Since President Trump triggered a global price boost, Congress Democrats have worked to highlight owners of small businesses who say that prices and economic work threaten their livelihoods.
In videos on social networks, local news, press conferences and Capitol Hill hearings, democrats have highlighted the fate of local entrepreneurs who describe to be forced to increase prices, to dismiss workers, to hire hiring and slow sales to keep stocks while absorbing the impact of Mr. Trump’s business movements.
This is a way in which Democrats are trying to use the problem of prices in their broader strategy to portray Mr. Trump and the Republicans as addressing the rich and powerful to the detriment of ordinary Americans. The objective occurs while Democrats are working to recover as workers’ party and accuse the Republicans, historically known as an activity party, of stifling US entrepreneurship.
“President Trump’s trade war is an economic criminal fire on Main Street, and these people are burned,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat in New York and the minority manager at a press conference this week with several owners of small businesses.
“The outcry we hear from our small businesses echoes what we heard at the start of the COVVI-19 pandemic,” said Nydia representative Mr. Velázquez, the best democrat of the Small Business Committee, at the A shadow hearing Held Thursday by the Democrats of the Chamber. “Except that this time, the government causes pain, does not work to mitigate it.”
Democratic leaders have encouraged their basic members to focus on small businesses. Many of them did it last month when they stretched through the country during a two -week recreation.
Senator Jacky Rosen from Nevada visited a Travel Bag Company bicycle In Reno, whose owner said that even if he was grateful, the Trump administration had interrupted his two -digit “reciprocal” prices on countries like Vietnam, his source of fabric, continuous uncertainty would prevent his business from hiring more local staff as their business is developing.
The two AMY KLOBUCHAR Senators from Minnesota and the representative Pete Aguilar of California spoken with homemade brewery owners In their states, on how 25% levies on aluminum could force them to increase prices.
And the representative Nancy Pelosi of California gathered owners of small businesses in a San Francisco produces a warehouse To rail against the “fear and uncertainty” that the president’s prices had instilled in them, their employees and their customers.
Republicans argue that small businesses are thriving under Mr. Trump. Kelly Loeffler, head of the Small Business Administration, said that American manufacturers are heading an “industrial return”, highlighting a 74% increase Loan approval To help small manufacturers develop. She also said that The small businesses she is talking about Trump “to have had strength and spine to resist opponents and allies are” grateful “to have had the strength and the spine.
Asked in a recent interview if he would consider tariff exemptions for small businesses, Trump made fun.
“They will not need it. They will earn so much money,” said Trump in the interview with Kristen Welker on “Meet The Press” of NBC last Sunday.
Earlier in the interview, he had criticized Ms. Welker to focus on small businesses.
“What about the automotive sector?” He asked. “They will make a fortune because of the prices.”
For Amy Leinbach, a Texas business owner who spoke at the press conference of Mr. Schumer, the news of the prices embittered which would have been a year pierced for his shop, “Big Bee, Little Bee”. Ms. Leinbach designs and sells a range of silicone food storage containers and children’s products.
Although she does not consider herself as a politically active person, Ms. Leinbach said that she felt forced to denounce the prices shortly after their announcement, then connected to the hand Street Alliance, a progressive group for the defense of small businesses that helped organize the press conference to further amplify its history.
“I’m not even going for my figures now. We had sales goals, but literally, it’s out the window now,” said Leinbach. “Our goal is purely survival on the market until something changes.”
These stories did not seem to move the needle in the congress led by the Republicans, where the room proactively gave in its power to put an end to the prices and efforts of Mr. Trump’s Senate to do so, either failed or blocked.
Senator John Curtis, republican of UTAH, acknowledged that the prices were “in a disproportionate way for small businesses” and said that he had relayed the stories of many owners to the White House. But he said that he would not support the legislation presented last week last week by senator Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat, who would exempt small companies from prices.
The American Chamber of Commerce, which traditionally supports republican candidates And align with conservative policies, has underlined the fears of owners of small businesses and even called the administration to Granting price exemptions For local businesses and those who cannot cause their products at the national level, such as coffee roasters.
But the National Federation of Independent Businesses, one of the main lobbying groups for small businesses, has not taken a position on prices, given the lack of consensus among its members. Timer big conclusions on how small businesses at all levels react to prices are “difficult,” said Jeff Brabant, leader of the federal government relations group.
“When you represent manufacturing, retail, agriculture, services, everything under the sun, it affects everyone a little differently,” said Brabant. “I don’t think it’s a crystalline response.”