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Springfield, IL — From tariffs wrecking small businesses to rising inflation, Donald Trump’s failed economic policies have been a complete disaster for Illinois families. As midterms creep closer, businesses suffer, and constituents voice their discontentment, U.S. Representative Darin LaHood (IL-16), finally admits that tariffs hit working families’ wallets the hardest.

“Representative LaHood is finally saying what business owners, Illinois Democrats and economic experts have been yelling for nearly a year–tariffs aren’t good for our economy and certainly not good for the wallets of Illinois families. It’s a shame it took him 11 months and an upcoming midterm election to admit the truth about Trump’s economic policies,” said DPI Chair Lisa Hernandez.

Key excerpts from WMBD: LaHood: ‘An affordable America requires rethinking tariff strategy’

By Cameron Maine

  • “One of the reasons why President Trump got elected was to fix the economy,” said the Dunlap Republican. “I think we have to focus more on that [and] I think, frankly, we can do that by reducing some of our tariffs, particularly tariffs on groceries and a number of our commodities.”

  • ‘Whether it’s the price of lumber or it’s the price of coffee, bananas or ground beef, those things are obviously important to everyday Americans, to my constituents,” he said. “I think pivoting from our current tariff policy can be very helpful to companies like Caterpillar and John Deere that rely on markets and customers around the world.”

LaHood’s change of heart comes after reports of downstate manufacturers Caterpillar and Komatsu losing millions of dollars in business due to federal cuts to clean energy programs in blue states. Additionally, last year, Illinois soybean farmers lost $100 to $200 per acre because Trump’s tariffs have kept the market’s biggest buyer–China–from buying soybeans.

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