Sabrina Siddiqui
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 28 Aug
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WSJ What’s News · Tariffs’ Messy Reality: The Cost-of-Living Election | Part 1: Ohio · 3 May 2026
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They make brass instruments like trumpets and trombones in East Lake, Ohio, a 20-minute drive from Cleveland.
Katrina's wearing a Conselmer t-shirt under a red cardigan, but the shirt isn't especially important to her.
At the end of June, Kahn-Salmer says all 150 employees at the plant will be terminated.
It's moving much of the operation offshore to China.
Katrina and her colleagues got their notices the same day I spoke with her.
Of course, made in America is the whole point of President Trump's tariffs in his telling.
By making it more expensive to import goods to the United States, the idea is that factories will want to avoid those tariffs by making things here instead of shipping them here.
Critics of the tariffs say they'll just drive up costs for everyone.
But what I found in Ohio is that how companies navigate the new tariff regime depends on their supply chains, their finances, and maybe even their relationships with President Trump.
And whatever companies are feeling, their customers, American consumers and voters, have seen their costs of living go up.
So much so that Democrats from the sidelines in Washington succeeded last year in pushing a new term to describe that economic reality.
Affordability crisis.
I'm Sabrina Siddiqui, and this is What's News Sunday.
Today, and over the next couple of months, we'll be hitting the road to report on the costs of everything from manufacturing to food to housing, and to see what the rising cost of living means for primaries ahead of November's midterm elections, including for the Republicans in control of Congress and the Democrats who are trying to define their identity and see an opportunity to retake the House and maybe even the Senate.
This is The Cost of Living Election, Part 1.
In this episode, we'll look at how President Trump's trade policy is playing out on the ground in Ohio, which holds primary elections this Tuesday.
Then I'll talk to some of my Wall Street Journal colleagues about what the manufacturing sector's challenges mean for hotly contested races in this state, including a Senate race that could affect the balance of power in Washington.
At Conselmer, not everyone agrees with Katrina McEvoy.
Robert Hines, the president of the union at the plant, says tariffs aren't necessarily the problem, even if they didn't save the factory.
Hines works on sousaphones, a massive instrument in the tuba family.
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