LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – As the Trump Administration aims to eliminate government waste and federal employees are being laid off by the thousands, government contracts are also on the chopping block. A Las Vegas area small business with government contracts says it is being impacted by DOGE cuts in a big way. It says federal government credit cards are now declining.
Over the years, Splash Box Marketing has had contracts with all kinds of government agencies. They make sure their website is compliant with laws requiring them to be accessible to those with disabilities, specifically the visual impairment. For now, everything’s on hold.
“We do remediation for the entire National Park System. So, anything that is on a National Parks website we touch…we’re talking probably about 100,000 documents a year,” revealed CEO Jenny Woldt. Woldt started Splash Box Marketing in 2006 in Southern California but three years ago moved to Nevada along with several employees.
“We headed there because, you know, no state tax and business friendly,” Woldt explained. Splash Box Marketing ensures things like monthly newsletters will work with programs that read the websites aloud.
“When a hard of sight individual is navigating a website or a document that they’ve downloaded from a website, they are using a screen reader and what we do is we go behind the scenes and we do the programming to tell that screen reader how to read that document,” Woldt reported.
It’s federal law that government websites must be accessible for millions of Americans who are hard of sight, but Woldt says the money for their services is now gone.
“We would go to run these credit cards for jobs that we had finished and they were getting rejected because they had been frozen and so this caused a lot of panic, as you can imagine with the USDA and the National Parks as they were trying to run their credit cards and so they started calling around, began to find out that a lot of the upper level management had all been fired and so they didn’t know who to turn…all of their spending power had been cut off,” Woldt recounted.
It’s a huge loss for the small company. Government contracts account for about 40 percent of their business. The federal government is the last client they thought wouldn’t be paying their bill.
“Right now, we probably have about $40,000 to $50,000 sitting out there in jobs that we’ve done, we’re done and we’re not going to get paid for. Don’t know when we’re going to get paid for…I really hate to start letting people go. The hope is that maybe this will turn around in a month or two,” Woldt shared.
The small business is still evaluating options on how to get paid and is reaching out to Small Business Administration and Nevada’s reps. The CEO is also hitting the phones reaching out to businesses in the private sector to try and make up for the lost government contracts.
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