When the White House Small Business Administration removed LGBT outreach pages from its website more than a year ago, journalists and legislators were told it was a pro forma practice, and that the pages would be restored.

Now, two Democratic lawmakers are asking SBA Administrator Linda McMahon why the pages were taken down to begin with — and why they still haven't been put back up.

New York Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Yvette Clarke, who serve on the House Committee on Small Business, wrote in a letter to McMahon this week that "other pages that were also under construction are already up and running."

The legislators called the absence "deeply troubling" and expressed concern "that this page's removal may have been politically or ideologically motivated, rather than simply administrative."

