Howard Lutnick

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Deportations, not tariffs, impacted small business in the economic fallout.

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explicitly argued that a government shutdown and mass deportations, rather than tariffs, were responsible for the decline in small business jobs.The Baseline automated desk · Oct 4, 2026