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25 GOP senators urge Trump to re-enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership:
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:10 PM Author: Cordovan Crackhouse Selfie lol @ these corporate stooge sellout fucks. it's very clear that AT LEAST half of the "GOP" senators currently in office need to be ousted and replaced.
Senate Republicans call on Trump to re-engage on TPP
More than two dozen Senate Republicans are urging President Trump to re-engage in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.
The 25 GOP lawmakers sent a letter to Trump on Friday saying they support his recent comments that he may consider U.S. participation if the 11-nation Asia-Pacific pact is improved.
“We encourage you to work aggressively to secure reforms that would allow the United States to join the agreement,” the senators wrote.
The Republican letter, which was released on Wednesday, was sent the same day Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross made public two reports on steel and aluminum that provided Trump with several recommendations, including steep tariffs and strict quotas.
“Increased economic engagement with the eleven nations currently in the TPP has the potential to substantially improve the competitiveness of U.S. businesses, support millions of U.S. jobs, increase U.S. exports, increase wages, fully unleash America's energy potential and benefit consumers,” wrote the lawmakers, including Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (Utah), whose panel oversees trade issues.
The letter was sent prior to Trump’s meeting with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the White House later this week, where trade is an expected topic.
Trump withdrew the United States from the TPP agreement shortly after taking office, calling the Obama-era trade deal a “disaster” for the United States.
But more recently Trump seemed open to rejoining the Pacific Rim deal after the 11 remaining nations announced in January that they had reached an agreement on the pact without the United States.
Those nations include Canada and Mexico, which are are a part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), along with Japan, Australia and Malaysia.
“I would do TPP if we were able to make a substantially better deal,” Trump told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“The deal was terrible, the way it was structured was terrible. If we did a substantially better deal, I would be open to TPP,” he said.
Up until those comments in Davos, the White House has consistently expressed interest in forging only bilateral agreements, instead of more comprehensive deals.
Senate Republicans have been especially vocal lately on trade issues, and in a letter ahead of the State of the Union address urged Trump to complete an update of the three-nation NAFTA deal.
In a White House meeting last week, Republicans notably pushed back against Trump’s apparent desire to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports despite warnings from lawmakers that the move for national security concerns could cost U.S. jobs and damage the economy.
Before President Obama left office, advocates for TPP argued that the deal needed ratification because its reach eclipsed economics and would anchor the United States in the rapidly growing Pacific region while providing a buffer against economic powerhouse China.
"TPP can serve as a way to strengthen ties with our allies in the region," counter the influence of China and "increase pressure" on Beijing to make substantive positive economic reforms, the lawmakers wrote.
Plus it would "provide another platform to modernize trade with Canada and Mexico," they wrote.
When antitrade rhetoric dominated the 2016 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) decided to put off any consideration of TPP until after the election.
The senators also vowed to push for confirmation of any trade nominees to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Commerce and other federal agencies.
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the senators who signed the letter:
Steve Daines, Michael Rounds, Roy Blunt, James Lankford, Jeff Flake, John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch, Lindsey Graham, Johnny Isakson, John Barrasso, Cory Gardner, Ben Sasse, Mike Enzi, Jerry Moran, Ron Johnson, Joni Ernst, Charles Grassley, Dan Sullivan, Lisa Murkowski, Todd Young, Pat Roberts, Richard Burr, Roger Wicker, John McCain, and Jim Risch.
https://www.rounds.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021618%20Letter%20to%20POTUS%20on%20TPP1.PDF
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/374847-senate-republicans-call-on-trump-to-re-engage-on-tpp |
Date: February 21st, 2018 5:11 PM Author: stubborn excitant faggotry kitty cat But more recently Trump seemed open to rejoining the Pacific Rim deal after the 11 remaining nations announced in January that they had reached an agreement on the pact without the United States.
So they called his bluff? Whoops. |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:13 PM Author: splenetic ebony library main people This is on par with McCain's amnesty bill a week ago, which was free amnesty for 20 million illegals. Have these fags been asleep since Nov 10, 2016? Have they not been paying attention to the fact that Trump is probably going to exit NAFTA in the next few weeks? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899746&forum_id=2#35454875) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:16 PM Author: hot embarrassed to the bone mad cow disease They still think Trump and his new nationalism is a temporary phenomenon and that we'll go right back to the chamber of commerce free trade, open borders, more consumption GOP when he leaves
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:19 PM Author: stubborn excitant faggotry kitty cat The problem is that trumpism is by and large not ideological. Most Trump supporters support the man not what he purports to stand for on any given day.
You don't have a movement. You have a reality t.v. star that is good at reaching simpletons. That's it..... |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:21 PM Author: vigorous mediation As usual, you misjudge. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899746&forum_id=2#35454936) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:22 PM Author: splenetic ebony library main people You see, if you don't have an ideology, that means you don't stand for anything! (shitlib) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899746&forum_id=2#35454949) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:22 PM Author: splenetic ebony library main people Immigrantion and trade are our core issues and Trump has been very consistent with these (sorry faggit) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899746&forum_id=2#35454943) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:32 PM Author: amber curious temple indirect expression I don't think that's right.
What you mean to say is that TRUMP is not an ideologue, but plenty of his supporters are.
I am a big Trump supporter, but there are some areas where I strongly disagree with him. |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:43 PM Author: Cordovan Crackhouse Selfie a lot of senators are flat-out bought and sold. there are policy lines they cannot pursue due to their sponsorship obligations. they have to be tossed out of congress entirely. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899746&forum_id=2#35455152) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:23 PM Author: sable arrogant jewess gas station I have no problem with the idea of TPP. The countries in China's orbit need an alternative partner and why shouldn't it be the US? I have a problem with the TPP as written though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899746&forum_id=2#35454953) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:30 PM Author: Ruby buck-toothed locale B/c we are a toxic country that should be blotted out? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899746&forum_id=2#35455017) |
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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:32 PM Author: Elite locus therapy let's outsource millions of American jobs just to spite China even though they've shifted focus to Africa and Central America a decade ago! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899746&forum_id=2#35455039) |