LendingTree report found that Trump tariffs amount to a $29 billion tax on consumers for the 2025 holiday shopping season
Atlanta, Ga. — Georgia Democrats are pressing Republicans to reverse Trump’s tariffs as families suffer from higher prices this holiday season.
Today, Georgia’s Democratic Congressional delegation, led by Congressman Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. (GA-04) and U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, urged House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring S.J. Res. 88 to the House floor, which passed the U.S. Senate 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.
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).
A recent report by LendingTree found that Trump tariffs amount to a $29 billion tax on consumers for the 2025 holiday shopping season, and Bloomberg reported that “tariffs on consumer tech product imports could cut US purchasing power by roughly $123 billion and drive average retail prices sharply higher — by more than 30% for smartphones, 34% for laptops and tablets and 69% for video game consoles.”
“As Christmas and the holidays approach, families in Georgia and nationwide are suffering as prices continue to rise from President Trump’s catastrophic trade policies,” Rep. Johnson, Sen. Ossoff, and the Delegation wrote. “We 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.”
Last month, conservative radio host Erick Erickson wrote in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that “Tariffs 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.”
Click here to read the group’s letter.
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