Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement after voting to repeal Donald Trump’s reckless, blanket global tariffs that are hurting Nevada small businesses and families. Despite bipartisan support, Senate Republicans blocked the measure.
“President Trump’s reckless policies are raising costs on hardworking families and threatening Nevada small businesses. While I believe targeted tariffs on our adversaries can be a useful tool to protect American jobs and support our national security, these blanket tariffs do the opposite,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “The president is abusing his power to bypass both Congress and common sense. Today, I joined my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in a vote to rein in Donald Trump, and I’ll continue to fight for our businesses and workers.”
This resolution received bipartisan support, and if enacted, it would have terminated the emergency that Trump declared, reversed Trump’s new taxes of 10 percent on all imported goods, and ended his threat of additional tariffs of up to 49 percent on products Americans buy from other countries.
Senator Cortez Masto has continued to push the Trump Administration to address the impacts of Trump’s tariffs on working families and Nevada small businesses. Earlier this month, the Senator wrote a letter to the Administration demanding they provide their plan to mitigate the economic stress caused by the implementation of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and other executive actions. During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Cortez Masto pressed U.S. Trade Representative Greer about the impacts of President Trump’s blanket tariffs on Nevadans, particularly those employed in the tourism and hospitality industry. The Senator introduced the Tariff Transparency Act to require the U.S. International Trade Commission to publicly investigate how Donald Trump’s recent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada will impact the American people.
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