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   The Trump administration logged more than $110 billion in regulatory   
   cost savings for small businesses in 2025, the direct result of a   
   targeted effort to cut unnecessary red tape – building on one of the   
   hallmarks of Trump’s first term. If that progress is a sign of things to   
   come, American small businesses are set to thrive in the years ahead.   
      
   The new finding was published in a recent report from the Office of   
   Advocacy at the Small Business Administration (SBA). The report   
   attributes the savings to rule changes and direct agency engagement that   
   reduced compliance costs for small businesses nationwide.   
      
   Trump’s deregulatory agenda has implications for consumers as well.   
   Biden-era regulations cost Americans an estimated $2 trillion – more   
   than $21,000 for the average family of four. But since Trump took   
   office, regulatory cuts have already saved the average family more than   
   $2,100.   
      
   SBA has moved to expand on that relief through a new Deregulation Strike   
   Force that is conducting a government-wide review of regulations it says   
   have disproportionately driven up costs for job creators and consumers.   
   The initiative, announced in December, is led by the Office of Advocacy   
   and targets Biden-era rules affecting housing, health care, agriculture,   
   energy, and transportation, according to the agency.   
      
   The Office of Advocacy said the regulatory relief seen during Trump’s   
   first year in office marks a sharp break from recent federal policy,   
   with annualized cost reductions more than 35 times larger than those   
   recorded during the Biden administration’s first year.   
      
   Office of Advocacy staff helped change 23 federal regulations through   
   agency engagement and flagged more than 350 regulatory issues in formal   
   public comment letters submitted to regulators. The office also reviewed   
   hundreds of proposed and existing rules to assess their impact on small   
   businesses and identify opportunities to reduce compliance burdens.   
      
   Congress created the SBA Office of Advocacy under the 1980 Regulatory   
   Flexibility Act, which requires federal agencies to consider how   
   proposed regulations affect small businesses. The office operates   
   independently within the executive branch and reports its findings   
   directly to Congress. The figures cited in the report come from the   
   SBA’s own regulatory analyses and internal accounting, not from outside   
   advocacy groups.   
      
   SBA said the Deregulation Strike Force will serve as the operational arm   
   of the administration’s effort to reduce regulatory costs for small   
   businesses by coordinating a government-wide review of Biden-era   
   regulations. During his first term, President Trump famously cut 10   
   existing regulations for every new one, and has pledged to continue that   
   pace in his second term.   
      
   According to SBA, the strike force will work across all federal   
   departments to identify rules that are costly, redundant, or misaligned   
   with statutory intent, with a focus on regulations that   
   disproportionately hurt small businesses.   
      
   SBA said the review will prioritize industries where regulatory costs   
   most directly affect consumer prices and small-business viability,   
   including housing and construction, health care and medical services,   
   agriculture and food production, energy and utilities, and   
   transportation.   
      
   SBA also said that its deregulatory effort has extended beyond   
   rulemaking into direct engagement with small businesses nationwide.   
      
   According to the report, advocacy staff met with entrepreneurs and job   
   creators in 48 states, spending thousands of hours in direct meetings to   
   identify regulatory barriers affecting day-to-day operations.   
      
   As part of that outreach, the agency launched a Red Tape Hotline to   
   collect complaints about burdensome regulations. The hotline received   
   462 submissions covering dozens of regulatory issues, the report said.   
   Advocacy staff used those submissions to prioritize agency engagement   
   and regulatory review.   
      
   The SBA said its staff stopped mistaken environmental or compliance   
   reviews, removed improper import or fee requirements, and cleared up   
   rules that had delayed time-sensitive shipments. In several cases, those   
   fixes came within days.   
      
   The SBA has also applied its deregulatory authority in emergency   
   settings. In January 2026, the agency began implementing an executive   
   order signed by President Trump directing the SBA to bypass state and   
   local permitting delays that have slowed wildfire recovery in   
   California.   
      
   Although the SBA approved $3.2 billion in disaster loans for California   
   wildfire survivors, the agency said less than 25 percent of the funds   
   had been distributed because permitting backlogs prevented rebuilding.   
   The SBA said it will issue new rules allowing borrowers to self-certify   
   compliance when approvals face unreasonable delays, enabling faster   
   recovery.   
      
   The Trump administration has also emphasized that deregulatory work does   
   not end with a handful of rule changes. If relief is to last, it   
   requires steady oversight of the federal rulemaking process, not   
   temporary regulatory relief that can be undone by the next   
   administration.   
      
   Accordingly, the Deregulation Strike Force reflects an effort to make   
   deregulation ongoing and routine rather than episodic, thus preventing   
   sudden surges of new rules that create uncertainty for small businesses   
   and force owners to plan around shifting compliance requirements.   
      
   For small businesses without political connections, lobbyists, or access   
   to bailouts, regulation is not an abstract policy debate. It determines   
   whether owners can invest and expand or remain trapped, navigating   
   costly, unnecessary rules that larger companies can afford to comply   
   with, but smaller companies cannot.   
      
   In other words, deregulation determines whether American   
   entrepreneurship thrives or withers and dies on the vine.   
      
   To seriously support small businesses, sustained deregulation must   
   remain a governing priority, not just a temporary political project. By   
   institutionalizing regulatory discipline and keeping pressure on federal   
   agencies, the Trump administration is giving entrepreneurs the certainty   
   they need to grow, hire, and compete.   
      
   https://amac.us/newsline/economy/small-businesses-thriving-as-trump-wages   
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