Kathy Hochul on Tariffs: ‘Why Are We Making People Suffer Right Now?’

EXCERPT:

HOCHUL: "Our states, our residents, the people you promised to lower the cost of everything on day one, they’re the collateral damage in this war. And there may be some long-term gain that the president sees, but why are we making people suffer right now? They’ve been through enough: inflation, the pandemic. Our people are hurting. They just want people to give them money back in their pockets. So that’s at odds with what I’m trying to do in New York, which is find a way to get over up to $5,000 in family’s pockets with child tax credits and the largest middle-class tax rate cut in 70 years, and to put money from the inflation rebate — we collected so much money in sales tax because of inflation, I want to put it back in people’s pockets. So contrary to what is happening in Washington, where they don’t seem to care about the people they promised lower prices, because tariffs will drive up prices. We are doing the exact opposite here in New York."