LGBT Erasure From Small Business Administration Site Questioned
Reps. Nydia M. Velázquez and Yvette D. Clarke, both Democrats, sent a letter Wednesday to (Trump's) SBA administrator Linda McMahon noting that the sections dedicated to LGBT content have been missing since at least January 25, 2017,
five days after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president.
This is deeply troubling and renews our concern that this pages removal may have been politically or ideologically motivated, rather than simply administrative, the representatives wrote. They remarked that LGBT businesses are a critical segment of the nations small business community and a powerful force for the economy and pointed out that in 2016, an LGBT business was named the SBAs small business of the year.
SBA officials said it was typical to revise websites when there in a change in the presidential administration, but now much of the site has been updated and the LGBT page has not been restored.
Much LGBT content has been removed from federal government websites since Trump took office. This includes pages from the White House site, the State Departments site, and the Department of Health and Human Services site.
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https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/5/10/democratic-reps-want-answers-lgbt-erasure-small-business-administration-site