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White House's secret weapon on US infrastructure: Small businesses

White House officials have held a spate of private briefings with small business leaders to explain Biden's more than $2 trillion-dollar plan

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Jarrett Renshaw | Reuters
The Biden administration is seeking to leverage a secret weapon in its bid to get corporate America to pay for a sweeping jobs and infrastructure package: the nation's some 30 million small businesses.
 
The White House's effort, previously unreported, seeks to harness the political popularity of small businesses and the current agitation among them over a tax structure many view as generous to larger, billion-dollar corporations like Walmart and Amazon.com over Main Street establishments.
 
In doing so, the White House believes it has allies that will serve as an antidote to the large national trade groups – like

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