Comment by mystified5016

I work for a US startup manufacturing (as much as is feasible) in the US.

Because of the embarrassment that is meant to be our government, DoE hasn't paid for a contract completed in December (including physical goods), and DoD has silently stopped all of the R&D contracts we've been applying for.

We're about a week or three away from bankruptcy.

Our only foreign vendors are for PCBs and a particular type of motor. US PCB fabs are and have always been vastly more expensive and really don't do small scale runs at any sort of reasonable price. The motors? No one makes them domestically.

I'd gripe more, but this administration simply doesn't care about little guys like us. US small business are going to start dropping like flies soon.