Small businesses across the nation have already faced labor shortages and supply chain disruptions, the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate upon private sectors would exacerbate the situation further, according to Karen Harned, the small business legal center director of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). “For months now they’ve been struggling to get enough workers to work at their establishments to help them move product,” Harned told NTD in an interview broadcast Monday, “and the supply chain issues that we’re hearing about are very real for them as well.” Harned explained that small business owners would be affected more severely by supply chain issues, because they can’t buy in large quantities like bigger retailers or bigger restauranteurs. “The pandemic—while it has had impacts in the past—that is not the main driver of that labor shortage right now,” Harned said, adding she doesn’t think the vaccine mandate outweighs the challenges it poses …