Political Quotes

“for more than a year now, working Members and families have been forced to pay the price for Donald Trump's illegal tariffs. Let's call them what they are. Blanket tariffs are blanket taxes. They are taxes that the American people have paid. What did Donald Trump tax when he imposed these sweeping, unlawful tariffs? He taxed your groceries. He taxed your baby formula and your strollers. He taxed the inventory sitting on the shelves of small businesses that are just trying to survive. In my home State of Nevada, families have paid nearly $1,800 more in the last year because of these unlawful taxes. That is a rent payment, childcare, a car repair, and it is groceries for families that are already struggling to get by. My district has seen the real-world consequences. A neighborhood cupcake shop, a local brewery, coffee roasters who built their dream from the ground up were all forced to shutter their doors this past year directly because their costs have skyrocketed and their customers can no longer afford these high prices. Now the Supreme Court has spoken. The emergency authority used to justify these tariffs--taxes that Americans have paid--did not authorize this mess. In simple terms: This administration did not have the power to do it, and yet, they did. Billions of dollars were illegally taken--in my view, stolen--from the American people.”