1. United States
2. Mich.
3. Letter

When the Trump Administration hiked import taxes to the highest levels America has seen since the Great Depression, they made us a lot of promises about how we were being “liberated”, starting a new “golden age.” Anyone who’s been shopping recently can tell you exactly how badly those promises were broken. They told us prices wouldn’t go up. Trumpflation has cost us more than $1,000 per household so far. They told us manufacturing jobs would come back to this nation. We’ve seen more disappear every month. They told us other countries would pay. Instead we’ve taken on 96% of the Trump tariff burden. They told us those foreigners would beg us for deals. Now our closest allies are deliberately strengthening economic ties with China, so they don’t have to rely on doing business with us. The verdict is in, and the critics were right. This is an act of economic self-sabotage that’s made things we need every day harder to afford. Putting an end to it is the easiest way to address inflation imaginable. It is the responsibility of Congress to step in. No more of these ridiculous political games to block votes and pretend there’s nothing you can do. Start by voting yes on Rep. Meeks’ resolutions to terminate the anti-Canada, anti-Mexico, anti-Brazil and global 10% tariffs. It’s time for you to take action to stop this economic wrecking ball from swinging into our country.