toll being taken on small businesses throughout the United States.

In this week’s episode of On The Record With Atlanta News First, Kelly Loeffler, director of the U.S. Small Business Administration, talks with Political Reporter Doug Reardon about the impact of the political impasse on Capitol Hill on American small business.

Also in this week’s show:

• Jason Carter has endorsed a fellow former state senator, in Georgia’s nationally watched governor’s race.

• Vernon Jones announced this week he is running as a Republican in Georgia’s open secretary of state election next year.
• President Donald Trump has not yet decided who he will endorse in Georgia’s other critical midterm election, that being the U.S. Senate.