What CPA is Doing for You in DC This Week

By Michael Stumo Building upon, and solidifying, our bipartisan gains on trade is crucial right now.  The TPP is dead. Trump and the House Democrats agree on a surprisingly long list of trade issues. The working class voters decided the election, in large part on the trade issue, and Trump won. Dems are reeling from…

Trump Can Get Us the China Deal We Deserve

[Peter Morici | November 12, 2016 |New York Post] To win the presidency, Donald Trump promised to cut taxes, boost energy production, roll back excessive business regulations and much more, but nothing would deliver more punch for growth and jobs than his promise to fix America’s broken trade policy. The economic reasoning behind free trade…

In China-U.S. Trade War, Trump Would Have Weapons

[KEITH BRADSHER | November 11, 2016 |The New York Times] SHANGHAI — As a candidate, Donald J. Trump aimed some of his most blistering words at China, declaring that “we already have a trade war” and suggesting ominously that “we have the power over China, economic power.” As president of the United States, Mr. Trump can use trade — a…

Top Senate Dem: Obama’s Asia-Pacific trade deal is dead

[JORDAIN CARNEY| November 11, 2016 |The Hill] Sen. Charles Schumer is signaling that President Obama’s signature trade agreement won’t clear Congress, roughly two days after Republican Donald Trump — who opposes the deal — won the White House.  A source familiar with the New York Democrat’s remarks said he told the AFL-CIO executive council that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Ky.)…