Even as Iowa’s farmers and rural communities panic over the impact of President Trump’s trade war, Governor Kim Reynolds is all-in on helping Trump however she can. Just recently, she committed Iowa’s National Guard troops to Trump’s border folly.

“Yet again, we see Governor Reynolds more committed to helping President Trump than helping the Iowans who are hurt by his dangerous agenda. She’s done nothing to protect Iowa farmers from the dangerous Trump Trade War, and she’s even signed on to help him with his foolish border plan.

“Iowans need solutions, and we need a governor who will put us first–not one who is more committed to her party bosses and their extreme agenda than the people of our state,” said Iowa Democratic Party Spokesperson Tess Seger.

Just in case Governor Reynolds is missing the stories for some reason, the Iowa Democratic Party has rounded up rural Iowan’s concerns to bring to her attention:

SIOUX CITY JOURNAL: China’s tariffs on soybeans seen as ‘disastrous’ for Siouxland farm economy
About a month ago, Goss, the Director of the Institute for Economic Inquiry and professor of economics at the Heider College of Business at Creighton University in Omaha, said if President Trump went further with his then proposed and since implemented tariffs on steel and aluminum, the blowback would be swift and brutal for farmers.

“Agriculture is always the first casualty of a trade war,” he said.

DES MOINES REGISTER: China tariffs are ‘worst kind of news’ for Iowa farmers on the edge
China’s growing list of tariffs aimed at U.S. exports could be enough to sink farmers in Iowa and other states as they struggle to survive a five-year downturn, leaders say.

“It’s the worst kind of news we could get,” said John Heisdorffer, a southeast Iowa farmer.

CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE: Top soybean producer Iowa reacts to Chinese tariffs proposal
Iowa, the nation’s second-largest producer of soybeans, woke up Wednesdayto news that China has proposed putting a tariff on one of its key crops.

Less than a day after the Trump administration released a list of $50 billion worth of Chinese goods it planned to put tariffs on, China responded with its own. The Chinese list included proposals to place a 25 percent levy on U.S. imports of soybeans, aircraft, chemicals and more.

“It’s not good for anybody. This is what I would call the nuclear option for both sides,” said Grant Kimberley, director of market development for the Iowa Soybean Association. “This is mutually assured destruction for both countries, going down this road.”

AP: Trump’s call for tariffs creating anxiety in the farm belt
In Sioux County, where swine barns interrupt the vast landscape of corn-stubbled fields, exports of meat, grain and machinery fuel the local economy. And there’s a palpable sense of unease that new Chinese tariffs pushed by President Donald Trump — who received more than 80 percent of the vote here in 2016 — could threaten residents’ livelihood.