{"id":68628,"date":"2026-03-10T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/senate-democrats-introduce-bill-to-shield-small-businesses-from-trumps-new-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:57:02","slug":"senate-democrats-introduce-bill-to-shield-small-businesses-from-trumps-new-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/senate-democrats-introduce-bill-to-shield-small-businesses-from-trumps-new-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats introduce bill to shield small businesses from Trump\u2019s new tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill is in response to president\u2019s latest push to impose tariffs, but it\u2019s likely to stall in Republican-majority Senate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/10\/donald-trump-iran-georgia-immigration-mississippi-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new Democrat-led bill seeks to exempt small businesses from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s latest round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tariffs<\/a>, as small business owners continue to reel from the impacts of the battle over the president\u2019s signature economic policy.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by the senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbc.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/0\/1\/01a85d52-07a6-46e9-8608-624cad3454c2\/E951E99C09187527189DE2F5FE6D93D7554E5B6CA20A821B132A940695B6126A.ros26308---with-cosponsors.pdf\">bill<\/a>, known as the \u201cSmall Business Liberation 2.0 Act\u201d, would exempt goods imported by or for the use of small businesses from new tariffs, which Donald Trump enacted on 20 February, immediately after the US supreme court\u2019s ruling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/trump-supreme-court-tariffs-ruling\">invalidating his \u201cliberation day\u201d tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/10\/senate-democrats-bill-small-businesses-trump-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill is in response to president\u2019s latest push to impose tariffs, but it\u2019s likely to stall in Republican-majority Senate US politics live \u2013 latest updates A new Democrat-led bill seeks to exempt small businesses from Donald Trump\u2019s latest round of tariffs, as small business owners continue to reel from the impacts of the battle over &#8230; <a title=\"Senate Democrats introduce bill to shield small businesses from Trump\u2019s new tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/senate-democrats-introduce-bill-to-shield-small-businesses-from-trumps-new-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senate Democrats introduce bill to shield small businesses from Trump\u2019s new tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}