Tag: trade policy

  • Tariff Shock: What Rural Families in Missouri Will Pay More For

    August 2025 tariffs will raise prices on cars, copper, groceries, and lumber—and Mark “Awful” Alford voted for them in the 2025 budget bill, against Missourians’ best interest.

    Political illustration titled ‘Tariff Shock’ showing a rural family reacting to rising prices, with a sharp bar graph and silhouettes of goods like a beer bottle and pickup truck, set in a warm, vintage-inspired color palette.
  • Trump Embraces Economic Coercion With Tariffs as a Big Stick

    Trump’s new tariff threats aren’t smart economics—they’re economic bullying. This isn’t how American leadership should act. It’s time we call it what it is: authoritarian behavior disguised as trade policy.

    U.S. President Donald Trump at the 101st