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Save Sba From Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025

Floor Speech

Date: June 5, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. CISNEROS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for her leadership on this issue and in the committee.

Mr. Speaker, this legislation does not actually address the safety of the SBA. Workers are small businesses. Since my colleagues on the other side of the aisle disagree with the city's policy, the majority chooses to punish all small businesses in that area.

Let's be clear: This bill strips resources not from cities but for millions of small businesses, and it makes it harder for Americans to access assistance to start and grow their businesses.

Supporting small businesses should not be a partisan issue. We in the Committee on Small Business have heard in our hearings that targeting SBA resources in major cities will be critically detrimental.

For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to the committee.

If the House rules permitted, I would have offered this motion with an important amendment to this bill. My amendment would prevent the legislation from taking effect until Congress receives reporting from the SBA on the proposed relocation of covered offices, including a justification for how these moves could possibly serve small businesses.

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Mr. CISNEROS. Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for this motion to recommit.

I also submitted a separate amendment for consideration that would have prevented the implementation of this bill if the cost of relocating these offices out of Main Street would be more than zero dollars. Unfortunately, the Republican majority has blocked my amendment from receiving a floor vote today.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to oppose this bill and to vote in favor of my motion to recommit.

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Mr. CISNEROS. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.

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Mr. CISNEROS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

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