Last night, Joe Lombardo said he doesn’t understand how Donald Trump’s illegal tariffs “directly affects Nevada.” This comes after Lombardo said Nevadans needed to “feel a little pain” from Trump’s erratic trade agenda.
Here’s how Trump’s tariffs are directly affecting Nevadans: On Lombardo’s watch, families were illegally taxed $1,700 last year. Now, they are dipping into emergency savings to keep afloat and donating plasma just to pay rent — and while this “pain” is only getting worse, Lombardo said Nevadans don’t deserve a refund.
🚨Since Lombardo is too busy caving to Trump to understand how these illegal tariffs are hurting Nevadans, here’s the breakdown for him:
- Nonpartisan analysis found that consumers bear 95% of the costs of Trump’s tariffs.
- Las Vegas had 7.5% fewer visitors in 2025 with 3.2 million fewer visitors than 2024. Canadian visitors, the largest source of foreign visitors, have decreased by 20%.
- Las Vegas casinos have had to lay off workers following a decline in visitors.
- Nevada businesses had to pay nearly $1 billion in tariff costs over the past year and Nevada small business importers have paid $183,000 in tariff costs.
- The tariffs caused Nevada to downgrade its economic forecast, taking a $173 million hit to revenue projects for the state budget.
- The U.S. has lost 90,000 manufacturing jobs in Trump’s first year in office after he launched his erratic tariffs.
- As tourism plummets, Trump’s unpopular agenda drove an airline out of business, leading 1,000 Las Vegas-area airline workers to lose their jobs.
- Nevada small businesses celebrated after the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs are unconstitutional.
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