KINGSTON, N.Y. — Thousands of jobs in regional counties are at risk of impact in the wake of the Trump administration’s tariff implementation set to launch Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said on Tuesday.

Schumer, citing figures from a New York Times article, said in a statement that “nearly 8 million Americans work in industries targeted by Trump’s tariffs, including approximately 159,400 in Upstate New York.”

“Tomorrow (Wednesday) Trump says he will begin imposing his destructive sweeping tariffs, and if that happens it will be a gut punch to Upstate NY’s economy,” Schumer said. “Plain and simple, Trump’s tariffs are a tax increase on Upstate New York, a massive new destructive national sales tax for all of America.”

The map laid out by the New York Times shows that the number of jobs that would be tariff-impacted in Ulster County is 2,400; 4,300 in Dutchess, 200 in Greene and 1,000 in Columbia County.

In all of the Hudson Valley, Schumer cited 27,800 jobs impacted because of the tariffs.

Schumer additionally said that the upcoming tariffs could cost families up to $6,500 a year. To reach that figure, Schumer, cited the Yale Budget Lab, saying the tariffs would increase costs for the average American family by up to “$3,400 due to Trump’s threatened ‘reciprocal’ tariffs”; “$2,000 due to tariffs on goods from Canada/Mexico/China” and “$1,100 due to tariffs on goods in the automotive, pharmaceutical, and chip industries.”

As the trade wars launched by U.S. President Donald Trump continue to escalate, all eyes are on Wednesday.

Trump has repeatedly called April 2 “Liberation Day,” with promises to roll out a set of tariffs, or taxes on imports from other countries, that he says will free the U.S. from a reliance on foreign goods. To do this, Trump has said he’ll impose “reciprocal” tariffs to match the duties that other countries charge on U.S. products.

But a lot remains unknown about how these levies will actually be implemented.

“Trump’s tariff war has already created chaos, and the economic uncertainty is causing the stock market to fall, hurting seniors’ retirements, cratering consumer confidence, and jeopardizing the jobs of thousands of New Yorkers,” Schumer said.

U.S. Rep. Pat Ryan, D-Gardiner, who represents the 18th Congressional District, said tariffs will add a further financial burden.

“Farmers, distillers, and small business owners in the Hudson Valley are already getting hammered by the affordability crisis,” Ryan said in an email. “Now Trump wants to make everything 20% more expensive?!”

“Trump claims it’s ‘Liberation Day,’ but for my constituents, it will be the largest single-day tax increase in American history,” Ryan added. “We need to be lowering costs for American families, not taxing them even more.”

U.S. Rep. Josh Riley, D-Ithaca, who represents the 19th Congressional District, said that Trump’s confusing tariff effort is not beneficial to Upstate residents. But Riley said he did not object to more strategic tariffs.

“Upstate New York has been sold out by terrible trade deals that made Wall Street rich by shipping good American jobs overseas,” Riley said in an email Tuesday. “I’ll work with anyone from any party to undo that damage so we can start manufacturing stuff in America again. I support targeted tariffs and strategic investments (like the CHIPS & Science Act) to let American workers compete on a legal playing field, but I oppose sweeping and unpredictable tariffs that hurt our farmers and consumers.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.