Local Comment on President’s First 100 Days

Date: April 27, 2017

News Release--Combined with Idaho legislative actions, small business is seeing something new

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Suzanne Budge, Idaho State Director, [email protected]
or Tony Malandra, Senior Media Manager, [email protected]

BOISE, Idaho, April 27, 2017—Judgment on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, which is Saturday, April 29, should be given in context with recent actions by the Idaho Legislature, believes the representative group at the center of the state’s economy.

In a 677-word editorial available for free use in media publications and on media websites, Suzanne Budge, Idaho state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, the state and nation’s largest small-business association, writes:

“For the nation’s small businesses one accomplishment of the president’s stands out above all others: His reining in of economy-crippling federal regulations. Here in Idaho, Gov. Butch Otter and our legislators deserve as much a hand for doing the same.

“Upon entering office President Trump went after the biggest culprit early, issuing an executive order requiring two existing regulations to be repealed for every new regulation imposed and ordering federal agencies to create a regulatory budget that would limit the regulatory costs they could impose.

“In February, the Idaho Legislature played tag-team partner to the president by passing Senate Bill 1, which Governor Otter signed into law. SB 1 solidified the right of elected officials to have final say on all rules and regulations and, if necessary, to reject the regulations put in place by state agencies.

“Throw in the president’s other executive orders slamming the brakes on forever-power-grabbing bureaucracies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and his successful nomination of a Supreme Court justice who believes in the rule of law as made by Congress, include our Legislature’s other accomplishments, such as prohibiting a crazy quilt of minimum-wage laws by denying local governments the ability to set their own rates, and what we are witnessing is the long-needed refurbishing of the house of the Idaho economy.

“There’s a very inviting welcome mat now outside its front door.”

Why small business? Small businesses make up 99 percent of all businesses in Idaho, employing 55 percent of all private-sector workers. Yet, small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses. Click here to learn the five distinctions.

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For more than 70 years, the National Federation of Independent Business has been the Voice of Small Business, taking the message from Main Street to the halls of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. NFIB annually surveys its members on state and federal issues vital to their survival as America’s economic engine and biggest creator of jobs. NFIB’s educational mission is to remind policymakers that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses; they have very different challenges and priorities.

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