Policy Statements

On February 25, Small Business Majority Vice President, State Policy & Advoacy Awesta Sarkash submitted written testimony in support of SB26-041. This legislation would require greater transparency for healthcare mergers and acquisitions, and strengthen Colorado's antitrust laws to protect competition.

On February 25, Small Business Majority submitted a statement for the record in response to a U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee Subcommittee on Workforce Protections hearing titled “Balancing Careers and Care: Examining Innovative Approaches to Paid Leave.”

Small Business Majority Founder & CEO John Arensmeyer sent a letter to President Trump outlining the state of small businesses ahead of the State of the Union address. The letter examines the stark reality facing Main Street: the dual pressures of skyrocketing healthcare costs and the direct consequences of sweeping tariffs and escalating immigration enforcement have made it increasingly difficult for small businesses to sustain and grow their operations. To provide immediate relief to Main Street, Mr. Arensmeyer urged the administration to adopt small business-friendly policies, which include ending sweeping tariffs, renewing expired healthcare premium tax credits that lower costs for marketplace participants, and halting disruptive immigration enforcement tactics that exacerbate workforce shortages.

Small business owners are at the epicenter of a growing national affordability crisis. The cost of starting and growing a small business continues to rise, from ballooning healthcare premium rates and rising childcare costs to inflated tariff rates impacting global supply chains.