Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Trump's Tariffs Hurting the Average Community

Siting on top of his hierarchy, Trump and the Republicans don't care how their laws that benefit the rich affect everyone else.

Across the country, contractors working on infrastructure projects have reportedly had to contend with higher costs as a result of steel tariffs imposed by the Trump administration earlier this year.

A project engineer on a new wastewater treatment facility in Utah told the outlet that costs there shot up by roughly $29 million in part because of higher steel costs.

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/419767-trump-administration-tariffs-inflating-costs-of-public-works-projects?fbclid=IwAR3XS4EHfRFYlrBrA0bTg7A0NzWtlhTYnI3mgi-DLAnw6T4zNic7bbpRCqA