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With more voices saying clearly that US Chamber of Commerce does not represent them, the Chamber's membership numbers are looking more and more questionable.

The Chamber's tone-deaf response to the situation is contributing to reputation damage that is hurting the organization's credibility.

It turns out that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce only has 300,000 members, not the more than 3 million it claimed to represent just a day ago.

The Chamber has been losing members -- real members out of its actual 300,000 or less total -- at a rate of several each week lately.

If the media briefing late last week was supposed to make things better for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the face of an onslaught of major defections over its climate extremism, it didn't.

One reason for the Chamber's decline may be the result of what the Chamber's positioning communicates to businesses and lawmakers alike.