Des Moines Register: Iowa Delegation Votes to Keep Trump Tariffs on Canada in Losing Effort
All Four of Iowa’s Representatives Voted to Keep in Place 25 Percent Tariffs on Imports from Canada
DES MOINES – Iowans woke up this morning to front page news that Ashley Hinson and the entire Iowa GOP congressional delegation voted to keep in place tariffs that are crushing farmers and jacking up prices for Iowa families.
Unlike some of their Republican colleagues in Washington, Ashley Hinson, Randy Feenstra, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, and Zach Nunn were unwilling to buck their party leadership to fight for Iowans who are pleading for financial relief from chaotic tariffs.
With more votes planned on the Trump Administration’s tariffs, this won’t be the last time Iowa’s GOP congressional delegation will be forced to show Iowans if they’re on their side.
Des Moines Register: Iowa delegation votes to keep Trump tariffs on Canada in losing effort
- Iowa’s Republican delegation all voted to back President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canada — but it wasn’t enough to stop a majority of Congress from voting to reverse the president’s signature economic policy.
- Their support for Trump’s tariffs comes despite concern that they are contributing to Iowa’s agriculture struggles. Iowa farm income is projected to be 37% less than 2022, the most recent peak year for earnings, University of Missouri data shows.
- […] the tariffs are “sending the price of fertilizer skyrocketing” because Canada supplies 90 percent of the potash fertilizer imported into the United States.
- For other GOP lawmakers, whose patience for a long-awaited Supreme Court ruling over Trump’s tariff power had run thin, the vote was the culmination of simmering frustration with the White House.
- Democrats are expected to put additional measures on the House floor in the coming days and weeks, attempting to block tariffs on other countries.
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