Small Business Association

Small Business Administration

What is going on at the Small Business Administration? Seriously. I’d like to know. DOGE showed up there remarkably early in their operations (2025-02-03). And since then, it has largely been radio silence. I know some things must have happened there - the CIO was abruptly forced out at the end of March just before DOGE announced a change to loan processing - but there just hasn’t been much reported yet. Hopefully that will change in the future.

Positions

Position	Date	Person	Notes
GSA? SBA 2/03	2/03	Edward Coristine	likely detailed «Only source is a single tweet. More info needed. Assuming detail from GSA.» X.com
GSA? SBA 2/03	2/03	Donald Park	likely detailed «assuming detail from GSA»

Position

Person

Notes

GSA? SBA

2/03

Edward Coristine

likely detailed «Only source is a single tweet. More info needed. Assuming detail from GSA.» X.com

GSA? SBA

2/03

Donald Park

likely detailed «assuming detail from GSA»

Events

Agency	Date	Event
SBA	2/03 SBA	Sighting: Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems. X.com
March 2025
SBA	3/28 SBA	Disruption: The SBA CIO, Marcus Alzona, who had been in the position for about a month, is abruptly removed FedScoop
SBA	3/30 SBA	Disruption: DOGE announces on X that it has made some changes to the loan application process at SBA to require a date of birth and to pause applications for certain age ranges Inc.
May 2025
SBA	5/22 SBA	Official: Appearing before Congress, the SBA Administrator Kelly Loefler claimed that DOGE had cancelled contracts worth more than $3 billion dollars in savings. DOGE's "wall of receipts" only lists $22 million in savings. FedScoop

Date

Event

2/03

SBA

Sighting:

Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems.

X.com

March 2025

3/28

SBA

Disruption:

The SBA CIO, Marcus Alzona, who had been in the position for about a month, is abruptly removed

FedScoop

3/30

SBA

Disruption:

DOGE announces on X that it has made some changes to the loan application process at SBA to require a date of birth and to pause applications for certain age ranges

Inc.

May 2025

5/22

SBA

Official:

Appearing before Congress, the SBA Administrator Kelly Loefler claimed that DOGE had cancelled contracts worth more than $3 billion dollars in savings. DOGE's "wall of receipts" only lists $22 million in savings.

FedScoop

Questions

What has DOGE been doing at the SBA?
DOGE embedded early within the Small Business Administration, sending Donald Park and Edward Coristine there within the first few weeks. Despite that, there has been no reporting on their activities apart from a single tweet. What have they been up to there?