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Trade & Tariffs

Taxes on imported goods and trade deals with other countries that affect prices and American jobs.

What This Means

Trade policy is about taxes on imported goods (tariffs) and deals with other countries. It affects prices you pay and which jobs stay in America.

Progressive

Wants mostly free trade that keeps prices low but with protections for workers.

Conservative

Wants tariffs to protect American jobs and factories from cheap foreign competition.

2265
Favors
1580
Opposes
155
Mixed / Neutral
4000
Total
Party Breakdown
2114 officials
99% favors0% mixed1% opposes
1728 officials
10% favors0% mixed90% opposes
158 officials
1% favors98% mixed1% opposes
Where Officials Stand

Officials grouped by where they land on this issue.

Stances are estimated, not sourced to each official’s public record. Treat them as a starting point and check a politician’s own statements before relying on them.

Favors2265

Michael Benedetto
Michael Benedetto
Assembly Member, District 82 · NY

Estimated from democrat party platform

and 1904 others:
Dacia Grayber
Grayber
Smith
Carey
Venicia Considine
Considine
Heather Bauer
Bauer
Sean Dougherty
Sean Dougherty
State Representative · PA

Estimated based on democrat party platform

Sydney Kamlager-Dove
Sydney Kamlager-Dove
U.S. Representative · CA

Supports fair trade with labor and environmental protections.

Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
U.S. Representative · TX

Supports fair trade with worker protections.

and 3 others:
Laura Gillen
Gillen
Steve Cohen
Cohen
Pat Ryan
Ryan

Mixed155

Opposes1580

Jeff Keicher
Jeff Keicher
State Representative, District 70 · IL

Estimated from republican party platform

Jacob D. Banta
Jacob D. Banta
State Representative · PA

Estimated based on republican party platform

and 17 others:
Josh Bashline
Bashline
Andrew S. Chesney
Chesney
Jeremy Shaffer
Shaffer
Joanne Stehr
Stehr
Jill N. Cooper
Cooper
Jon Ossoff
Jon Ossoff
U.S. Senator · GA

Supports free trade with strong enforcement of labor and environmental standards.

John Fetterman
John Fetterman
U.S. Senator · PA

Supports tariffs to protect Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs and has bucked Democratic free-trade orthodoxy.

Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator · MA

Skeptical of traditional free trade deals, insists on strong worker and environmental protections.

Alma Adams
Alma Adams
U.S. Representative · NC

Skeptical of trade deals lacking strong labor and environmental protections.

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