What Ohioans Are Reading: Ohio Families Are Facing Higher Costs Under Jon Husted
November 12, 2025
Columbus, Ohio — From farmers to small businesses, Ohioans are facing higher costs and lost profits because of Jon Husted’s reckless tariffs. Instead of fighting to lower costs, Husted has doubled down, saying that critics “are wrong” about the tariffs, they “haven’t affected the economy negatively,” and “the policies are working.”
See for yourself:
WYSO: Some Northeast Ohio businesses say continued tariffs may cause them to close
- Federally imposed tariffs are causing such a strain on some local businesses that some say they might have to soon close.
- Owner Ami Rizek said she’s limiting price increases and putting the burden of the tariffs on the business. She said she cut staff and hours, and hasn’t taken home a paycheck for herself in months.
- Rizek said she may have to close the store soon if the tariffs don’t end.
- Stephen Kelbach said the same thing about his two locations of The Spice and Tea Exchange, which are locally-owned shops in Chagrin Falls and Hudson selling specialty items that Kelbach said can’t be made domestically.
TiffinOhio.net: Ohio farmers say Jon Husted-backed tariffs are driving them into the red
- Soybean farmers across Ohio say Sen. Jon Husted’s trade policies are pushing their livelihoods to the brink, with rising costs, collapsing export markets, and mounting frustration in rural communities that once backed him.
- Husted has defended Trump and the GOP’s tariffs as “standing up for American workers” and claimed they “haven’t affected the economy negatively.”
- According to new U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates, soybean farmers will face a net operating loss of about $100 per acre this year, a devastating blow for one of the state’s largest export crops.
- Higher costs for seed, fertilizer, and equipment — combined with steep declines in overseas sales — have turned what was once a stable market into a financial minefield.
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