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Who even wants this shyt? Where is his mandate for this?
President Obama aims to push TPP before January
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Who even wants this shyt? Where is his mandate for this?
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like a lizard eating itself. democrats refuse to learn. republicans will undoubtedly back it as well.
I can't believe I'm about to type the following words
We may have to hope for President Trump's veto to stop this atrocity.
I need a shower after that
That's the theory you came up with? Perhaps you should think in it for more than 2 seconds
No one wants it on either side. I suppose Barry could just really like the deal but hes damn near the only one.
Futuristic Eskimo
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No one is willing to come out and say they are for it is more accurate. Its a political lightening rod at the moment. I guarantee you if the atmosphere was different, this would have easily gone through with support from both aisles.
No one is going to get on a sinking boat right now, though.
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Jesus Christ.
This is what we get for nurturing the Republican-lite Party for so long.
This is what we get for nurturing the Republican-lite Party for so long.
I heard the press secretary talking about Obama wanting to pass TPP during the lame duck session this morning. A few hours later they asked Mitch McConnel about it during his press conference and he said the TPP will not pass during the lame duck session.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/10/business/mcconnell-rules-tpp-vote-trump-takes-office/
McConnell rules out TPP vote before Trump takes office
REUTERS
NOV 10, 2016
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday dashed any remaining hopes that President Barack Obama’s signature Pacific-Rim trade deal would come up for a vote before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.
“It’s certainly not going to be brought up this year,” McConnell said of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at a news briefing in Washington.
McConnell said any decisions on the TPP or other future trade agreements would be up to Trump, who would still have the authority for four more years to negotiate “better deals” with expedited approval procedures in Congress.
Trump excoriated TPP on the campaign trail as a “disaster” and “a rape of our country,” tapping into populist anger at globalization, trade and manufacturing job losses that helped propel his candidacy.
In an opinion piece published on Monday, Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Alexander Gray reiterated his opposition to major trade deals.
“Trump will never again sacrifice the U.S. economy on the altar of foreign policy by entering into bad trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement, allowing China into the World Trade Organization, and passing the proposed TPP,” Navarro and Gray wrote in Foreign Policy magazine. “These deals only weaken our manufacturing base and ability to defend ourselves and our allies.”
The Obama administration has been promoting TPP among lawmakers and industry groups in anticipation of a long-shot, post-election vote despite opposition to the deal by Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
While there are many Republican supporters of free trade and TPP in Congress, McConnell and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday they were now focused on laying the groundwork with Trump to pass Republican-focused health care and tax reform legislation next year.
A spokeswoman for Ryan said he had not had a change of heart since he said on a radio talk show in October that the House would not bring the TPP up for a vote because of problems with several provisions and insufficient support in the House.
McConnell said his priorities for the post-election “lame-duck” session were passing a government funding extension and medical innovation legislation.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest was still trying to sell the TPP agreement in a news briefing on Wednesday.
“President Obama does continue to believe that this is the best opportunity that the Congress has to take advantage of the benefits of a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that cuts taxes, 18,000 taxes, that other countries impose on American products,” Earnest told reporters. “We’ve got a strong case to make.”
But the strong vote for Trump in industrial states made it unlikely Republicans would be willing to go against him on trade policy, analysts said.
“It’s fair to say that TPP is now in the dustbin of history,” said Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a pro-trade think tank in Washington. “I don’t see a path forward for the United States to join.”
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/10/business/mcconnell-rules-tpp-vote-trump-takes-office/
McConnell rules out TPP vote before Trump takes office
REUTERS
NOV 10, 2016
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday dashed any remaining hopes that President Barack Obama’s signature Pacific-Rim trade deal would come up for a vote before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.
“It’s certainly not going to be brought up this year,” McConnell said of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at a news briefing in Washington.
McConnell said any decisions on the TPP or other future trade agreements would be up to Trump, who would still have the authority for four more years to negotiate “better deals” with expedited approval procedures in Congress.
Trump excoriated TPP on the campaign trail as a “disaster” and “a rape of our country,” tapping into populist anger at globalization, trade and manufacturing job losses that helped propel his candidacy.
In an opinion piece published on Monday, Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Alexander Gray reiterated his opposition to major trade deals.
“Trump will never again sacrifice the U.S. economy on the altar of foreign policy by entering into bad trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement, allowing China into the World Trade Organization, and passing the proposed TPP,” Navarro and Gray wrote in Foreign Policy magazine. “These deals only weaken our manufacturing base and ability to defend ourselves and our allies.”
The Obama administration has been promoting TPP among lawmakers and industry groups in anticipation of a long-shot, post-election vote despite opposition to the deal by Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
While there are many Republican supporters of free trade and TPP in Congress, McConnell and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday they were now focused on laying the groundwork with Trump to pass Republican-focused health care and tax reform legislation next year.
A spokeswoman for Ryan said he had not had a change of heart since he said on a radio talk show in October that the House would not bring the TPP up for a vote because of problems with several provisions and insufficient support in the House.
McConnell said his priorities for the post-election “lame-duck” session were passing a government funding extension and medical innovation legislation.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest was still trying to sell the TPP agreement in a news briefing on Wednesday.
“President Obama does continue to believe that this is the best opportunity that the Congress has to take advantage of the benefits of a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that cuts taxes, 18,000 taxes, that other countries impose on American products,” Earnest told reporters. “We’ve got a strong case to make.”
But the strong vote for Trump in industrial states made it unlikely Republicans would be willing to go against him on trade policy, analysts said.
“It’s fair to say that TPP is now in the dustbin of history,” said Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a pro-trade think tank in Washington. “I don’t see a path forward for the United States to join.”
I mean...at the very least try to "push" the criminal justice reform legislation through that had bipartisan support from Ted Cruz and Rand Paul of all people. That bill would be too little too late for Black people but at least its better than TPP.
Or anything domestic related. I guess even now when his back is against the wall he is scared to change marijuana from a schedule 1 drug to a schedule 4 drug
If you know its too late to do executive orders right now anyway because Trump is gonna reverse them, then at least announce some initiatives you think will help people. He is just so backwards man.
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I love you, you know.
Im for it...but, nah Breh just let it die.
No point. It would be wasted effort at best and narrative-driving ammo for repubs at worst.
It's over.
No point. It would be wasted effort at best and narrative-driving ammo for repubs at worst.
It's over.
This is the shot he takes with his last bullet...a wall street stooge to the bitter end
So out of touch and tone deaf
All these people voted Don in because they want their jobs back and this goofy nikka still trying to send them overseas until he can't anymore
waltthizzney
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but hes a cool guy!!! #trumpset
