California Democrats and Nebraska Republicans are urging Trump to drop the coffee tax

First on fox: Reps. R. Khanna, D-Calif., and Don Bacon, R-Neb.

Coffee prices rose 20.9% from a year ago in August, according to the most recent consumer price index (CPI) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In a letter to Trump on Wednesday, Khanna and Bacon asked Trump to remove coffee from his recall price to bring the prices down to two out of three coffee drinkers every day, according to the National Coffee Association.

“We respectfully request that your administration remove the coffee due to retaliatory measures that greatly increase its price,” Khanna and Bacon said, according to a letter obtained by Fox News Digital. “The administration can do this by adding coffee (both green beans, and roasted and ground products) to ANNEX II for 400, this action is one humble way to help the American people.”

Trump’s “Suberation” tariffs list exempt goods, but coffee is not on the list. Since Trump’s Universal Tariffs seek to increase the international trade playing field, the Congressmen said that coffee has no “effective domestic alternative.”

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“Although Hawaii and Puerto Rico grow a lot of specialty coffee, domestic production accounts for less than a certain percentage of American production.

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99% of coffee is imported from outside the US, according to the National Coffee Association.

“I always have a mug of coffee, so it’s a personal issue for me, and we hope the President sees this as part of his pardon,” Khannation said of his digital media.

Khanna, who represents California’s Silicon Valley in the US House of Representatives, said his constituents are telling him they are worried about taxes affecting the economy.

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“I’ve heard from a lot of small business owners, coffee shops are actually facing real pressures. Some would go out of business if this coffee stayed around.

Khanna said he hopes the name breaks down tariffs on food products, especially food products we don’t grow in the United States. “

More than half of Americans drink coffee every day, including fellow Republican, Bacon, who is retiring to represent Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional district in the US next year.

Khanna and Bacon traveled to Mexico earlier this year for a meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum, who aimed to develop a “constructive approach” to the Center.

The bipartisan duo also came together last month to introduce the “No Coffee tax,” which seeks to repeal the Trump Administration’s tariffs on coffee.

“There is no American alternative to coffee,” Bacon told Fox Digital News. “Why can’t we raise tax rates? Everything you’re doing is punishing the American people.”

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Bacon, one of the few Republicans who have been willing to push back against the Trump Administration’s Searth, introduced the Tax Deregulation Act in Congress earlier.

“I’ve always been honest. I try to be professional, but I’ve kept going back to where I thought there was a lot of concern,” Bacon said. “I want to do the right thing, despite what anyone thinks.”

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The retired Congressman said his areas are feeling the impact of Trump’s tariffs on the economy, especially soybean farmers who have been unable to sell their goods.

“I feel comfortable doing it since I announced it, but I don’t know that I would have done it differently,” Bacon said, explaining that rolling back Trump’s taxes is one of his top priorities as he closes out his last term.

The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.