Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership

One of the chief negotiators and public advocates for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been named as President Trump’s new special assistant on international trade, investment, and development for the National Economic Council. Andrew Quinn is a former deputy chief negotiator of the TPP who was named to the National Economic Council on Monday by NEC Director Gary Cohn.

People who own New Balance shoes are burning them in protest after the company threw its support behind President-elect Donald Trump when he won the presidency.

Luciana Lopez and Amanda Becker write the following for Reuters: “When it comes to trade policy, Hillary Clinton is taking heat from all sides.”

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.

The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift stated that there’s “a lot hypocrisy” on trade, including from President Obama, and there’s “suspicion” that Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would “evolve” on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) if she became

Rick Manning of Americans for Limited Government told Breitbart News Daily that National Review’s latest cover story attacking America’s working class communities as places that “deserve to die” is both “fundamentally wrong” and “morally reprehensible.”

Stephen Miller, the senior policy advisor for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, told Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon on Monday that Ohio Governor John Kasich’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement would be “signing the death warrant for Ohio manufacturing.”

With U.S. stocks tanking by over 500 points at one point on January 20, the only good news is the crash would be worse if America had already signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

As Donald Trump called for cracking down on Chinese currency manipulation, other candidates—most notably, Marco Rubio—argued against Trump.

In a televised speech from the Oval Office, President Obama tried to reassure Americans that he was properly handling terrorism and national security in the wake of the attacks in Paris and California.

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina argued that the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) “trap doors” on the environment shows that “extremely complicated, multi-party agreements are not in our interest” on Tuesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Fiorina said passages of TPP that deal with

Ted Cruz told Laura Ingraham Thursday that “Under no circumstances should the TPP be voted on during a lame duck session.”

Florida Senator and GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio stated the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “has to be a good deal” and “There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about any deal that’s negotiated by this administration” and that he hasn’t reviewed

There is growing concern and opposition on Capitol Hill that President Obama’s unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade bill will be voted on during the “lame-duck” session, which will take place once voters have cast their ballots in the November 2016 election.

Marco Rubio—who declared the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be one of three essential “pillars” of a Rubio Presidency—is now taking issue with a Wall Street Journal news report that lists Rubio as supporting the unpopular Obamatrade pact he voted to fast-track.

Former Governor Mike Huckabee blasted President Obama’s negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, insisting that it would actually hurt workers instead of helping them.

“It’s the highest standard trade agreement in history,” Obama wrote in an introduction to the text he posted on Medium. “I know that past trade agreements haven’t always lived up to the hype. That’s what makes this trade agreement so different, and so important.”

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest is wondering how Hillary Clinton could know exactly what is in the Trans-Pacific Trade partnership, since the text hasn’t been released yet. Earnest said that the full text would be published with plenty of time for review before Congress takes a vote on it.

Hillary for America Chairman John Podesta stated that Hillary’s position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has to be put “in the whole context of the Republicans blocking raising the minimum wise, blocking the job training, blocking the right investments for

Columnist Pat Buchanan predicted that the debate on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be after the “early primaries” and the deal “is in real trouble” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Buchanan said, “These are trade deals put together by transnational corporations and

President Obama promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as “the best possible deal for American workers” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody.  This week, after five years of effort with eleven other nations, we reached agreement on a

CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger said Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s position change on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is “pretty damning” on Thursday’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” Host Erin Burnett asked, “According to CNN, Hillary

Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that “as of today, I am not in favor of what I have learned about” the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) n a clip of an interview with “PBS NewsHour” released on

President Obama is warning business leaders and government employees that there would likely be “misinformation” published on his new trade agreement, although he promised to fulfill his vow to post the text publicly for everyone to read.

President Obama praised the almost-complete Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal today, saying the agreement includes strong provisions to protect labor and the environment.

For the first time in his 19-year Senate career, Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions is mulling an endorsement of a GOP primary candidate, saying the party hasn’t “defended [the American people] sufficiently on the world stage.”

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Sen. Marco Rubio called for President Obama to downgrade rather than cancel his planned state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, arguing that it was still important to communicate the interests of the United States.

Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, has opened up another front on which to fight the bureaucrats of the European Union. He has revealed himself to be one of those helping WikiLeaks crowd-source €100,000 for the release of the secretive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) declared TPA’s “entire purpose” is “for Congress to surrender its power to the executive branch” and said TPP was a “nascent European Union” in a speech on the Senate floor Monday. Sessions wondered, “Why do we

Rep. Rene Ellmers insists she suppoorts trade deals, even if she doesn’t understand them. “I will tell you I’m not sure exactly the process, but the fact of the matter is if we don’t have the trade promotion authority, we literally give up our ability to have that oversight and that final say,” she told a radio interviewer.

The op-ed’s authors state that they are already promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) abroad. “In speaking about these agreements, we often use the word ‘values,’” they write. “We promote transparency, public participation, accountability and the rule of law, and we advocate for our host countries to join us in setting the global standard.”

“The president should listen to and work with his allies in Congress, starting with Nancy Pelosi, who had expressed their concerns about the impact that a weak agreement would have on our workers to make sure we get the best strongest deal possible,” Clinton said. “And if we don’t get it, there should be no deal.”

Rep. Palmer (R-AL) requested that a copy of the text be emailed to him for further review and cited that TPP addresses a number of areas which range from immigration, labor, and the environment—issues that he believes that lawmakers should not have limited access on.

“Well part of the leverage is, if I’m in a trade relationship with them, that allows me to raise standards, now they have to start thinking about how quick they’re chopping down their forests and what kinds of standards they need to apply to environmental conservation,” President Obama says.

An anti-Obamatrade group is having a little bit of fun with some House Republicans’ apparent eagerness to give President Obama Congressional authority over U.S. trade policy.

Members of the House and the Senate delivered 2 million petitions to Congress, opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).