{"id":1094,"date":"2025-04-06T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/small-businesses-face-a-tornado-of-challenges-cuts-freezes-and-now-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:20:26","slug":"small-businesses-face-a-tornado-of-challenges-cuts-freezes-and-now-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/small-businesses-face-a-tornado-of-challenges-cuts-freezes-and-now-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Businesses Face a \u2018Tornado\u2019 of Challenges: Cuts, Freezes and Now Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was a bad week for Ben Coryell, who runs a wilderness guiding company in Golden, Colo.<\/p>\n

He got several calls from customers who wanted to cancel their climbing courses and mountaineering expeditions over the summer, often citing second thoughts about big purchases as the Trump administration has thrown the economy into turmoil with eye-watering tariffs.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Mr. Coryell is wondering how long his business, Golden Mountain Guides<\/a>, can continue to offer those trips, as personnel cuts at the National Park Service have held up the processing of the permits he needs to operate along high-demand routes. And with those cuts leaving fewer rangers on patrol, he fears that unlicensed operators could run amok.<\/p>\n

So far he hasn\u2019t laid anyone off, but it seems increasingly likely that he may have to.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really starting to feel like a lot of the operations we\u2019ve depended on might have to be bumped for the next number of years until we can find a healthy status quo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n