Showing posts with label Trans-Pacific Partnership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trans-Pacific Partnership. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Democratic critics look for Biden to break with Wall Street wing on trade - The Washington Post

When former vice president Joe Biden left government in 2017, most Chinese goods entered the country tariff-free, the U.S. had just negotiated a landmark treaty with 11 Pacific Rim nations, and corporate America largely called the shots on the Democratic Party’s trade policies. After more than three years of President Trump’s “America First” administration, that world is long gone. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/28/biden-trade-2020/

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Standing in Front of Garbage, Trump Recycles Terrible Ideas About Free Trade

Donald Trump launched extensive attacks on free trade, China, and Hillary Clinton during a speech on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, pledging to renegotiate trade deals and repeatedly promising American workers better jobs and more tariff protections.

"Globalization has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very wealthy, but it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache," Trump said. "I want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we declare independence from the elites who've led us to one financial and foreign policy disaster after another."...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/trump-trade-china-brexit-speech


Friday, June 24, 2016

Donald Trump: Says Hillary Clinton "has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book."

Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of trying to delete part of her personal history during a June 22, 2016, speech that focused in part on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Clinton tried to promote the deal as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, but she withdrew her support for the 12-nation pact in October 2015 amid sharp criticism from Democratic primary opponent Bernie Sanders.

In his speech, Donald Trump took credit for getting her to change her mind and accused her of trying to cover up her support....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/23/donald-trump/donald-trump-flubs-claim-hillary-clinton-deleted-h/









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