[ADAM BEHSUDI and NANCY COOK | November 10, 2016 |Politico] President-elect Donald Trump plans to move quickly to fulfill some of his most controversial campaign promises related to what he derided as “job-killing” trade policies, according to an internal transition team document shared with POLITICO. Within the first 100 days, his administration will drop out of the…
[ GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI and MADELINE CONWAY | November 10, 2016 |Politico] With Hillary Clinton cast aside as the torchbearer for the Democratic Party, Elizabeth Warren is trying to pick up the flame. Clearly aiming to provide Democrats with a path forward in the Donald Trump era, the progressive hero lit into the president-elect with her typical force during…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 14, 2016 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106[email protected] WASHINGTON (November 14, 2016) – National Farmers Union (NFU) extended a congratulatory letter to President-elect Donald J. Trump, outlining opportunities to work together with the new administration on several common ground farm policy issues. “We appreciate the attention that Mr. Trump paid to issues that affect family…
Blurb from BBC World Service: Today we anticipate the deeper economic truths of a Trump presidency. What’s the plan? The President-Elect promises the revival of US heavy industry, stamping out unfair foreign trade deals, generating new jobs for working-class Americans. Opponents and foreign governments fear this could imply trade war. So what kind of economy will…
[Lorri Wallach | November 09, 2016 |Huffington Post] The election of President Donald Trump, and the slew of exit polls showing Americans’ ire over our failed trade policies that fueled that outcome, should dissuade Republican congressional leaders from pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the lame-duck session of Congress that starts next week. We will…
[November 08, 2016 |Mainchi] The ruling coalition has abandoned putting bills related to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement to a vote at a House of Representatives plenary session on Nov. 8 amid opposition party protests over gaffes by the farm minister. The governing bloc is aiming to hold a vote on the bills…
[Ian Fletcher | November 09, 2016 | Huffington Post] Trump won. Well, I guess I’m going to get the trade policy I’ve been fighting for for more than a decade! (About the rest of his agenda, no comment.) His supporters are presumably celebrating right now, so I want to address this to his opponents: Quite frankly, this…
by Michael Stumo The Donald Trump win was a shock to Clinton supporters and apparently a shock to Trump’s own aides. What does his win mean for trade policy and the partisan positioning? Trump and Democrats will not agree on the Supreme Court and many other issues. We are in for a wild ride. But…
[Michael Stumo & Daniel Alpert | November 09, 2016 | The Hill] Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s campaigns both featured opposition to recent trade deals, reflecting a reboot of the fictional view that all trade is win-win. Yet proponents of globalism continue to assert that “free trade” is an overwhelming good. Many wrongly resist exploring why…
[November 04, 2016 |Democracy Corps] Democracy Corps and GQR conducted a national survey for Public Citizen on attitudes towards trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the multi-nation trade agreement that President Obama may be sent to Congress for consideration immediately after the election. The results are challenging for the proponents of the agreement, as the…