Trump's tariffs are creating mounting hardship in rural communities that voted for him, including in Central Washington

Voters in the agricultural communities of Central Washington asked for nothing when they voted for Donald Trump last November — and that’s exactly what they got.

The heartland of our state’s multibillion crop and orchard export economy is in the crosshairs of Trump regime’s trade and tariff policies.

Trump is putting it all together: Immigrant farmworkers without paperwork are being targeted for deportation. High tariffs are being slapped on imports. And retaliatory tariffs are landing on stuff we ship abroad.

“I represent a trade economy: I represent the success of what innovation and trade get you,” Senator Maria Cantwell, D‑Washington, told a bevy of administration officials at a recent Senate Commerce Committee hearing. She pointed to a familiar figure, that two of every five Washington jobs is linked in some form to our export/import economy.

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