SAVANNAH, Georgia—Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler celebrated Friday’s jobs report, dismissed fears about a tariff-induced recession, and expressed optimism that the U.S. economy is “spring-loaded” for success.
“Every meeting I come out of with manufacturers, they are completely enthusiastic and optimistic,” Loeffler told The Daily Signal in an interview at the Job Creators Network’s Freedom Fighters Summit in Savannah on Friday.
“They’re saying, ‘This can happen in America. I’ve been fighting that narrative, that we can’t make it here,’” she said, conveying the manufacturers’ message.
Loeffler went over what her agency had achieved in the first 100 days of the administration: cutting climate activist and diversity lending programs in order to focus on merit; moving regional offices out of “sanctuary” cities that prevent law…
