Since President Trump unleashed a whip of global tariffs, the Democrats of Congress have worked to highlight the owners of small businesses who say that tariffs and economic work threaten their livelihoods.
In videos on social networks, local news, conferences and audiences of Capitol Hill News, the Democrats have highlighted the difficult situation of local entrepreneurs who describe that they are forced to increase prices, fire workers, freeze contracting and slow sales to preserve actions actions of slow actions or sales. Trump’s trade moves.
It is a way in which the Democrats try to use the problem of the rate in their broader strategy of portraying Trump and the Republicans who attend the rich and powerful at the expense of common Americans. The approach focuses as the Democrats work to reformed as the Workers’ Party and accuse the Republicans, historical known as the business party or to quell US entrepreneurship.
“President Trump’s commercial war is an economic fire in Main Street, and these people are burning,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat and the minority leader, at a press conference this week with several small businesses.
“The protest we hear from our small businesses echoes what we heard that he heard the days of the Covid-13 pandemic,” said representative Nydia M. Velázquez, the main democrat of the small businesses committee, in a shadow. “Except this time, the government is causing pain, not working to relieve it.”
Democratic leaders have encouraged their rank and archive members to focus on small businesses. Many of them did it last month when they live throughout the country for a two -week recess.
Senator Jacky Rosen de Nevada toured a company of bicycle trips in Reno, whose owner said that, although he was grateful that the Trump administration had stopped its “reciprocal” two -digit tariffs in countries such as Vietnam, its fabric of the source of hiring more local personnel as its business grows.
Both Senator Amy Klobuchar de Minnesota and representative Pete Aguilar de California spoke with the owners of Cervecería Artesanal in their states about how the taxes of 25 percent on aluminum could force them to increase prices.
And the representative Nancy Pelosi or California gathered the owners of small businesses in a San Francisco product warehouse to strengthen the “fear and uncertainty” that the president’s tariffs had instilled in them, their employees and their clients.
Republicans argue that small businesses are thriving under Mr. Trump. Kelly Loeffler, head of the administration of small businesses, has declared that American manufacturers are leading an “industrial return”, pointing out a 74 percent increase in loan approvals to help small manufacturers to expand. He has also said that the small businesses with which he speaks are “grateful” to Mr. Trump “for having the strength and spine to face the opponents and allies equally.”
When asked in a recent interview if he would consider tariff exemptions for small businesses, Trump mocked.
“They won’t need it. They will earn a lot of money,” Trump said in the interview with Kristen Welker in “Meet The Press” of NBC last Sunday.
Previously in the interview, he had criticized the EM. Welker for focusing on small businesses.
“What about the car business?” Hello Ash. “They are going to make a fortune due to rates.”
For Amy Leinbach, a Texas business owner who spoke at the press conference of Mr. Schumer, the tariff news grouped what would otherwise have an innovative year for his store, “Big Bee, Little Bee”. Mrs. Leinbach designs and sells an ecological silicone food storage containers and children’s products.
Although it is not considered an active political person, Mrs. Leinbach said she felt forced to talk about tariffs shortly after they were announced, and then connected to Main Street Alliance, a defense group of small progressive businesses that helped organize the press conference to further amplify its history.
“I’m not even for my number now. We had sales goals, but literally, that’s out of the window now,” Leinbach said. “Our goal is purely survival in the market until something changes.”
These stories have not seemed to move the needle in the Congress led by the Republicans, where the camera has proactively assigned its power to end Trump’s rates and the efforts of the Senate to do so have failed or stagnate.
Senator John Curtis, a Utah Republican, acknowledged that the tariffs were “disproportionately hard for small businesses” and said he had conveyed numerous stories of the owners to the White House. But he said he would not support the legislation presented this week by Senator Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, who would exempt small businesses from the rates.
The United States Chamber of Commerce, which traditions supports Republican candidates and aligns with conservative policies, highlighted the fears of small businesses and has even asked the administration to grant tariff exemptions for local companies and those falling from the feasible falls.
But the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the main lobbying groups for the interests of small businesses, does not have a position on rates, given the lack of consensus among its members. Bringing broad conclusions about how small businesses in all areas are responding to tariffs is “complicated,” said Jeff Babant, head of relations between the group’s federal government.
“When it represents manufacturing, retail trade, agriculture, services, everything under the sun, affects everyone a little different,” Brabant said. “I just don’t think it’s a crystalline response.”
