Listen and agree to live not so fabulous Apple Podcasts, Spotifyor wherever you find your favorite podcast.
As President Trump’s administration begins to take effect, many marginalized groups are nervous about what this means to them. Within 24 hours of taking office, President Trump has already signed an executive order revoking the Federal guidelines of Dei and another offensive transgender and other LGBTQ+people. Can small business owners face – and marginalized entrepreneurs – face issues that run their small businesses under this new administration?
Although many have been preparing for a gloomy four years, former Director of Public Affairs and Senior Advisor to Biden Jonathan Lovitz does not worry about small entrepreneurs.
“Despite anyone in the White House or state houses across the country, the universal truth of what small business never needs to change: access to capital, access to opportunities and room to grow,” he said He (see the video above or the podcast link below).
Lovitz argued that despite the current political tension, “all from all sides of the line agree” that small businesses are essential to the American economy. Small businesses make up 99.9% of all firms in the US and are the “most important work creator” of the country.
“If there was a lesson I learned to work with the mayors and governors and now the members of the room and the Senate, red or blue, everyone see Green,” Lovitz told co-awaits and men David & John Auten -Schneider to live not so fabulous. “If we can meet in the middle for an economic outcome, we can work through our political and ideological differences.”
Lovitz said that although support from the Federal Government for under -representative communities may not be so strong, local and state governments have begun to enter to provide new initiatives and support of business owners.
“I think what is really exciting now is, as people are worried about what can happen at Washington’s national level,” he said.
Lovitz appointed governors as Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who signed an executive order in 2023 to prioritize small businesses and owned by minorities when sharing government contracts.
“I think there has never been a bad time to be the owner of small business in the United States, but especially in these moments when we can feel extra pressure, sociological pressure, political pressure, community pressure, that is A great time to remember why we have always survived, especially as LGBT business owners, ”he said.
