This Iowa Ag Week, Remember the GOP Gov Field Supports Cost-Raising Tariffs

DES MOINES – This Iowa Agriculture Week, a reminder that Iowa farmers, small businesses, and working families are seeing prices skyrocket and struggling to break even thanks to reckless tariffs that Randy Feenstra, Adam Steen, Zach Lahn, Brad Sherman, and Eddie Andrews support.

From Iowa Democratic Party spokesperson Terra Hernandez:

“As we celebrate Iowa Agriculture Week, Randy Feenstra, Adam Steen, Zach Lahn, Brad Sherman, and Eddie Andrews are spending their time shilling for costly and chaotic tariffs, not fighting for Iowa farmers. Every single Republican running for governor will always put loyalty to their partisan politics first, even when it hurts Iowans.”

The field all supports tariffs that are raising prices and hurting farmers:

• Randy Feenstra voted three times to rubber stamp tariffs that are raising prices on Iowa farmers, cheered on chaotic tariffs, and said “I applaud” Washington’s reckless trade policy.

• Feenstra has also failed to pass a meaningful Farm Bill after three terms in Congress and hasn’t delivered a deal on the nationwide sale of year-round E15, which would give Iowa farmers the certainty they need.

• Adam Steen defended the chaotic trade policy and even lectured struggling Iowa farmers, telling them “to be patient” and “to expand their infrastructure, expand their business” to make up for plummeting profits from tariffs.

• Zach Lahn cheered on cost-raising tariffs and downplayed farmers struggling with high input costs, saying “the tariffs are not the issue.”

• Brad Sherman dismissed and downplayed the harmful impacts of tariffs on Iowa farmers, saying “we all knew that the tariffs would have some ups and downs to it. I’m not too worried about it.”

• Eddie Andrews refused to speak out against the tariffs that are raising prices on hardworking Iowans and undercutting farmers.

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