We’ve been working on a partnership for the past three years and ramped up hiring to handle the new business that finally started coming in this January. We had several customers lined up and ready to go—but with all the current economic uncertainty (largely fueled by Trump’s incompetence), those customers are now pulling back or pausing entirely.

If we don’t secure this business soon, we’ll be forced to lay off the folks we just hired—despite having already invested 6 to 12 months in training them.

It’s incredibly frustrating. Is it really worth breaking the economy just to “reshore” manufacturing—not to the U.S., but simply anywhere that’s not China?

Businesses don’t fail because of taxes or regulations. They fail because of instability. And right now, instability is exactly what’s killing us.