do so with or without a desk at the Small Business Administration. Can Republicans blocking his confirmation say the same?
Senate Republicans have already thrown everything but the kitchen sink at President Joe Biden’s pick for deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration.
They haven’t done so due to any shortcomings on the part of the candidate. Successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dilawar Syed has long been a champion of small businesses.
For the past 20 years, and especially over the past year, Mr. Syed has been an indispensable member of the California business community. In various capacities- working with the California Governor’s office, and the Obama Administration before that, and volunteering on his own initiative- Syed has already been doing exactly what Joe Biden wants him to do at the SBA:
Help connect struggling small business owners- in particular those in underserved communities- with the Small Business Administration COVID-19 assistance they need.
Except Dilawar Syed hasn’t been able to do this important work at the Small Business Administration. In all the long months since his nomination way back in March, he has instead languished in the confirmation…