West Seattle Blog… | Video: tariffs = 'Baby Tax', US Senator Murray and County Executive Braddock Warn at White Center Event

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West Seattle Blog Editor

In a white center warehouse full of baby and children's equipment from diapers over car seats, two chosen officials and others gathered this morning to decrypt the president's tariffs as “Trump's baby tax”.

Westside babyWarehouse Hub was the backdrop for the US Senator Patty Murray and King County Executive Shannon Braddock (A former board member of the WS -Babys), among other things, to warn of the budgets of young families of the bite tariffs.

“The baby tax is not only expensive, but dangerous,” warned Sen. Murray, who was chosen 33 years ago as a “mother in tennis shoes” (and wore this kind of footwear for this occasion, as did Braddock).

She demanded everyone and everyone concerned the congress, to withdraw his power over tariffs, which she said that it was not something that should be the presidential stock.

Braddock noticed the recent comment by the President that the tariff costs could possibly mean that a child received “2 dolls instead of 30”, and found that many families could not afford gifts. “Workers' families should not be collateral damage in a trade war. We need a federal government that works for us against us.” Here is the whole how you and sen. Murray opened the briefing:

Allie Lindsay JohnsonWith her second year as Executive Director of WS Baby, the non -profit organization, which supports tens of thousands of families, already has many brands that increase their prizes. But “car seats, strollers, children's beds are not luxury, they are absolute necessities.”

But Senator Murray found in her opening speeches that most of them were made in China and are currently faced with a 145% tariff ordered by the President. Lindsay Johnson suggested that at least “tariff exceptions” should be considered for such objects.

One of the speakers was also a Ballard shop owner who said their suppliers tried to keep the larger prices for as long as possible, but do not stop much longer, and a mother of four four -trains at the age of 14, which she held and said, wanted to speak: “Because if not me, who?”

In the questions and answers, we asked Lindsay Johnson for more details about what Westside baby has noticed so far. It appointed several manufacturers/suppliers. We and another reporter also asked Sen. Murray for details of what the congress could do and what people could do to express their opinion:

After that, we also asked Lindsay Johnson about other financial difficulties that they were faced with or were expected to be exposed due to changes in DC.

In the meantime, this is the cross -party law to which Senator Murray from the Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley From iowa.