Dana Ferguson

Yeah.

You mentioned earlier that small businesses are responding and putting like signs up in windows.

It's pretty common and it's not, again, just in the Twin Cities.

There are suburban and greater Minnesota businesses that are not able to staff up to do what they need to right now.

A lot of restaurants have closed.

I just saw a Facebook post for a Mexican restaurant in the town where I live just outside of Minneapolis closed.

saying that they have to close for a while, hoping folks are understanding about that.

There have been a lot of places where folks have put up signs of support on those businesses or made sure to buy gift cards or do volunteer shifts to help them to make sure that they stay in business because

restaurant businesses, that's a really difficult industry and being out for a matter of weeks can make or break a business.

So it's just a hard hit for a lot of folks.

And a lot of these places that are being particularly impacted are along Lake Street in Minneapolis.

And that's a corridor that was really, really hit hard.

At the same time, there are some really big companies headquartered in the Twin Cities that have been awfully silent, it seems.

That's right.

We have a number of Fortune 500 companies that are based here, Target, 3M, many others.

And we have reached out at NPR to hear from these big organizations to hear, you know, why aren't we seeing more of a response from you as community leaders?

You could have a big

if you said something and could potentially sway what the administration might do.

But I think after some of the feedback to different campaigns that they've had, they just feel a little bit fearful of speaking out and upsetting the Trump administration.

Sure.