NSBA works every day to ensure small businesses are supported by a comprehensively funded administrative resources and support and continues to monitor reception of the President's FY27 budget proposal on Capitol Hill and across our community.

NSBA and our Small Business Technology Council (SBTC) are grateful to Congress for their prioritization of small-business support in critical fund designations for technology research and development under the SBIR/STTR programs and urge the President to sign the S. 3971 reauthorization into law without delay.

NSBA and our Small Business Technology Council (SBTC) continue urging action on S. 3971 - a 5-year reauthorization plan to reinstate the SBIR/STTR small-business technology and development programs - without delay.

NSBA and our Small Business Technology Council (SBTC) continue urging action on the S. 3971 5-year reauthorization plan - further delays will add to harm caused by lapse of SBIR/STTR programs.

In our 20th year of conducting an Economic Survey and publishing a corresponding Economic Report, 2026 data from NSBA provides a comprehensive look at small-business uncertainty and its impacts on growth, hiring, financing, policy, and a host of other key indicators. 

NSBA's Small Business Technology Council (SBTC) are privileged continue leading the fight for small business to reauthorize and permanently enact SBIR/STTR programs to support better technology and R&D development opportunities for the nation's most important economic community.

After five months of arguing, the Senate advanced and the House passed a 5-year bill to reauthorize SBIR/STTR for small-business technology research and development.

NSBA continues to monitor tariff developments from D.C., urging Congress and Administration to remember how constant shifts in regulations harm small businesses, and supporting legislation to provide an exemption for the nation's most important economic community.

Following the SCOTUS tariff ruling, NSBA continues to advocate for common sense, small-business policies providing clarity and stability, and we are closely monitoring developments to ensure small-business voices remain front and center as the effects from the decision evolve.

NSBA continues urging the Administration to remember the regulatory burdens small-business owners face from the constant shift of definitions and rules, including the joint employer rule, commending leaders in Washington for pursuit of common sense standards best serving the nation's most important economic community.