‘All of our food and product prices are going to go up’published at 20:12 British Summer Time 10 April
Cai Pigliucci
Reporting from Virginia
Out in picturesque
Leesburg, a historic small town in Virginia, there’s a sense of unease in the
streets.
The rapid changes in
policy have confused many here. “The unsettledness of it all has caused
everybody you deal with to be unsure. There’s just this sense of uncertainty,”
says Steve Ball.
Further down the street,
Julia Misra was potting flowers in front of one of her businesses. “People
are going to be very disappointed at what they’re having to pay,” she
tells me.
She manages a small business of 25 people in the wellness sector, and Misra adds she’s had to watch every dollar carefully.
“This
administration promised that they would be cutting costs instead, all of our
food prices are going to go up, all of our product prices.”
Misra buys
products from China, and while she’d love to buy from the US it financially
doesn’t always make sense for her or her business. She’s worried all of those
purchases will now cost her much more.
“In the end, we’re
a global economy now, and the sooner people get on board and realize that, you
know, the sooner we’re going to be on the right path,” she says.
