{"id":35528,"date":"2025-07-03T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35528\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:38:08","slug":"small-businesses-in-downtown-la-impacted-by-ice-related-protests-may-apply-for-sba-loan-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35528\/","title":{"rendered":"Small businesses in downtown LA impacted by ICE-related protests may apply for SBA loan \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved California state officials\u2019 request for federal disaster relief for businesses in downtown Los Angeles impacted<\/a> by a series of recent protests<\/a> stemming from federal immigration enforcement actions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Small businesses may now apply for up to $2 million in low-interest Economic Injury Disaster Loans to pay for \u201cworking capital and normal operating expenses,\u201d including payroll, rent and utilities, SBA announced on Wednesday, July 2.<\/p>\n

A number of downtown establishments lost business when they were forced to close early during a week of city-imposed overnight curfews<\/a> or because people stayed away from the area. Other businesses were victims of looting or vandalism.<\/p>\n

In announcing the loan program, the SBA accused Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a> of fostering an environment where \u201cviolent rioters\u201d were allowed to harm \u201cbrave ICE agents and destroy small businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the SBA has approved California\u2019s disaster relief request and will begin delivering immediate aid to the innocent victims, Governor Newsom must take accountability for his state-sanctioned crisis \u2014 and stop playing politics with Americans\u2019 livelihoods,\u201d SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said in a statement.<\/p>\n

But Diana Crofts-Pelayo, a spokesperson for the governor\u2019s office, pointed the finger back at President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Critics say the Republican president\u2019s policies on immigration and mass deportations have sown fear in communities<\/a>, and that Trump\u2019s decision to deploy members of the National Guard and U.S. Marines<\/a> to Los Angeles to protect federal buildings and agents carrying out immigration enforcement actions further escalated tensions.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, the federal government is doing the right thing to pay for the damages several small businesses have suffered from the Trump-imposed chaos campaign in Los Angeles. California businesses shouldn\u2019t have to shoulder the burden of Trump\u2019s authoritarian tirade,\u201d Crofts-Pelayo said in an email.<\/p>\n

According to the SBA, the protests in downtown L.A. resulted in about $1 billion in damages.<\/p>\n

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Loeffler on Wednesday also criticized Newsom for not requesting federal relief for small businesses sooner. Instead, she said, the Democratic governor was \u201cinsisting that the riots were peaceful even as small business owners stood in the rubble.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Governor\u2019s Office of Emergency Services on Wednesday provided to Southern California News Group a copy of a letter it sent to SBA Acting Director Eric Shaw on June 25 requesting the disaster loan declaration.<\/p>\n

Businesses interested in applying for an EIDL loan may visit sba.gov\/disaster<\/a>\u00a0for information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved California state officials\u2019 request for federal disaster relief for businesses in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,69,2499,1854,409,2961,224,6080,5337,17259,50,80,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-35528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-downtown-los-angeles","12":"tag-gavin-newsom","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-county","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-national-politics","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114789817154819432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}