Hillary Clinton’s position on trade has evolved since she served as Secretary of State in the Obama administration, praising Obama’s trade plan 45 times before eventually turning against the president during the Democratic presidential primary.
House Speaker Paul Ryan survived his primary, but his challenger Republican businessman Paul Nehlen did enough damage to him to claim one of the biggest feathers in his cap politics has to offer: He laid waste to the 5,500-plus-page-long Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Curtis Ellis, executive director of the American Jobs Alliance and trade policy adviser to Donald Trump, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
YouTube stars Diamond and Silk endorsed Paul Nehlen in his August 9th primary election against House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Coming on the heels of her pivotal endorsement that helped propel Donald Trump to becoming the Republican nominee, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly is once again entering the 2016 electoral fray. This time the living legend has her 91-year-old sights set on the highly controversial House Speaker Paul Ryan, who leads America’s globalist political sect and is nominally a member of the Republican Party.
President Barack Obama defended his signature trade effort with Asia, explaining that he would continue to fight to pass the legislation, even though his party’s nominee, Hillary Clinton, changed her mind to oppose it.
The Prime Minister of Singapore gave a spirited and detailed defense of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade agreement that cedes sovereignty to the treaty’s administration, at a Tuesday press conference with President Barack Obama at the White House.
House Speaker Paul Ryan received a standing ovation from wealthy donors after denouncing the views of Republican voters, who are skeptical of so-called “free trade” deals.
Kenosha, WI– As new reports indicate that the Koch Brothers are furthering Hillary Clinton’s candidacy by refusing to run negative ads against her, House Speaker Paul Ryan will headline a lavish retreat hosted by the libertarian billionaires and the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce.
Luciana Lopez and Amanda Becker write the following for Reuters: “When it comes to trade policy, Hillary Clinton is taking heat from all sides.”
“No TPP!” has been a popular slogan, in chants and printed signs, at the Democratic National Convention because of broad opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that is heavily favored by President Barack Obama — and also heavily opposed by primary loser Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Dean Baker writes at the Huffington Post writes about the increasing unpopularity of President Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which has united the grassroots of both parties in opposition to it.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told supporters at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night that their “political revolution” had succeeded in forcing the party to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The problem: the Democratic Party’s platform does not specifically oppose the TPP.
Rachel Rothschild writes in Business Insider that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could become a big problem for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Actress and devoted Bernie Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon was spotted holding an anti-Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) sign on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on Monday evening.
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — A protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal broke out on the floor of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Arena on Monday afternoon, in the midst of an address by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) has lost the backing of the California Labor Federation over his decision to back the TPP trade deal.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to fundraise in the San Diego area on Wednesday afternoon. The same evening, Vice President Joe Biden will promote President Barack Obama in Barrio Logan, give an ESPY award in Los Angeles and head for Hawaii.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth in MarketWatch says before new treaties are written, America needs to first hold 34 known countries accountable for intellectual-property theft.
Media and entertainment companies stood to gain the most from passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)– so it is not surprising that the industry’s stock index lost $20 billion in the first two trading days after the UK vote for “Brexit.”
Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s flip-flopping position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is at the center of a new attack ad from the Republican National Committee (RNC) as Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump criticized Clinton for a persistent legacy of troubled trade deals in a Tuesday policy speech.
In his Tuesday economic address, Donald Trump challenged the media to ask Hillary Clinton if she will pledge to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on her first day in office and rule out its passage in any form.
In recent decades, a revisionist history of American trade policy has developed an almost religious status in Washington D.C.
“I think that the temptation in that circumstance is to resort to nativism and nostalgia and the sense that these are things that are now out of control and I want to take control back,” Obama said, referring to free trade critics in both political parties.
“Just as she has betrayed the American worker and trade at every single stage of her career and it will be even worse than the Clinton’s NAFTA deal,” Donald Trump says. “And I never thought it could get worse than that. We will lose jobs. We will lose employment. We will lose taxes. We will lost everything. We will lose our country.”
Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has released a short video in which he urges people to “stand up against” the “frat house rapist” Donald Trump.
Former Navy SEAL Scott Taylor defeated Virginia Republican Rep. Randy Forbes in the June 14 primary, providing Americans and their legislators with more evidence of popular opposition to rigged trade deals and mass immigration.
The Washington Post reports that there are many issues where “Hillary Clinton and Paul Ryan could make a deal.”
A new poll makes clear: Donald Trump can win this election if he keeps hammering on the anvil. That is, hammering with the same hammer, on the same anvil, for the next five months. The anvil, of course, is the basic issue of homeland security, and the hammer is the action needed to keep the country safe.
Kevin L. Kearns, president of the U.S. Business & Industry Council, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the effect of free-trade policies on America’s “Main Street companies.”
A Friday piece in Politico Magazine warns that a Hillary Clinton “fumble on trade” could give Donald Trump wins in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan in a general election contest.
President Barack Obama appeared to receive a warm welcome from the Vietnamese, with hundreds lining the streets to celebrate the American president’s visit. Excluded from the festivities, however, were political dissidents, often silenced in the communist country.
The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – the so-called “free trade” deal between the European Union (EU) and the United States is rocketing up the global agenda with a latest Google Trends result showing that TTIP overtook the Trans-Pacific
A landmark article in the March 26 edition of The Economist, headlined, “The problem with profits,” gets one to thinking about the fundamentals of our economy.
President Obama expressed confidence that his Trans-Pacific Partnership deal will pass Congress after members survive their contentious primaries and the presidential nominees of both parties are sorted out.
Hillary Clinton’s position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal is difficult to follow, if you take her rhetoric seriously. She was a big booster of the deal during her time as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, memorably calling it the “gold standard” of trade agreements.
Shoe-maker New Balance is switching sides to oppose President Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Ford Motor Co. finally confirmed rumors that the Dearborn-based automaker will hire more Mexicans to staff a $1.6 billion expansion of its factory in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Ahead of Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary election, the closure of both the General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin — Speaker Paul Ryan’s hometown — as well as the recent closure of the Oscar Meyer plant in Madison, Wisconsin has put a spotlight on Paul Ryan’s long-standing support for trade globalism.
In recent weeks, there has been increasing discussion about the possibility that House Speaker Paul Ryan could emerge out of a brokered convention as the Republican nominee if the donor class is successful in denying Donald Trump the requisite 1,237
