Klobuchar Blasts Tariffs: It’s the Small Businesses, Small Consumers, Small Farmers that Are Getting ‘Screwed’ By this Right Now

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KLOBUCHAR: “And as I was listening to your description of all the havoc that’s been wrought and the fact that, by the way, the Dow is on target in April to have its worst year since 1932, in the middle of the Great Depression, I kept thinking of the fact that the woman I met in Owatonna named Beth Beinecke, who runs a little company called Busy Baby, that was Minnesota’s small business of the year in 2025, she’s not at that investor conference. She wasn’t invited by JP Morgan. She was not — she didn’t have the phone number of the president, like Tim Cook of Apple did. And I’m — you know, all these people can have their insider information, but her business is going down the tubes because of this, because she relies on imports. Or the soybean farmer who told me that his margins are so slim because of the last thing Donald Trump did that greatly reduced their market. Their business went to — other countries were buying soybeans from Brazil, and now they’re going to lose the last part of it and aren’t going to be able to make it. These are people that aren’t in those Wall Street rooms, and it just goes to show it is a small businesses, it’s the small consumers, it is the small farmers that are just getting completely screwed by this right now. And it is not legal, that’s right, but they are going to be roadkill on the way unless he immediately reverses his policies, as my Democratic colleagues and I have called on him to do."