WATCH: Kelly Loeffler testifies at Senate confirmation hearing for SBA administrator

Former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Small Business Administration, testified Wednesday before the Senate Committee of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Watch the hearing in the player above.

Loeffler is a former chief executive of cryptocurrency trading platform Bakt and a former co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream.

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Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., questioned Loeffler about Trump’s federal funding freeze, asking if she thought it was lawful that Trump’s administration had acted to freeze all federal grants and loans beginning Tuesday evening.

“I disagree with the premise of your question, because the money was, certainly with regard to the agencies, discretionary in many cases, but I fully agree with President Trump’s decision to stop wasteful spending,” Loeffler said.

Markey pressed her on whether she would obey unlawful orders from the president, and she responded that she wouldn’t answer hypothetical questions.

Support for Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons

Loeffler also told senators that she “strongly” supports Trump’s blanket pardon of more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“It’s time to get past political persecution in this country. That’s what Americans voted for,” she said.

WATCH: ‘I strongly support’ Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons, Loeffler says during confirmation hearing

Loeffler was answering questions from Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, who pointed out that the former senator had co-sponsored a resolution recognizing Brian Sicknick, a U.S. Capitol police officer who died after being attacked on Jan. 6.

As a senator, she also supported unsubstantiated claims about the 2020 election results, including a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results. She changed her mind about opposing the election results in Congress after the Jan. 6 attack and voted to certify Joe Biden’s win.