1. United States
2. Ind.
3. Letter

The president’s severe tariffs are not a tax on foreign companies—they are a tax on the American people. Consumers, workers, small businesses, and farmers are shouldering the cost, and the ripple effect is already triggering a dangerous global economic downturn. These actions threaten to plunge us into a recession—or worse. We're staring down the barrel of famine, widespread unemployment, shuttered farms and factories, economic collapse in rural communities, and unrest in our cities. Lines at food banks will stretch for miles—if food banks even survive the current funding cuts. And Congress? Congress is doing nothing. If you refuse to exercise your constitutional power to check the executive branch, then you are complicit in what happens next: the bankruptcies, the layoffs, the despair, the disintegration of the middle class. What exactly are you waiting for? What are you afraid of—Elon Musk’s next tweet? Do your job. Protect the American people. Stand up now—or history will remember you for your silence.