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The many who give thanks today to Social Security.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. Happy Thanksgiving. First, the deal

to reopen the federal government earlier this month reversed mass firings of thousands of federal

workers that included staff at the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, CDFI.

Marketplace's Savannah Peters, has that. The CDFI fund awards grants to banks,

credit unions, and loan funds that work in underserved parts of the country. And the CDFI brand helps

those lenders raise private capital. A relatively small investment of the public sector leverages

significant funds from the private sector.

Michael Swack directs the University of New Hampshire's Center for Impact Finance.

He says the Trump administration's move to effectively eliminate the CDFI fund was met with rare bipartisan pushback in Congress.

CDFI fund has supported small business and affordable housing lending in districts blue and red,

and a number of red states have benefited.

The CDFI fund's staff has been reinstated, at least through Congress's January 30th deadline

to pass a budget.

But lenders fear the fund may be on shaky ground.

Some are strategizing to lean less on federal support.

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