Given that President Trump released again, the Whiplash of Global Tariffs, Congress Democrats worked on the lighting of small enterprises owners who claim that tariffs and economic hard work threaten their livelihoods.
In social media videos, local intelligence stories, intelligence conferences and hearing of Capitol Hill, the Democrats focused on the situation of local entrepreneurs describing that they are forced to raise prices, release workers, freezing and slow sales to save shares because they absorb the impact of Mr. Trump’s business movements.
It is one of the ways that the Democrats are trying to use a tariff problem in their wider strategy to portray Mr. Trump and Republicans as eating the rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary Americans. The focus is when the Democrats seek to rework as a party of working people and accusations of Republicans, historically known as a business party, about the suppression of American business.
“President Trump’s trade war is an economic arson on the main street, and these people are burned,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and minority leaders, this week at a press conference with several small business owners.
“The shout we hear from our small businesses reflects what we have heard in the first days of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Nydia M. Velázquez, Supreme Democrat in the Small Business Committee, in Shadow Democrats House are held on Thursday. “Except this time, the government causes pain and does not work to alleviate it.”
Democratic leaders encouraged their members of the A-File to focus on small businesses. Many of them did so last month when they disintegrated throughout the country during a two -week niche.
Senator Jacky Rosen of Nevada traveled and COMPANY BACK COMPANY In Reno, whose owner said that while he was grateful, Trump’s administration suspended his double -digit “reciprocal” tariffs to countries like Vietnam, its source for the substance, continuing uncertainty would prevent his society from hiring more local employees as their business grows.
Both Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesot and a representative of Pete Aguilar California talked to Craft brewery In their countries, how 25 % of aluminum fees could force prices.
And the representative of Nancy Pelosi of California gathered the owners of the small businesses San Francisco Production Production Warehouse The railing against “fear and uncertainty” that their employees and their customers were instilled in the President’s tariffs.
Republicans claim that small businesses are doing well under Mr. Trump. Kelly Defefler, Head of the Small Business Administration Administration, said US manufacturers at the head of an “industrial return” indicate a 74 % increase Approval for loans Help to expand small manufacturers. She also said that Small businesses they talk to They are “grateful” to Mr. Trump “for having the strength and spine to stand up to the opponents and the ally.”
In a recent interview, he asked if he would consider the exemption tariff for small businesses, Mr. Trump mocked.
“They won’t need it. They’ll make so much money,” Trump said in an interview with Kristen Welker at “Meet the Press” last Sunday “Meet the Press”.
He previously criticized Mrs. Welker for his focus on small businesses.
“What about the car store?” he asked. “They will make a fortune for tariffs.”
For Amy Leinbach, the owner of the company in Texas, who spoke at the press conference of Mr. Schumer, the news of tariffs source what would be a breakthrough year “Great Bee, Little Bee.” Mrs. Leinbach suggests and sells a number of ecological silicone containers for food and children’s products.
Although she is not considered a politically active person, Mrs. Leinbach said she was forced to speak against tariffs soon after she was announced, and later associated with Main Street, a progressive lawyer for small businesses that helped to amplify her story.
“Now I don’t even go to my numbers. We had sales targets, but it is literally out of the window,” Mrs. Leinbach said. “Our goal is purely survival on the market until something changes.”
These stories seemed to moved the needle to the congress led by the Republican, where the house actively ceded its power to end the tariffs of Mr. Trump and the efforts of the Senate to do so or stop.
Senator John Curtis, a Republican of Utah, acknowledged that tariffs were “disproportionately hard for small businesses” and said he had handed over many stories of the owners to the White House. However, he said that he would not support the legislation introduced last week by Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, which would free small companies from tariffs.
The US Chamber of Commerce, which traditionally Supports Republican candidates and is in line with conservative policies, has stressed the concerns of small -time owners and even called for administration Exceptions from a grant of tariffs For local businesses and those who cannot be carried out by resources on the domestic market, such as coffee roasters.
However, the National Federation of Independent Entrepreneurship, one of the primary lobbying groups for the interests of small enterprises, did not give up the determination of tariffs, due to the lack of consensus between its members. It is “complex” to draw a wide range of conclusions about how small businesses react to tariffs, said Jeff Brabant, head of the Federal Government Group.
“When you represent production, retail, agriculture, services, everything under the sun, it affects everyone a little differently,” said Mr. Brabant. “I just don’t think it’s a crystal clear answer.”
