Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Trump, in a surprising reversal, told a gathering of farm state lawmakers and governors on Thursday morning that he was directing his advisers to look into rejoining the multicountry trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal he pulled out of within days of assuming the presidency.
Rejoining the 11-country pact could be a sharp reversal of fortune for many American industries that stood to benefit from the trade agreement's favorable terms and Republican lawmakers who supported the pact. The deal, which was initiated by the Obama administration, was largely viewed as a tool to prod China into making the type of economic reforms that the United States and others have long wanted.
Both Democrats and Republicans attacked the deal during the president campaign, but many business leaders were disappointed when Mr. Trump withdrew from agreement, arguing that the United States would end up with less favorable terms attempting to broker an array of individual trade pacts and that scrapping the deal would empower China.
Republicans in Congress have also been skeptical of Mr. Trump's tendencies on trade, and 25 Republican senators sent a letter to Mr. Trump urging him to re-engage with the pact "so that the American people can prosper from the tremendous opportunities that these trading partners bring."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 13 2018, @05:24PM (1 child)
I got a better idea. First, remove the Disagree mod. Then, when someone disagrees with a comment they can...wait for it...post a cogent reason for why they disagree with the post they are responding to. Yeah, it means that the drag and drool crowd might find themselves left out of the discussion when they have their Smite button taken away from them. Or, they could just man up and articulate reasons for why they disagree with a comment they read on the intertubes. It could work.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Friday April 13 2018, @05:54PM
No, it means they'll abuse the "Troll" or "Flamebait" moderation options to express "Disagree". Guess why the "Disagree" moderation option (with no effect on the score!) was introduced?
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