President's Acts Further Isolate America

President's Acts Further Isolate America is one of the newspaper articles in Red Dead Redemption 2.

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COUNTRY PLUNGES INTO THE BLACKEST GLOOM. TARIFF ACTS HURT TRADES, RAISES PRICES.

President Alfred Macalister signed the Tariff Act last week, raising custom duties by an average of 60 per cent. Shopkeepers and traders said the tariffs will surely cause business to close and prices to skyrocket. Imported woolen products now face a 90 per cent rate. The President asserted at the signing that tariffs result in national prosperity.

"We must keep foreign products from our shares. They strip our workers of labor, food from the tables of our families, and only seek to benefit rich titans of industry abroad." he said at the signing. The President's popularity has been waning during his campaign for American isolationism, and especially after a typhoid epidemic ravaged and killed 2,500 troops in military bases across the country under his administration.