“I’m Counting on Chris”: New Ad Highlights How Pappas is Standing Up to Trump’s Tariffs, War with Iran to Lower Costs for NH Small Businesses

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Today, Congressman Chris Pappas’s campaign for U.S. Senate launched a new TV and digital ad that highlights how Pappas is standing up to Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran and taking on Trump’s tariffs to lower costs for New Hampshire small businesses. 

Watch the ad HERE. 

Pappas is leading efforts in Congress to provide relief to New Hampshire. His Small Business RELIEF Act would exempt New Hampshire small businesses from global baseline and reciprocal tariffs and issue refunds to those that have already been forced to shoulder the costs of Trump’s tariffs. He also championed the CANADA Act, which would protect U.S.-owned small businesses from tariffs imposed on Canada, protecting New Hampshire’s economy and preserving the cross-border commerce that so many Granite State businesses depend on.

Pappas is fighting to rein in Trump’s reckless war in Iran and is leading the fight to provide relief at the pump and lower costs for Granite State families and small businesses by suspending the federal gas tax through the 2026 fiscal year. Pappas also wrote bipartisan legislation to cut taxes for middle class families grappling with high energy costs, which would save households hundreds of dollars a year on energy.

Meanwhile, Pappas’s Trump-backed opponent, former Senator John Sununu, has backed the president’s tariff taxes saying, “I completely understand what [Trump’s] trying to accomplish,” and claiming their economic impact “has been very modest, certainly hasn’t impacted inflation directly in any significant way.” He has also “been defending” and “cheering on” Trump’s war, calling it  “important and critical” and a “success.”

At the same time, Sununu’s “large holdings of stock in food and retail giants,” as well as his investments in Big Oil companies like Exxon Mobil and Shell, have helped him personally profit while Granite Staters and local small businesses struggle to keep up with rising costs.

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