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I'm John Baxter with my good friend Gene Marks, the small business columnist, watching carefully the American economy here in the turmoil of the wars and in the unknowns of the tariffs and in the

unusual decision making in the White House. At the same time, we have some facts. One of them is

that the Republicans are associated with deregulation.

Gene, how are they doing?

Well, so there's a double-edged sword here.

So for starters, there really hasn't been a whole lot of new regulations from the federal government,

particularly that affect businesses like, you know,

from the Department of Labor, the EEOC, the NLRB, they've all been sort of defanged.

And then, of course, the EPA and other, you know, agriculture department, a lot of regulations

there have been rolled back. So there, there is that, which is, which is good news.

But on the federal side, I do want to, you know, I do want to be clear, like, these agencies are still pretty darn active.

I mean, if you go to the EEOC's newsroom, you know, they, there is, I mean, there's just dozens and dozens of lawsuits that they're filing against discrimination claims for companies

all around the guy. I mean, they are very active, the EEOC. Now, these discrimination claims,

by the way, they're trying to back up, you know, people being sort of reverse discriminated,

you know, so it's not like the minority employee not getting the job. It's almost like we're suing this company. The EEOC is because, you know, so it's not like the minority employee not getting the job. It's almost like we're suing this

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