White House responds after being urged to act on tariffs to stop recession We told you earlier about the US Chamber of Commerce urging the Trump administration to implement tariffs exclusions to stop the country falling into a recession (see 1.58pm post). That has now been put to the White House's deputy chief of staff, who refused to commit to tariff relief for small businesses. "The relief for small businesses is going to come in the form of the largest tax cut in American history, a tax cut, by the way, that every single Democrat is planning to vote against," Stephen Miller said. "This will be the most pro small business tax bill in American history and, at the same time, we have to understand about the plan as we're able to restore those supply chains, that also means they'll pay no tariff. "So you'll have the lowest tax environment, and there'll be no tariff because their production and supply chains will be in the United States."