Biggs, Taylor Robson & Schweikert Ignore Arizona Small Businesses “Clobbered” by Tax Hikes They Cheered On

Arizona businesses are being "clobbered" by the tariff tax hikes backed in full by Andy Biggs, Karrin Taylor Robson, and David Schweikert, as small businesses like Chandler-based aluminum manufacturer FALCO are seeing costs rise upwards of 50 percent.

Arizona business leaders have already warned that these tariffs could trigger "recession-level consequences" and eliminate nearly 50,000 jobs statewide—one of the highest relative job losses of any state.

The day after he refused to answer for how these disastrous tariffs are hiking prices on Arizona businesses, Andy Biggs called Trump’s tariffs a “brilliant economic strategy.” Biggs voted twice against efforts to stop these tariff tax hikes alongside David Schweikert, who took personal credit for implementing this toxic economic agenda and boasted about “doing the calculations” on the tariffs with the White House. Karrin Taylor Robson cheered on the president after he first started his trade war, saying, “Keep fighting, Mr. President!” and has never acknowledged the pain they are causing Arizona businesses.

Read more below about an Arizona business that is struggling while Andy Biggs, Karrin Taylor Robson, and David Schweikert do nothing to help them:

AZ Republic: Specialized Chandler aluminum company 'getting clobbered' by Trump tariffs

Lauren De Young

November 6, 2025

• When President Donald Trump first imposed tariffs on aluminum imports in February, Greg Fraley felt an ache. That ache turned into a sharp pain that has left him dipping into company reserve funds to keep his business running.

  
  

• Fraley runs a small aluminum manufacturing plant in south Chandler, one of only a handful in the state. His company, FALCO, makes highly specialized aluminum products for airplanes and the aerospace industry. He supplies companies like Boeing, Cessna and Lockheed Martin.

  
  

• His two biggest expenses are labor and metal. But tariffs imposed on aluminum imports by Trump have created a seven-figure dent in the company's finances based on the metal alone, according to chief manufacturing officer John Hurlburt.

  
  

• "For a company like us, that's the difference between make or break," Hurlburt said.

  
  

• The financial pain Fraley and Hurlburt described isn't unique. The increased tariffs have made it more difficult for manufacturing businesses in Arizona and across the nation to pay the bills, according to economist George Hammond, a research professor at the University of Arizona's Economic and Business Research Center.

  
  

• Fraley, a lifelong Republican who voted for Trump in 2024, started feeling the ache at the beginning of the year when Trump increased tariffs on aluminum imports from 10% to 25% in February. Four months later, Trump doubled it to 50%.

  
  

• In the five months since, import and transportation costs, a markup called the Midwest premium where the tariffs are applied, have skyrocketed 116%, Fraley and Hurlburt said, far beyond anything they could have predicted or prepared for.

  
  

• Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Arizona, also represents parts of Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek and Apache Junction. He did not respond to a request for comment. Nor did Republican Reps. Juan Ciscomani, Eli Crane and David Schweikert.

  
  

• "Why punish so many people in this battle?" Fraley said. "It doesn't make sense."

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