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Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

'It's Complete BS!': Pocan Absolutely Flames Kelly Loeffler Over Tariffs' Impacts On Small Business

Published July 14, 2026 | Video Starts at 01:23

Joint Economic Committee found Data that said 292,000 jobs, small businesses were lost in 2025, larger than any other year since QuickBooks started reporting these numbers. That's Four and a half times larger than the number of jobs lost in 2020 during the pandemic. Donald Trump has been worse than the pandemic in for people, jobs and for small businesses. So as one of those small business owners and I dealt every day, it was a business to business business, right? (01:23–01:30)

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Asserts that the number of small business jobs lost in 2025 was 4.5 times larger than in 2020.

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“There's no specific program for small businesses who've been hurt by tariffs we've created.”
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“Who pays tariffs are these small businesses who've been impacted, 42,600 on average last September.”
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“Yard sign wires for politicians, we made political signs for folks. We saw the steel costs increase because of the tariffs.”
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“The fact that you're talking to businesses and not hearing this, I'll tell you just bluntly, not as even a member of Congress, as a guy…”
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