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Edward Markey: “We should exempt small businesses and let them know that…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Senate Debate on Small Business Tariff Exemptions: Edward Markey vs. Bernie Moreno

Published | Video Starts at 20:20

Those are always the casualties and they've been drafted into this battle of big businesses. So again, I appreciate the comments of the gentleman from Ohio. I think he's wrong. I think We should exempt small businesses and let them know that they are not going to be driven out of business. by this still unplanned guided missile heading right towards every main street in our country that's going to be destructive of the hard earned success those small businesses have had. (20:20–20:28)

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Advocates for exempting small businesses from tariffs to prevent them from failing.

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