REP SUZAN DELBENE: Trump's tariffs are raising prices and American families are suffering

In the twelvemonth since the president’s alleged ‘liberation day,’ American families person paid much than $1,700 and counting successful higher costs arsenic a effect of his tariffs. On apical of the higher prices consumers are paying, tariffs person caused important and lasting harm to American businesses crossed the country.

From trade breweries successful Ohio to innovative, inventor-driven companies successful Minnesota — these reckless tariffs person raised costs, closed disconnected customers and threatened the viability of these businesses themselves.

Farming, a cornerstone of our economy, is acutely suffering. Across America’s heartland, tariffs are jacking up the outgo of businesses for our farmers, with machinery, fertilizer and different input costs each rising with nary alleviation successful sight. Moreover, farmers are losing customers, with losses totaling $34 cardinal and counting.

To beryllium blunt, sanction a portion of our economy, and it’s being wounded by President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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President Donald Trump speaks astir tariffs during a "Make America Wealthy Again" commercialized announcement lawsuit successful the Rose Garden astatine the White House connected April 2, 2025, successful Washington, DC.  (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Make nary mistake: House Republicans are conscionable arsenic liable for this economical catastrophe arsenic the White House is. Instead of doing their occupation and putting a halt to them, House Republicans proceed to rubber-stamp Trump’s shortsighted and reckless policy.

When the Supreme Court ruled galore of the sweeping tariffs to beryllium illegal, alternatively of calling for refunds to Americans who paid these amerciable taxes, legislature Republicans are conscionable sitting idly by portion Trump tries to instrumentality new, price-spiking tariffs!

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It each speaks to a larger connection that Republicans are sending to the American people. They don’t enactment for you. They lone enactment for Trump. 

It’s a tone-deaf connection that volition outgo them the House majority. Affordability volition beryllium a defining contented this election. Everything is excessively expensive, and the nationalist is angry. In the twelvemonth they’ve controlled Washington, Republicans person precocious an docket that has lone raised prices connected moving families.

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Voters person a wide prime earlier them astatine the ballot box: a ballot for Republicans volition mean much tariffs and higher costs, portion a ballot for Democrats volition mean holding Republicans accountable for their breached promises and atrocious economy.  

Democrats person the winning message: we privation to rotation backmost these damaging tariffs, propulsion for policies that promote America’s businesses to grow their home manufacturing footprint, and enactment our farmers by passing common-sense policies to assistance trim costs and grow their marketplace opportunities. Every time betwixt present and the midterms, we look guardant to engaging communities crossed the state astir our forward-looking vision.

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