President Trump said he hopes Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) supporters back him in the 2020 presidential election against presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden because the two agree that the United States’ trade policy must put American workers before corporate interests.
There are many factors in Bernie Sanders’ defeat in Michigan on Tuesday, but one of them is likely that Sanders could not run on trade policy in 2020 as he did in 2016 — because President Donald Trump took it off the table.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s trade agenda in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary replicates then-candidate Barack Obama’s trade promises in 2008 — promises that ultimately led to the Obama-Biden White House pushing the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal.
The widow of former Sen. John McCain, Cindy McCain, says President Trump’s nationalist-populist Republican Party is “not the party” she and her husband “belonged to.”
Leading 2020 Democrat presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden is declaring himself a “champion” for America’s union workers after tirelessly supporting and defending free trade deals that made it easier for corporations to offshore union workers’ jobs.
Former Vice President Joe Biden released a campaign ad heavily targeting union members on Monday in honor of Labor Day.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka blasted Democrats for their globalist free trade agenda, as 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates have continued to embrace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Two of President Barack Obama’s top communications officials are raising questions over Joe Biden’s political faculties ahead of the second Democrat presidential debate.
During Wednesday’s CNN Democratic debate, 2020 presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden said that he would not rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and that he would renegotiate it. Moderator Dana Bash asked, “Would you or would you not rejoin
Leading Democrat presidential primary candidate Joe Biden said in a 2013 speech that China’s economic dominance is “overwhelmingly” in the United States’ interests.
Asked if he considered himself a free trader, Biden replied, “No, I’m not a free trader. I’m a fair trader.”
Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, reacted to former Vice President Joe Biden’s candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nod, as well. Sanders pointed out the contrasts between him
Beto O’Rourke joined a select group of lawmakers on Air Force One in 2016 as they traveled to Vietnam and Japan to promote the trade deal.
Sanders reversed course on his decades-old protectionist trade policy position, calling for the U.S., China and other countries to develop “an international progressive community that stands for social, economic, racia,l and religious justice for all.”
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer heralded the newly forming U.S.-Mexico trade agreement described as better in every way than NAFTA and setting the rules with the “highest standards” of any agreement for the future.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Indo-Pacific Business Forum on Monday that business engagement and “free and open” trade are major elements of the Trump administration’s strategic vision for the region. Although he mentioned China only in passing, Secretary Pompeo’s remarks included a clear warning to regional powers about the perils of partnering with Beijing.
House Speaker Paul Ryan — who once pushed for the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — attacked President Trump’s fair trade agenda, saying he did not believe “new tariffs” on imported goods is “the solution” to the country’s growing trade imbalance.
The story of Danville is one echoed in countless communities across the country, a gutted middle class left for dead in the wake of sweeping international trade deals in Washington, applauded by liberal economists and a lockstep media portraying such policies as inevitable, ultimately good, and a win for the American consumer–a narrative usually coupled with condescending and disdainful attitudes toward displaced workers for a perceived inability to sprint ahead with the times.
More American manufacturing workers are employed today than at any time in the last ten years in President Trump’s ‘America First’ economy.
President Trump’s reshaping of the GOP from being aligned to the Chamber of Commerce to a party serving the interests of America’s working and middle class is winning over young white American men en masse.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a nationwide campaign against President Trump’s popular tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, the free trade loyalists announced.
The American manufacturing workers at Harley-Davidson are praising President Trump’s newest tariffs on steel and aluminum, blaming the motorcycle company for closing more U.S. factories.
“Unless they offer us a deal that we cannot refuse, I would not go back into TPP,” he said. “We’ll see what happens.”
“While Japan and South Korea would like us to go back into TPP, I don’t like the deal for the United States,” he wrote on Twitter. “Too many contingencies and no way to get out if it doesn’t work.”
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida on Tuesday for two days of meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump clarified his desire to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after telling members of Congress from agricultural states that he would do it.
After Never Trump Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) revealed on Thursday that President Donald Trump is exploring rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said doing so would “be a betrayal of American workers.”
During the 2016 presidential election, President Trump made a populist commitment to American workers that pro-free trade, open borders advocate Hillary Clinton was unwilling to make: Kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement once and for all.
Failed presidential candidate Senator John McCain advised President Donald Trump to rejoin the Trans-Pacific partnership trade deal.
President Donald Trump on Thursday acknowledged how instrumental Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) supporters were in his 2016 victory, saying they were “a big part” of the difference between himself and Hillary Clinton.
