Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the committee’s ranking member, told HuffPost that he still wasn’t satisfied with the response he’s received from the administration on the issue.
Planned Parenthood’s affiliates are nonprofit organizations with leadership and funding structures separate from the national group, but Republicans say they are too closely tied and should not have received the money. They were meant to help small businesses keep employees on their payrolls during the pandemic. The loans, however, were handed out during President Donald Trump’s administration.
They now say they will oppose filling the deputy SBA job until the Biden administration commits to taking back loans to some Planned Parenthood affiliates under the Paycheck Protection Program. Republican senators’ reasons for blocking Syed have shifted over time. He is also co-founder of AAPI Victory Fund, a super PAC dedicated to mobilizing Asian American voters. Syed is a Pakistani American businessman who has stepped into public service roles in both California and at the federal level, leading engagement with small businesses for President Barack Obama’s administration after the passage of the 2009 stimulus package. Republicans skipped votes on Syed twice in July, once in September and on Thursday.
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