Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar was in Two Harbors on Monday of last week to talk with City leaders about efforts to revitalize both the downtown area and the Agate Bay Waterfront. Both are important aspects of work that is being done to attract tourists and enhance the city’s business district. Klobuchar stressed the importance of tourism and its role in building the local economy and she commended efforts that are ongoing in the city. She also pointed out that tourism, which is crucial to the state, will suffer as a result of tariffs and noted that there has been an 18% drop in nation wide border crossings from Canada over the past month.
There are numerous problems that tariffs will place on the economies of agricultural states and Klobuchar has co-authored a bill in the Senate to undo Canadian tariffs. When the bill came up for a vote recently, Senate Democrats were joined by four Republican Senators to pass the measure.
Senator Klobuchar has been on a tour of 19 rural Minnesota counties to learn from local officials about their concerns and to talk about efforts that are underway to help undo the damage that current trade policies will have on the people of Minnesota.
