Andy Biggs and David Schweikert’s Forty Percent Price Hike on Tomatoes

Last year, expert economists at ASU warned about the cost-hiking effects that tariffs on Mexico would have on tomato prices, especially in Arizona.

Almost one year later, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidates Andy Biggs and David Schweikert continue to back Washington’s illegal tariff agenda, and Arizonans are paying the price. Tomato prices have consequently risen 40 percent over the last year, a crisis that “is getting harder to ignore.”

When asked, specifically, if he supported the tariffs on Mexico last week, Biggs was clear: “Yeah, I do.” He then doubled down, saying that he would like to “explore [tariffs] more.”

Arizonans paid an extra $2,200 for goods and services because of Biggs and Schweikert’s cost-hiking tariff agenda, according to a recent Joint Economic Committee report. Biggs has called tariffs “a brilliant economic strategy” and argued that the tariffs were “not inflationary,” before claiming that Washington has “tamed inflation.” Schweikert bragged about personally “doing the calculations” with the White House on tariffs and proposed his own new tax instead of offering Arizonans relief. 

Copper State Victory spokesperson Nicholas Simões Machado said:

“From gas to tomatoes, Arizona families are paying more because Andy Biggs and David Schweikert refuse to stand up to Washington’s cost-hiking agenda. Arizonans need leaders, not rubber stamps who will sell out Arizonans just to gain favor with partisan party bosses.” 

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