CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Republican politicians are traveling the state, celebrating what President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is doing for small businesses.

TV9 chatted with two small business leaders today after a roundtable with Senator Joni Ernst, Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, and the country’s Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler. The business owners said this new law is good for them.

“Small businesses are built step by step,” said Eric Van Kerckhove.

Van Kerckhove is the Mayor of Palo, but he’s also the owner of Allegra Marketing Print Mail, a small business in Cedar Rapids.

“Hard work after hard work. Great staff, great team, great leadership, that’s how a business is built, along with funding,” Van Kerckhove said.

Van Kerchkhove was just one of several sma

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