President Obama has said that he will try to push the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement through Congress, despite both presidential candidates publicly strongly opposing the trade deal.
Newshub: Obama set for ‘full-fledged’ TPP push
US President Barack Obama is launching “a full-fledged, full-throated effort” to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership mega trade deal through Congress in the final lame duck months of his presidency.
The TPP would be the final landmark piece of Mr Obama’s presidency.
“This will be a full-fledged, full-throated effort,” Mr Obama’s deputy US trade representative, Robert Holleyman, told an event this week at Atlanta’s Commerce Club.
The Atlanta event reflected the huge divide between TPP supporters and critics in the US.
David Abney, the chief executive of the world’s largest package delivery company UPS, talked up what he believed would be the TPP’s ability to cut red tape for US small and mid-sized businesses entering new Asia-Pacific markets.
As Mr Abney spoke, UPS drivers and union representatives supporting them protested outside the Commerce Club.
“We’re opposed to the TPP because we feel like it’s going to undermine American workers’ standard of living,” Teamsters Local 728 political director Eric Robertson told theAtlanta Journal-Constitution.
Mr Obama has put Congress on notice he will be sending a TPP bill their way.
The White House has also organised 30 pro-TPP events to support Democrat and Republican members of Congress who favour the legislation.
It will be difficult for Obama. He hasn’t much time left in his second term, and has to get the TPP through in the ‘lame duck’ period after the election and before he leaves the White House in January.
Blazer
/ 18th August 2016Yes Wall St see it slipping away,and his handlers would have told him to prioritise it.There will be money flying everywhere in the HOR and the Senate.
Pete George
/ 18th August 2016@NewstalkZB
Clinton hires vocal #TPP supporter in key role, raising suspicion her opposition to trade deal isn’t rock solid
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/world/clinton-hired-vocal-tpp-supporter-in-key-role/
Blazer
/ 18th August 2016as any chance Trump has evaporates,the old nag will be on steroids again soon!
Kevin
/ 18th August 2016What dilemma for the Trump-hating TPP-hating Left.
Ugly Truth
/ 18th August 2016What part of “pathological liar” do these people not understand?
Donald Trump (70%, 102,529 Votes)
Gary Johnson (11%, 16,265 Votes)
Jill Stein (10%, 15,305 Votes)
Hillary Clinton (8%, 11,920 Votes)
Darrell Castle (0%, 732 Votes)
Total Voters: 146,751
http://abcnewsgo.co/2016/08/abc-live-poll-who-are-you-voting-for
Blazer
/ 18th August 2016‘He is pro-Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), pro-fracking and pro-Keystone XL pipeline,”…what a fun time its going to be with Hillary and her cohorts at the helm.