President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he has chosen former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., to lead the Small Business Administration in his second term. 'I am very pleased to nominate business leader and former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler, from the Great State of Georgia, to serve as Administrator of the Small Business Administration ,' Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social. Trump called Loeffler 'a tremendous fighter in the U.S.
Following the 2020 election, as Trump pushed his claims of widespread voter fraud, Loeffler repeatedly refused to acknowledge that he had lost the presidential election. NBC News reported last year that a special grand jury in Georgia that initially investigated Trump's efforts to overturn the election results recommended the indictments of more than three dozen people, including 21 who weren't charged in the Fulton County case.