Small Businesses Need the SBA: The SBA Needs Dilawar Syed
Senate Republicans blocking Mr. Syed’s confirmation to the Small Business Admin are hurting small businesses…and Republican midterm prospects.
Dilawar Syed was helping small business owners long before he was nominated to the Small Business Administration by President Joe Biden in March of 2021.
Mr. Syed was there post-2008, when an economic downturn threatened many U.S. small businesses and start-ups. Working with the Obama Administration, Syed dedicated much of his time in those days to making sure as many small businesses survived the crunch as possible.
He continued connecting small business owners- especially those in historically underserved and marginalized communities- with state and federal assistance programs through the California Governor’s office in the years that followed.
Over the last year, Dilawar Syed did even more of the same- giving generously of his time in an effort to help keep U.S. businesses afloat during a global pandemic.
His qualifications, his own personal success as an entrepreneur, and his long experience advocating for small business owners are the reasons President Biden nominated Dilawar Syed to be the deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration in the first place.