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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Today, we talk with Emily Ley, whose small business has put her into an unexpected role: plaintiff against the Trump administration. She candidly discusses how recent tariff policies are impacting her business, employees, and will impact customers in the weeks and months ahead. Listen for a revealing conversation about the personal cost of trade politics for American entrepreneurs.
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. This is Sarah Stewart-Holland. This is Beth Silvers. You're listening to Pantsuit |
0:16.7 | Politics, and today we are going to get very detailed about the effects of the president's tariffs. |
0:22.2 | If you're like me, I'm reading a lot of articles that say, here are things you need to stock up on before the tariffs start to impact your shopping. |
0:29.1 | All of the reporting recognizes that for us as consumers, there's kind of a lag between the Liberation Day announcements and feeling the effects of those announcements. But small |
0:39.8 | business owners have not experienced that lag. They are feeling the heat right now and sounding |
0:44.2 | alarms about how the tariffs are impacting their businesses. So we wanted to bring you a |
0:48.9 | conversation with someone who understands these tariffs very well. Emily Lay is the owner of simplified, which I love. I'm sure many of you do too. I've used her |
0:58.4 | planners and office products for years. And she has really been trying to educate people about what the tariffs are, who writes the check for them, and how they impact her business. She has also filed a lawsuit against the Trump |
1:11.2 | administration for enacting these tariffs through a process that she says is unconstitutional. |
1:16.3 | So we're going to talk with Emily about all of that today. And then we're going to talk with her |
1:20.2 | next Tuesday, May 13th, on Substack Live to answer follow-up questions. You can email us, |
1:26.2 | hello at PantsuitPolitics show.com. You can comment on the |
1:29.2 | episode on Substack. Let us know what else you want to hear from Emily, and we'll have that discussion |
1:33.7 | next Tuesday. Before we dive in, two quick notes. If you are doing your Mother's Day shopping a little |
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