In less than 24 hours, because of Tariff Trump's recent orders, we the people may have to start paying 25% more for goods from Mexico and Canada (from vehicles and auto parts to fruits, cooking oil, and meat), and 10% more for goods from China (just read the labels on any number of everyday items sold in retail stores). I wondered if we the people could use the language Trump understands and sue him for fraud over his promises to cut costs for Americans who so badly need that. But nope. Because while he talked about cutting costs out of one side of his mouth he talked tariffs out of the other (but he never said that we the people, not the countries the goods come from, pay the costs of those tariffs).

So now, we the people are all stuck lying in the bed that just under half of the voters in the presidential election made for all of us. Trump has said the tariffs will lead companies here to produce more at home. That's great! How and when will that happen? And he said that there "could be some temporary short-term disruption" but that people "will understand."

I don't understand. How does it serve "we the people" to put orders in place that break the promise to cut costs without first making sure costs will go down within our borders? Right now, how is this serving anything but Trump's never-ending hunger to be The Big Man and hang out with the billionaire bros?

Janice Fleuriel

Buckland