Updated Oct 1, 2025
With the current Government Shutdown, The Asian Chamber has created a resource page. We want to make any information related to the government shutdown available to our business community. Please see the curated information below:
US Chamber – How to Survive A Government Shutdown: A Small Business Guide
US Chamber – Ways a Government Shutdown Could Affect You and Your Business
YOUTUBE: ACC Learning 2023 – What Happens During a Government Shutdown (Recorded in 2023)
SBA Activities that will continue during a lapse in funding
- Disaster Preparedness & Response (making and servicing disaster direct loans and
disaster planning activities) - Office of Advocacy
- Funded Resources Partners (Small Business Development Centers, Women’s Business
Centers, SCORE and Veteran Business Outreach Centers continue to provide training
and counseling services to small businesses) - HUBZone (accepting and processing HUBZone applications and other Program
operations) - Certified Development Company (CDC) 504 Loan Program (closing previously approved
loans and certain limited loan servicing and liquidation activities) - Inspector General (disaster funded activities and limited excepted activities (e.g., court
appearances)) - Microloan Intermediaries (Intermediaries continue to make and service microloans)
- Preferred Surety Bond (PSB) Program (Preferred Sureties continue to issue SBA
guaranteed surety bonds under delegated authority). - Native American Outreach (continued services to Native American owned small
businesses) - National Women’s Business Council (continuation of NWBC meetings and studies)
- Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Debenture Program (limited
receivership/liquidation activities to continue) - Procurement Set-Aside (limited number of SBA procurement staff to provide small
business set-aside programs support to Federal agencies that remain open during
lapse) - Credit Risk Management (limited activities for imminent loss)
- Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)/ Small Business Technology
- Transfer Program (STTR) (Funded Participating Agencies may continue to make
- SBIR/STTR awards)
- COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) (staff will continue to process and
manage the COVID-19 EIDL program to support small businesses’ recovery from the
COVID-19 disaster’s economic impacts) - Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) (staff will continue to manage loan forgiveness
activities) - Shuttered Venues Operators Grant Program (SVOG) (limited number of SBA staff to
manage program and provide economic aid to small businesses, non-profits, and
venues affected by the COVID-19 pandemic until the program is fully sunsetted)
SBA Activities that will cease during a lapse in funding
- CDC 504 Loan Program (no new loan approvals or Program support)
- 7(a) Loan Program (no new loan approvals or Program support)
- Microloan Program (no new loans to Microloan Intermediaries or technical assistance)
- Entrepreneurial Development (no management and oversight of resource partners)
- Small Business Investment Company Program (SBIC) (no licensing, examination, or
approvals of draw requests, or other Program support) - Unfunded Resources Partners (7(j), State Trade Expansion Program (STEP), Regional
Innovation Clusters, Emerging Leaders, PRIME and Boots to Business)(these programs
operate on a reimbursable basis and payments would not be processed during a lapse;
possible limited activities at grantees’ discretion) - Secondary Market Loan Programs (no Program support)
- 8(a) Business Development (no application processing or Program support)
- All Small Mentor-Protégé (no application processing or Program support)
- Women Owned Small Business Contracting (no application processing or Program
support) - Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Contracting (no application processing
or Program support) - National Ombudsman (no processing of small business comments/complaints or
Regulatory Fairness Board hearings) - Surety Bond Program (no new surety bonds approvals/modifications other than PSB
Program) - Co-sponsorships (no cosponsored events; cancellation of scheduled cosponsored
events during lapse) - United States Export Assistance Centers (no small business export counseling)