New reporting reveals that in the last year and a half, Dan Sullivan has voted on “five separate occasions” in favor of the price-hiking tariffs driving up costs for the average household by $1,100 per year and harming Alaskans. The reporting comes on the heels of Sullivan refusing to comment on the new 50% tariff proposed on Canadian goods, despite Alaskans facing a cost of living crisis that he created.
“Dan Sullivan’s tariffs are driving up costs for Alaskans,” said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Eric Croft. “Multimillionaire Dan Sullivan has voted five times for the tariffs that are wreaking havoc on our economy, and Alaskans are paying the price — literally. Sullivan is a coward who stays silent and pads his own pockets while Alaskans foot the bill.”
The reporting lays out how tariffs have caused price pain at grocery stores when Alaskans are already paying prices more than 20% higher than the rest of the country, and tariffs have caused school supplies to cost more than they did last year.
The Alaska Independent: Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan repeatedly voted in favor of tariffs
Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has voted over and over again to keep President Donald Trump’s tariffs in place, despite previously criticizing a tariff proposal during Trump’s first term.
In the more than a year and a half since Trump’s return to power, Sullivan has voted on five separate occasions to keep the president’s tariffs on foreign imports.
Research from Yale University’s Budget Lab shows the president”s tariffs are currently costing American families an average of $1,100 per year.
His first vote against ending tariffs took place April 2, 2025: Just hours after Trump announced his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, the Alaska senator voted nay on a resolution ending a state of emergency the president had declared to impose tariffs on Canada. That resolution passed the Republican-controlled Senate 51-49, with some Republicans joining Democrats in voting for it, but never was brought up for a vote in the House of Representatives, which is also controlled by Republicans.
When another resolution came up later that month that aimed to end the state of emergency Trump was using to justify his tariffs globally, Sullivan voted against it as well. The resolution failed 49-49.
On Oct. 28, 2025, Sullivan cast a nay vote on a resolution that would have lifted the state of emergency Trump declared on July 30, 2025, as grounds for tariffs against Brazil. That vote, as with the first one, passed in the Senate with some Republican support, but did not get brought up for a vote in the House.
The next day, Sullivan again voted nay on ending the state of emergency justifying tariffs against Canada, a measure that Republican House leaders again failed to bring to the floor.
And on Oct. 30, Sullivan voted against a resolution that would have ended the national emergency justifying global tariffs. Like the earlier one, it passed with Republican support in the Senate before failing to advance in the House.
Trump’s tariffs have cost consumers $185 billion in higher prices so far in 2026 and $129 billion last year, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. Roughly $166 billion of that money is now being refunded to businesses after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs Trump had imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
The tariffs have hit American consumers in a variety of tangible ways. This back-to-school season, for instance, data shows that the price of a notebook has risen by about $1 since 2025, while lunchboxes cost $5 more than they did last year.
Grocery bills are another place tariffs have caused price pain. Coffee, for example, was about 16% more expensive in July 2026 than it was in April 2025, the month the Trump administration first tariffed the product. The prices have remained elevated even after the White House exempted the product from tariffs in November 2025.
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