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Kelly Loeffler

Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration. On 3 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Kelly Loeffler serves as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, having previously served as a U.S. Senator representing Georgia. Prior to entering federal politics, she was the chief executive officer of digital asset platform Bakkt and co-owner of the WNBA team Atlanta Dream.

3shows
4appearances
45statements
31resolved
17supported
4contradicted
55%fully supported
25said about them ↓

Everything Kelly Loeffler said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Loeffler: SBA Cut Headcount by 53% and Canceled $3B in Contracts
“I've cut my own agency's headcount by 53%. That's about three hundred million a year just in salary and expense. We've cut three billion dollars of contract, needless contracts out of their”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 17:39 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Loeffler: Biden Administration Tried to Forgive $200B in Pandemic Loans
“The Biden administration tried to forgive those loans, sweep it under the rug to the tune of about two hundred billion dollars.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 16:59 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
Loeffler: SBA revoked USAID authority over a $700M migration study contract
“Well, yeah, and the SBA earlier last year had to remove USAID's contracting authority because they were blowing out these programs. Eight programs for seven hundred million dollars for one contract to detect the root causes of migration into the United States.…”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 27:38 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Loeffler: Biden administration banned SBA loans for purchasing AI technology
“In fact, with regard to AI, the Biden administration banned the use of SBA based loans for use of purchasing technology and AI.”
Kelly Loeffler Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:18:04 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Loeffler: SBA has eliminated DEI criteria from loan underwriting guidelines
“We've stripped out the DEI that the last administration had put in.”
Kelly Loeffler Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:25:40 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Loeffler: SBA Uncovered $9B in COVID Fraud in California, $430M in Minnesota
“Turns out, four hundred and thirty million dollars of fraud in Minnesota. Then we go to California, nine billion dollars of COVID era fraud.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 17:17 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
Loeffler: IG Report Found Overseas IP Addresses Obtained PPP Loans
“So we had an Inspector General report that said there were hundreds of people from overseas IP addresses that were getting PPP loans.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 18:21 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Loeffler: SBA Removed 150 D.C.-Based Businesses from 8(a) Program
“We just removed a 150 Washington D.C. Based So-called small disadvantaged businesses from the program, because they were neither small nor disadvantaged, but they were Washington cronies.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 21:24 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
Loeffler: Biden administration policies led to 80% no-bid government contracts
“I mean, they moved it up from a five percent statutory target to 15% of all government contracting. That's why the program almost doubled under Biden, and it went to about 80% no-bid contracts.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 22:04 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Loeffler: SBA Launches First 8(a) Audit in 45 Years, Expels 1,000 Firms
“That's why we're doing the first audit of this program in 45 years. It's never been looked at. We've already kicked a thousand people out of the program.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 22:30 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Loeffler: AI will create millions of software and manufacturing solopreneurs
“We're gonna create millions of solopreneurs who are gonna have massive software companies or manufacturing companies thanks to AI.”
Kelly Loeffler Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:17:25 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Loeffler: Previous SBA underwriting policies caused $400M increase in loan losses
“As a result, the loan loss portfolio, the, on the portfolio went way up, four hundred million dollars.”
Kelly Loeffler Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:26:06 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
BIGDEAL Assertion Supported
Loeffler: Trump administration is cutting 10 regulations per new one
“President Trump is Leading the charge on that again. He did it in 2016, eliminating multiple regulations for each new one. We're doing it again, at least eliminating 10 for every new regulation”
Kelly Loeffler May 14, 2025 ▶ 31:22 Billionaire Business Expert: How Small Businesses Can Get Money - SBA Head, Kelly Loeffler
Loeffler: Washington establishment is hostile to people in finance
“And I found when I got to Washington that the political establishments particularly on the left, are pretty hostile to people who have an interest in finance and understanding how to run a P and L, a balance sheet, and, To really follow through on what spendin…”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 7:24 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
Loeffler: Current Cabinet Averages 13-15 Years Business Experience vs Biden's 2
“I think we have an average of 13 to 15 years business experience where the Biden administration had an average of Two years of private sector experience.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 8:52 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Loeffler: SF Fed Found Government Spending Drove 43% of Inflation
“The San Francisco Fed came out with a survey that said about 43% of inflation can be explained through massive government spending.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 17:30 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN What-if
Loeffler: The US would not win back manufacturing without AI
“Without AI, we would not be winning back these industries”
Kelly Loeffler Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:14:48 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
ALL-IN Disclosure
Loeffler rewrote SBA rules allowing small businesses to finance AI implementation
“I had the rules rewritten. So now small business entrepreneurs, solopreneurs up to 515 hundred person factories can use the proceeds of their loan toward AI implementation, advanced manufacturing.”
Kelly Loeffler Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:18:15 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Loeffler: David Sacks serves as AI and crypto ambassador in Trump administration
“Having David Sachs in this administration to be an ambassador for AI and crypto has been huge because it gives us a way to work across the administration.”
Kelly Loeffler Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:28:47 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
BIGDEAL Assertion Supported
Loeffler: Biden Administration Passed Record $1.7 Trillion in Regulations
“And in fact, the Biden administration passed 1.7 trillion dollars in regulation, setting an all-time record by many multiples of massive regulation.”
Kelly Loeffler May 14, 2025 ▶ 22:45 Billionaire Business Expert: How Small Businesses Can Get Money - SBA Head, Kelly Loeffler
Loeffler: Committed to never owning cryptocurrency as a 'no-coiner'
“I'm a no-coiner. I always committed to never owning the asset.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 6:19 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Loeffler: SBA delivered a record $100B in capital last year
“Yeah, so last year we put out a record in aggregate. We had a hundred billion dollar impact in getting capital to Main Street. Forty-five billion of that was through our lending programs, through our community lenders. About fifty-three billion went through ou…”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 15:33 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
Loeffler: SBA aims to share its fraud detection model across government
“The goal is to create a replicable model that we can apply to other parts of not just our agency, but to share that broadly across the administration.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 24:46 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
Loeffler: SBA will automate contracting programs to curb local influence
“And we're going to make this a much more rules-based program, automated, so that you can't influence your local business development Contract.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 26:15 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale

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The other half of the tape: Kelly Loeffler's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 23 times in 7 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most David Sacks 10Donald J. Trump 6Chamath Palihapitiya 3Joe Lonsdale 2Scott Bessent 1David Friedberg 1

Statements about Kelly Loeffler, by other people (2)

ALL-IN Opinion
Chamath says Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are stupid candidates
“Kelly Loftner's a moron. She's an idiot. David Perdue's a good old boy. He's an idiot. They're just stupid. This actually speaks to a bigger problem, which is the Republicans could do so much better if they could actually find younger, more vibrant, intelligen…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 8, 2021 ▶ 52:30 E16: Reflecting on the riots at the US Capitol, plus: Georgia runoffs, vaccine distribution & more
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Chamath Palihapitiya reports Georgia Senate race between Warnock and Loeffler is in a runoff
“Ralph Warnock and Kelly Loeffler in a runoff for the Senate seat in Georgia.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 2:47:39 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!

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AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration 1 19 50% 7/14 full record on American Optimist →
BIGDEALLEDGER Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration 2 14 78% 7/9 full record on BigDeal →
ALL-INLEDGER Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration 1 12 38% 3/8 full record on All-In →
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