{"id":28973,"date":"2025-12-15T13:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=28973"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:35:05","slug":"georgia-democrats-press-gop-over-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/georgia-democrats-press-gop-over-trump-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Democrats Press GOP Over Trump Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

LendingTree <\/em>report<\/em><\/a> <\/em>found that Trump tariffs amount to a $29 billion tax on consumers for the 2025 holiday shopping season<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlanta, Ga. <\/strong>\u2014 Georgia Democrats are pressing Republicans to reverse Trump\u2019s tariffs as families suffer from higher prices this holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Georgia\u2019s Democratic Congressional delegation, led by Congressman Henry C. \u201cHank\u201d Johnson, Jr. (GA-04) and U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, urged House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> to bring S.J. Res. 88 to the House floor, which passed the U.S. Senate<\/a> this fall in a bipartisan 51-47 vote, to stop the Trump tariffs that are hurting Georgia families. The bipartisan bill would terminate the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Johnson and Sen. Ossoff are joined by Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock and Reps. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02), Nikema Williams (GA-05), Lucy McBath (GA-06), and David Scott (GA-13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent report by LendingTree<\/a> found that Trump tariffs amount to a $29 billion tax on consumers for the 2025 holiday shopping season, and Bloomberg reported<\/a> that \u201ctariffs on consumer tech product imports could cut US purchasing power by roughly $123 billion and drive average retail prices sharply higher \u2014 by more than 30% for smartphones, 34% for laptops and tablets and 69% for video game consoles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs Christmas and the holidays approach, families in Georgia and nationwide are suffering as prices continue to rise from President Trump\u2019s catastrophic trade policies,\u201d Rep. Johnson, Sen. Ossoff, and<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0Delegation wrote.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWe urge you to bring S.J. Res. 88 to the House floor for a vote to stop the incompetent Trump Tariffs and help ease the suffering of our constituents before higher prices ruin the holiday season.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, conservative radio host Erick Erickson wrote<\/a> in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <\/em>that \u201cTariffs really are having an impact. Coffee prices are up. Banana prices are up. As we move from fall harvests into winter, imported fruit and vegetable prices are higher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read the group\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LendingTree report found that Trump tariffs amount to a $29 billion tax on consumers for the 2025 holiday shopping season Atlanta, Ga. \u2014 Georgia Democrats are pressing Republicans to reverse Trump\u2019s tariffs as families suffer from higher prices this holiday season. Today, Georgia\u2019s Democratic Congressional delegation, led by Congressman Henry C. \u201cHank\u201d Johnson, Jr. (GA-04) and U.S. Senator […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28973","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28974,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28973\/revisions\/28974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}