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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.”

To address the rising costs of debit card interchange fees, Small Business Majority recently joined a coalition of eight organizations to file an amicus brief in Corner Post v. Federal Reserve Board. The brief argues that the Federal Reserve’s implementation of Regulation II, which enforces the Durbin Amendment’s cap on debit interchange fees, fails to sufficiently protect small businesses and consumers from excessive interchange fees - allowing banks and debit card issuers to continue charging excessively high fees. 

Immigrant entrepreneurs and workers play a vital role in Main Street economies, driving job growth, innovation, and small business success. Yet, rising immigration enforcement and restrictive federal policies are disrupting businesses, workforce stability, and local communities. This fact sheet highlights the economic contributions of immigrant-owned businesses, the impact of enforcement actions, and bipartisan solutions that can help small businesses thrive while supporting a fair, commonsense immigration system.

Small businesses and their employees need a comprehensive federal paid family and medical leave (PFML) program that works for Main Street. This fact sheet outlines why small business owners support a national PFML solution, how existing incentives fall short, and what federal policymakers should prioritize to ensure workers and entrepreneurs can access reliable, affordable 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.

Widespread tariffs are driving up costs for small businesses and their customers, creating uncertainty that threatens growth and stability on Main Street. This fact sheet highlights new survey data showing how tariffs are impacting small business operations, forcing price increases, delaying expansion and squeezing already-thin margins. It also features firsthand stories from entrepreneurs across the country describing how tariff volatility is affecting their bottom line. Download this resource to learn why tariff policy matters for small businesses.

On January 28, Small Business Majority sent a letter to U.S. Senate leadership urging lawmakers to prioritize efforts to avert a partial shutdown impacting key small business programs ahead of the January 30th deadline while also taking the necessary time to address the immigration enforcement crisis that is hurting small businesses, our economy and our nation as a whole.

Immigrant entrepreneurs are essential to small business growth, and small business owners strongly support immigration reform that works. Research shows overwhelming support for modernizing the legal immigration system, creating pathways to legal status, and rejecting mass deportation policies that would harm businesses and the economy. This fact sheet is compiled from U.S. Census data and Small Business Majority’s 2025 Voice of Main Street research.

On January 22, Small Business Majority submitted a statement for the record in response to a recent U.S. House Committee on the Budget hearing titled “Reverse the Curse: Skyrocketing Health Care Costs and America’s Fiscal Future.” The statement details how extending the ACA’s enhanced subsidies, strengthening healthcare price transparency and implementing site-neutral payment reform across healthcare settings will increase competition in healthcare and lower costs for small businesses and consumers.