WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 7, 2026) – The National Federation of Independent Business, the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, submitted testimony for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Small Business ahead of its hearing entitled, “A Voice for Small Business: How the SBA Office of Advocacy is Cutting Red Tape” highlighting the Trump Administration and Congress’ work to lower onerous regulations for small businesses and offering long-term solutions to reduce regulatory burdens on Main Street.

“The Trump Administration’s commonsense regulatory agenda has been a much-needed sigh of relief for small businesses who have been crushed by previous federal overregulation and overreach into their business operations,” said Dylan Rosnick, NFIB Principal of Federal Government Relations. “However, without Congressional action, this relief will be short term, and small businesses will suffer from the regulatory pendulum swings that make long-term planning and investments so difficult. NFIB urges Congress to enact long-term relief during the 119th Congress that protects small businesses from federal government overregulation and government intrusion.”

Specifically, NFIB urges Congress to:

• Permanently repeal the Corporate Transparency Act‘s (CTA) Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting mandate or codify into law the rule exempting American small businesses from BOI and destroy the data already submitted by U.S. small businesses.
• Pass meaningful small business regulatory reform like requiring smaller regulations for small businesses compared to bigger businesses and/or forcing agencies to consider regulatory impacts on small businesses before issuing one-size-fits-all regulations.
• Use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to expeditiously repeal burdensome regulations for small businesses that were never submitted to Congress.

Read NFIB’s full letter to the U.S. House Committee on Small Business here.

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For over 80 years, NFIB has been advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C., and in all 50 state capitals. NFIB is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and member-driven. Since our founding in 1943, NFIB has been exclusively dedicated to small and independent businesses, and remains so today. For more information, please visit nfib.com.