Kentucky Governor Grapples With Tariffs, Says 2028 Call Can Wait

The governor of one of America’s most trade-reliant states has a warning for President Donald Trump: Tariffs are hurting the industries he’s trying to revive.

Kentucky’s Andy Beshear, one of a dying breed of red-state Democrats, is in his second-term running a manufacturing powerhouse in the US heartland — which now finds itself at the center of Trump’s policy shifts.

Kentucky bet big on electric cars, only to see the administration kill a key incentive. It’s welcomed major manufacturing investments, only for companies to face tariffs and the threat of immigration raids. And Beshear argues there’s more pain ...