{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-statement-on-trumps-disastrous-tariffs-following-supreme-court-oral-arguments/", "Senator Murray Statement on Trump\u2019s Disastrous Tariffs Following Supreme Court Oral Arguments", "2025-11-05", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "Senate", "WA", "Patty Murray", "M001111", "www.murray.senate.gov", "murray", "https://www.murray.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Last week in bipartisan votes, the Senate passed three separate resolutions to end Trump\u2019s tariffs on nearly every country; Speaker Johnson refuses to allow House vote on ending tariffs\n\nCurrent effective tariff rate is 18 percent\u2014the highest since 1934; Trump\u2019s tariffs could push nearly one million Americans below the poverty line next year\n\n***ICYMI: WATCH & DOWNLOAD:Murray speaks out on Senate floor against Trump tariffs***\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released the following statement on Trump\u2019s tariffs shortly after today\u2019s oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on the legality of President Trump\u2019s steep tariffs on goods from nearly every country:\n\n\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s tariffs have been an unmitigated disaster for small businesses in Washington state who are being forced to raise prices or close their doors, families who are facing higher costs on nearly everything, farmers who are hurting from retaliation in critical export markets\u2014and the list goes on. I\u2019ve traveled across Washington state this year listening to the painful stories of small business owners and families who are being crushed by Trump\u2019s taxes, and whose lives are being upended by this President who doesn\u2019t know the first thing about how trade works. Everyone can see there is no strategy behind Trump\u2019s tariffs\u2014and every American is being forced to pay the price.\n\n\u201cI hope the Supreme Court will recognize the shoddy legal ground these tariffs stand on and rule accordingly, but either way, Republicans should join Democrats and exercise Congress\u2019s constitutional power to end Trump\u2019s tariffs. Last week, we saw a handful of Senate Republicans vote with Democrats to scrap these disastrous tariffs\u2014that\u2019s a start, but we need a lot more Republicans to stand with us. Congress could put a stop to Trump\u2019s tariffs tomorrow if Republicans wanted to\u2014and every American who wants these taxes to end should continue to speak up and make their voices heard.\u201d\n\nLast week, the Senate passed\u2014in three separate bipartisan votes\u2014three Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to end the vast majority of the tariffs President Trump has arbitrarily imposed, which are costing American families thousands of dollars and crushing small businesses across the country. Specifically, the Senate passed resolutions to cancel Trump\u2019s 40 percent tariffs on Brazil, his 35 percent tariffs on Canadian goods, and his across-the-board tariffs on nearly all countries by canceling the emergency declarations that underpin them. In the House, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to hold a vote on ending Trump\u2019s job-killing tariffs.\n\nRight now, the effective tariff rate in the U.S. is 18 percent, which is the highest tariff rate since 1934. Trump\u2019s tariffs have already raised retail prices for families by 5 percent, and this year alone, Trump\u2019s tariffs are expected to cost American households an additional $1,800 on average. A recent analysis from Yale Budget Lab found that Trump\u2019s tariffs will likely increase the number of Americans living in poverty by 875,000 in 2026. Last month, a nonpartisan analysis by the Washington State Office of Financial Management found that if the current Trump tariffs stay in effect for the next four years, they will cost Washington state up to 25,000 jobs\u2014and if Trump\u2019s \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs are fully implemented, they would cost Washington state $2.2 billion and 31,900 jobs over the next four years and significantly drive up the cost of food, clothing, cars, and much more.\n\nWashington state has one of the most trade-dependent economies of any state in the country, with 40 percent of jobs in the state tied to international commerce. In 2024, Washington exported $57.8 billion of goods to the world, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), making Washington state the 9th-largest state exporter of goods last year. Washington state is also the top U.S. producer of apples, blueberries, hops, pears, spearmint oil, and sweet cherries\u2014all of which risk losing vital export markets due to retaliatory tariffs from key trading partners, including Canada.\n\nSenator Murray has been vocal in responding to Trump\u2019s harmful trade war since the very beginning, holding events in every part of Washington state, and hammering the Trump administration for driving up the cost of just about everything through their chaotic and thoughtless trade policies. When Trump first announced new tariffs, Senator Murray brought together leaders across Washington state to discuss how Trump\u2019s trade war threatens Washington state\u2019s economy, and spoke out on the Senate floor against Trump\u2019s chaotic trade war, calling on Republicans in Congress to join Democrats in reasserting Congress\u2019s power over trade. She has held several events across Washington state to hear directly from constituents and small business owners about how Trump\u2019s tariffs are harming them\u2014including in Tacoma, Yakima, Vancouver, Seattle, Skagit County, and Blaine, just across the border from Canada. On August 1st, as Trump hiked \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs on some of our closest trading partners, Senator Murray held another virtual press conference with Washington state businesses to sound the alarm. She held another roundtable with small business owners in Vancouver in September, and last week, Senator Murray slammed Trump for the new port fees hitting ships at West Coast Ports as a result of Trump\u2019s trade war with China.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-statement-on-trumps-disastrous-tariffs-following-supreme-court-oral-arguments/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.6553659699857235, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}