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Since President Trump unleashed an on-again, off-again whiplash of global rates, congress democrats have worked to shine owners of small companies that say that the rates and economically toil threaten their livelihood.
In videos on social media, local news stories, Capitol Hill news conferences and hearings, Democrats have brought the plight of local entrepreneurs who describe that they are forced to increase prices, to dismiss employees, freeze the recruitment and to retain the sale of the Lord Trump.
It is a way in which Democrats try to use the rate issue in their broader strategy to paint Mr Trump and Republicans as catering for the rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary Americans. The focus comes when Democrats work to rearrange themselves as the party of working people and accuse Republicans, historically known as the party of the business community, of suffocating American entrepreneurship.
“The trade war of President Trump is economic arson in Main Street, and these people are scorched,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat van New York and the minority leader, at a press conference this week with different owners of small companies.
“The protest that we hear from our small companies reflects what we have heard in the early days of the COVID-19 Pandemie,” said representative Nydia M. Velázquez, the top democrat in the Small Business Committee, at A shadow hearing Held on Thursday by Huisdemocrats. “Except this time, the government causes pain and does not work to relieve it.”
Democratic leaders have encouraged their rank and-file members to concentrate on small companies. Many of them did this last month when they fan the country through a two -week break.
Senator Jacky Rosen from Nevada toured one Bicycle Travel Bag Company In Reno whose owner said that although he was grateful that the Trump administration had paused his double digits “reciprocal” rates at countries such as Vietnam, his source for dust, the constant uncertainty would prevent his company from hiring more local staff as their company grows.
Both Senator Amy Klobuchar van Minnesota and representative Pete Aguile van California spoke with Craft Brewery -owners In their states about how the 25 percent levies on aluminum could force them to increase prices.
And representative Nancy Pelosi from California collected owners of small companies in one San Francisco Produce Warehouse To find out against the “fear and uncertainty” that the rates of the president had introduced them, their employees and their customers.
Republicans claim that owners of small companies are blooming under Mr Trump. Kelly Loeffler, head of the Small Business Administration, has stated that American manufacturers are leading an ‘industrial comeback’, pointing to an increase of 74 percent in approvals for loans To help small manufacturers expand. She said that too The small companies with whom she talks are “grateful” for Mr. Trump “for having the power and the backbone to stand up against both opponents and allies.”
Asked in a recent interview if he would consider tariff exemptions for small companies, Mr. Trump spotted.
“They won’t need it. They will earn so much money,” Mr Trump said in the interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last Sunday.
Earlier in the interview he had criticized Mrs. Welker because he had focused on small companies.
“What about the car company?” he asked. “They are going to earn a fortune because of the rates.”
For Amy Leinbach, a Texas business owner who spoke at Mr Schumer’s press conference, the news about the rates would have been a breakthrough year for her store, “Big Bee, Little Bee.” Mrs. Leinbach designs and sells a line of environmentally friendly silicone food storage containers and children’s products.
“I don’t even go for my numbers now. We had sales goals, but literally that is now out of the window,” said Mrs. Leinbach. “Our goal is purely survival in the market until something changes.”
Those stories did not seem to relocate the needle in the congress -led Congress, where the house proactively handed over its power to end the rates of Mr Trump and the senate efforts to do this, failed or stuck.
Senator John Curtis, Republican of Utah, acknowledged that rates “were disproportionately hard for small companies” and said that he had passed on countless stories of owners to the White House. But he said that he would not support the legislation that was introduced this week by Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat van Massachusetts, who would exempt small companies from the rates.
The American Chamber of Commerce, which traditionally Supports Republican candidates and is in line with the conservative policy, has emphasized the fears of owners of small companies and even called on the administration Rent Tariff -Exemptions For local companies and those who cannot involve their products in their own country, such as coffee roasters.
But the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the most important lobby groups for interests of small companies, has not taken a position on the rates, given the lack of consensus among its members. Drawing broad conclusions about how small companies respond to rates across the board is “difficult,” Jeff Brabant said, head of federal government relationships.
“When you represent production, retail, agriculture, services, everything under the sun, this influences everyone a little differently,” said Mr Brabant. “I just don’t think it’s a crystal clear answer.”
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