House Republican accuses Biden admin of slow-rolling cooperation with voter registration probe

House Committee on Small Business Chairman Roger Williams on Friday accused Small Business Administration (SBA) leader Isabel Casillas-Guzman of slow-rolling the agency's cooperation with a House probe by failing to hand over subpoenaed documents concerning voter registration efforts. 

Williams previously claimed that the way the SBA used a 2021 Biden executive order to forge a "Memorandum of Understanding" with the Michigan Department of State was potentially unconstitutional and accused the SBA of using the order in a partisan way, by allegedly "diverting its resources away from assisting Main Street so it can register Democratic voters," according to Fox News.

The chairman stated on Friday that the department has failed to produce sufficient documents that the committee subpoenaed at the end of July, including travel calendars for the agency's staff.

"Since the first request was made by this Committee on March 20, 2024, the SBA has produced approximately 500 pages of documents, a substantial portion of which is just one email chain; further, nearly 20 percent of the documents produced by the SBA were entirely unresponsive to the Committee’s requests," Williams wrote in a letter to Guzman. 

"It remains unclear why the SBA has slow-rolled productions and wasted time producing documents that were either nonresponsive to Committee’s requests or duplicative," he added.

The accusations are particularly noteworthy given Michigan's status as a swing state as the country heads into a critical election season.

"Instead of cooperating with basic congressional oversight, the SBA has once again given us documents that are not responsive to our requests – despite their claims otherwise," Williams told the outlet.  "With the presidential election less than three months away, our investigation is more important than ever."

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.