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I am a small business owner of it in business for about five years, and I've been doing pretty well financially for the last four years until January hit.

And now a lot of the current administration's policies have hit

about every single section of my job. What business are you? Tell me about your business.

So I'm a consulting firm that helps to support humanitarian initiatives with corporations, colleges,

and school districts. So essentially, they bring me in as

a consultant to repurpose their furniture and fixed assets with charities around the world.

Okay. And I'm just curious, not trying to get into a political rabbit hole, but how are the

current policies affecting your income?

So first off, we're women-owned certified small business.

So the DEI initiative, we took a pretty hard hit with that in January.

The grants for the university is being revoked that caused some cash crunches for some of the programs

and some of the projects that they do traditionally over the summer.

Gotcha.

You know, funding for the public schools, you know, obviously if they don't, if programs

are being let go or, you know, Department of Education is, you know, being restructured all

of those things.

School districts are downsizing themselves and kind of wondering how they're going to have the programs that they need to take care of their students. Right. And then obviously the tariffs, which we all know that's a subject in and of itself, but how are the tariffs? All those factors combined. Okay. All right. So bottom line is, is that money has dried up.

What was coming in freely to pay for your consulting services have dried up.

Yeah.

And where I'm at right now is, like, I've done, you know, I knew that this was coming.

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