Returned PPP funds should be prioritized for actual small businesses with fewer than 100 employees.

Returned funds should be prioritized for actual small businesses with fewer than 100 employees.

Tenney says recovered PPP money should go first to small firms under 100 employees.

Tenney Demands Large Corporations Return Small Business Money Now - Claudia for Congress
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Tenney’s plan said: “Returned funds should be prioritized for actual small businesses with fewer than 100 employees.”

Campaign material shows Tenney explicitly promised to prioritize returned PPP funds for small businesses under 100 employees.

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Tenney Demands Large Corporations Return Small Business Money Now - Claudia for Congress
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The PPP page says the program “prioritizes millions of Americans employed by small businesses” and that eligible borrowers are small businesses and eligible nonprofit, veterans, tribal, self-employed, and independent contractor applicants who meet program size standards.

Treasury describes PPP eligibility by SBA size standards, not a 100-employee cutoff, which cuts against the specific promise.

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Paycheck Protection Program | U.S. Department of the Treasury
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SBA’s interim final rule implements the PPP under the CARES Act; the program was created as part of SBA’s 7(a) loan program and applied to eligible small businesses under SBA’s rules, which generally used the agency’s small-business size standards rather than a 100-employee threshold.

The governing SBA rule does not adopt the campaign’s claimed 100-employee priority standard, so the promise was not fulfilled in the program rules.

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Business Loan Program Temporary Changes; Paycheck Protection Program | U.S. Small Business Administration
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Tenney said all applicants for PPP loans must abide by affiliation rules and size standards, and she pressed SBA over loans she said were given to ineligible applicants.

This shows Tenney continued to focus on PPP eligibility and misuse, but it does not show adoption of her narrower 100-employee priority proposal.

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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney Presses SBA Administrator Over PPP Loans Provided Illegally to Planned Parenthood
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