Gallego continues to fight back as Trump’s tomato tax takes effect
ARIZONA – Today, the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the 2019 Tomato Suspension Agreement (TSA) takes effect. In response, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) released the following statement:
“Today is a bad day for the thousands of Arizonans whose livelihoods depend on tomato trading and for the millions of Americans who can’t afford to pay more at the grocery store. For years, I’ve been fighting back against the tomato tax – calling out both Democratic and Republican administrations. Unfortunately, the Trump administration hasn’t listened. With Trump’s tomato tax going into effect today, we must continue to highlight the harm this will cause.”
Since 2023, Senator Gallego has been fighting to keep the TSA, authoring an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star entitled Arizona can’t afford a new ‘tomato tax’.
When the Trump administration announced earlier this year it planned to withdraw from the TSA, Senator Gallego immediately wrote to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick laying out the detrimental effect it would have on hardworking families, including putting 33,000 American jobs at risk and raising tomato prices by an average of 50 percent.
7/14/25