Did Gabe Evans Just Get Caught In Another Lie?

Gabe Evans has a complicated relationship with the truth.

• After casting the deciding vote to enact the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, Evans had the audacity to falsely state that “Medicaid is not being cut.” (The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office disagrees.)
• Despite his own promises to protect clean energy manufacturing, Evans admitted he voted to “jeopardize” projects across his district that have created thousands of good-paying clean energy jobs.
• Evans regularly touts himself as a rancher who can relate to beef producers who are “feeding the world” – even though he only raised “two or three cows a year” before coming to Congress.

Now, new reporting casts doubt on Evans’ dubious claims that he’s “sat down with” local farmers who are concerned about unfair trade practices that would be solved by Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs.

The story comes after multiple small business owners – including one previously spotlighted by Evans in a constituent newsletter – have spoken out about how dangerous Trump’s sweeping tariffs are for local economies in Colorado.

In case you missed it…

• After citing comments from local farmers to bolster his arguments in favor of the Trump administration’s tariffs, a Colorado congressman would not provide any further information about the farmers he was referring to. 
• Economic and agricultural experts continue to argue that Trump’s tariffs are broadly detrimental to farmers.
• During an April constituent phone conversation, Evans said that Colorado farmers had spoken with him about what they called unfair trade practices that they say hurt businesses in potato farming and beef production in particular.
• Evans’ office did not respond to multiple requests to connect the Colorado Times Recorder to local farmers, who he said expressed concerns about trade practices that put American farmers at a disadvantage.
• Hickenlooper said, “If [Evans] can introduce me to the farmer or agricultural producer who is concerned about these trade practices, I would love to see it. I haven’t heard that from the farmers and ranchers I’ve talked to. They’re worried they’re going to lose markets because of the tariffs.”
• The top agricultural export in Colorado is beef and veal… U.S. beef exports could decline by 77% in the short run from the fallout of high tariffs as U.S. beef becomes less competitive with other suppliers.
• Economists have also told CTR that the impact on agriculture can’t be considered within a bubble. The greater harm to the U.S. economy from the trade war may affect farmers in myriad other ways.

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