Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin

Yeah. Well, Michigan, I think, is like uniquely positioned to be extremely vulnerable to these tariffs. One, because our manufacturing sector and how we've been working for a long time to build our supply chains with Canada, our neighbor, and then also our farming industry, right, who gets all the retaliation. What we're seeing right now is like peak uncertainty.

Yeah. Well, Michigan, I think, is like uniquely positioned to be extremely vulnerable to these tariffs. One, because our manufacturing sector and how we've been working for a long time to build our supply chains with Canada, our neighbor, and then also our farming industry, right, who gets all the retaliation. What we're seeing right now is like peak uncertainty.

People are just feeling like COVID times, like I don't know what to do. Do I invest? Do I not invest? Do I build that factory? Do I not build that factory? Do I expand? Do I make those orders? And right now, the first sort of like tip off we're seeing is cut down in like orders. So trucking is down, right? The number of hours our truck drivers are driving are going down.

People are just feeling like COVID times, like I don't know what to do. Do I invest? Do I not invest? Do I build that factory? Do I not build that factory? Do I expand? Do I make those orders? And right now, the first sort of like tip off we're seeing is cut down in like orders. So trucking is down, right? The number of hours our truck drivers are driving are going down.

And I think that's just the start of this. And, you know, if you're lucky enough to be a bigger business, you can go cut a deal with the White House.

And I think that's just the start of this. And, you know, if you're lucky enough to be a bigger business, you can go cut a deal with the White House.

He's created this unbelievable marketplace of like every country has to come to me, every industry. But if you're the small guy, the small business owner, the guy who owns a supermarket in my town, no one's cutting him a deal. And he's at risk of going under. So he's slow rolling us into a recession.

He's created this unbelievable marketplace of like every country has to come to me, every industry. But if you're the small guy, the small business owner, the guy who owns a supermarket in my town, no one's cutting him a deal. And he's at risk of going under. So he's slow rolling us into a recession.

And we need to be clear about that because he promised he was going to put more money in people's pockets. It's the opposite. It's the opposite.

And we need to be clear about that because he promised he was going to put more money in people's pockets. It's the opposite. It's the opposite.

I think I would let them speak for themselves, but I think they're either going to be really right or really wrong.

I think I would let them speak for themselves, but I think they're either going to be really right or really wrong.

And I just don't have faith that there's some Wizard of Oz behind Donald Trump coming up with a grand plan that's going to make this all work. All I see every day is people are paying more for goods. Yeah. No plan on housing. More for energy. I mean, more, more, more, more, more.

And I just don't have faith that there's some Wizard of Oz behind Donald Trump coming up with a grand plan that's going to make this all work. All I see every day is people are paying more for goods. Yeah. No plan on housing. More for energy. I mean, more, more, more, more, more.

So if you're the guy who said you were going to actually bring money into their pockets, instead he's making you pay in every part of your life.

So if you're the guy who said you were going to actually bring money into their pockets, instead he's making you pay in every part of your life.

It's weird to clap for that, by the way.

It's weird to clap for that, by the way.

Yeah. I think, look, I think part of what I worked on in this kind of war plan is if you're an activated person and you want to do something, do one of two things. Either go deep, particularly on an issue of democracy and corruption, because every single day he is threatening our democracy and he is like milking the cow of America as like a full time job. Right.

Yeah. I think, look, I think part of what I worked on in this kind of war plan is if you're an activated person and you want to do something, do one of two things. Either go deep, particularly on an issue of democracy and corruption, because every single day he is threatening our democracy and he is like milking the cow of America as like a full time job. Right.