The Job Creators Network was originally founded in 2010 under the name The Job Creators Alliance. JCN launched a "Bring Small Businesses Back" (BSBB) campaign in 2016. In April 2016, JCN hosted a BSBB event in Orlando featuring
Frank Luntz,
Mike Gallagher, and a panel of small business owners. Throughout 2017, JCN advocated for tax cuts through a campaign dubbed “Tax Cuts Now”, and offered the group's support to the
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which offered temporary tax cuts to individuals and permanent tax cuts to corporations. The Tax Cuts Now campaign included a bus tour that made stops across the country. JCN launched another bus tour in 2018, with the goal of promoting the
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Then-Speaker of the House
Paul Ryan joined JCN at stops on the tour, including one hosted at a small business in
Clinton, Wisconsin. The organization delivered thousands of petitions to Ryan in support of the legislation. In February 2019, the group put up a billboard in New York City's
Times Square blaming U.S. Representative
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for
Amazon's decision to abandon the building of the company's second headquarters in
Queens. After the congresswoman tweeted that the billboard was "wack", JCN put up two more billboards, one saying "Hey AOC, saw your wack tweet", the other, "Hey AOC, this billboard cost about $4,000. But you cost NY 25,000 jobs and $4,000,000,000 in annual lost wages." JCN highlighted this lawsuit in a series of
Times Square billboards, including one criticizing MLB Commissioner
Rob Manfred, saying he has “no balls, all strikes.” A judge ruled against JCN and the lawsuit was dropped. JCN regularly distributes a “Defender of Small Business” award to members of Congress, with past recipients including Missouri Rep.
Blaine Luetkemeyer and Minnesota Rep.
Jim Hagedorn. The organization also runs the "Information Station" website, which offers explainer-type videos and articles from a pro-business perspective.
Advocacy during COVID-19 pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, JCN oversaw campaigns on both healthcare policy and business policy. JCN hosted a petition on its "Healthcare for You" website for doctors to show their support for the drug
hydroxychloroquine, which had not been approved by the FDA for coronavirus treatment. The organization pledged to deliver the petitions to the White House and to “protect physician autonomy and medical decision-making as we stand in harm’s way to care for the American public.” President
Donald Trump and other White House staff had financial ties to drugmakers that are ramping up production of the drug. At the start of the pandemic, JCN president Alfredo Ortiz was in direct contact with
Steven Mnuchin, speaking with him three times in one day during stimulus package discussions. Ortiz recommended having private banks distribute PPP loans, rather than the Small Business Administration, a change Mnuchin implemented in the final policy.
Advocacy against student loan forgiveness In October 2022, the Job Creators Network Foundation Legal Action Fund filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Education Department and its then-secretary,
Miguel Cardona, seeking to block the Biden administration’s student loan debt forgiveness program. U.S. District Judge
Mark T. Pittman, who was appointed by Trump, struck down President
Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program in November 2022. ==Membership==