National Small Business Week, 2018

Vol. 83

Wednesday,

No. 85

May 2, 2018

Part IV

The President

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Proclamation 9730--National Small Business Week, 2018

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 9730 of April 27, 2018

National Small Business Week, 2018

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

During Small Business Week, we recognize the ingenuity
of the American spirit and the renewed promise of the
American Dream. America is a country of innovators,
entrepreneurs, and builders. Our Nation's strength is
derived from our people's initiative and desire to
create a better tomorrow for our country through hard
work and determination.

Small businesses are at the heart of our Nation. Our
country's 30 million small businesses employ nearly 58
million Americans--48 percent of the labor force. Each
year, small businesses create two-out-of-three net new,
private-sector jobs in the United States. For this
reason, my Administration worked with the Congress to
enact a tax relief plan that provides small businesses
with hundreds of billions in additional tax cuts.
Moreover, we remain focused on eliminating unnecessary
and unduly burdensome regulations, which hurt
hardworking Americans. Across the Nation, we are
enabling entrepreneurs to invest more of their time and
hard-earned profits into growing their businesses and
delivering better value for American consumers.

As we usher in a new era of American prosperity, my
Administration will continue to implement a pro-growth
agenda based on policies that champion small business
creation and growth, giving more Americans the
opportunity to start, scale, and succeed in businesses
of their own. We will ensure trade deals are fair and
reciprocal, cutting the barriers that prevent American
producers from selling their products abroad. We are
protecting our economic interests and intellectual
property by investing in our Nation's cybersecurity,
making sure our workforce has the education, skills,
and training that small business owners demand, and
investing in our country's infrastructure to improve
productivity and the ability to transport goods and
services.

This week, we celebrate all the entrepreneurs who have
taken a risk to start and grow a small business. They
are driven by a belief that they can do something
better, smarter, and more efficient than what has been
done before. They make our neighborhoods vibrant places
to live and work. They invest in their neighbors and
employ millions of Americans. When they succeed, we all
succeed.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim April 29 through May
5, 2018, as Small Business Week. I call upon all
Americans to recognize the critical contributions of
America's entrepreneurs and small business owners as
they grow our Nation's economy.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
second.