President Joe Biden on Tuesday ignored a shouted question about the crisis at the southern border as he visited a small business in Washington. Biden visited W.S. Jenks & Son, a hardware store that received a Paycheck Protection Program loan during a window that was open in February thanks to the president. Biden entered the main floor of the store and visited with owner Mike Siegel, who offered that the hardest aspect of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic was figuring out what to do with staff members. Taking several loans from the federal program has enabled them to send vulnerable people home, he added. “Obviously, that was not cost effective, but we felt like we had to do that for our employees,” he said. Biden said the window, which was only open for businesses with 20 or fewer employees, was granted because many loans previously went to large companies. “A lot …