Trade pact backers hit 2 big hurdles: Donald and Hillary
Presidential politics complicate Barack Obama's push to ratify one of the biggest trade deals in history.
11/09/15
Hillary
Clinton and Bernie Sanders are railing against the Trans-Pacific
Partnership in the Democratic primary. On the right, GOP presidential
front-runner Donald Trump is ripping the trade deal as a “disaster”
negotiated by “incompetent people.”
President
Barack Obama’s herculean task of shepherding the landmark Trans-Pacific
Partnership through Capitol Hill is about to run into one major hurdle:
2016 presidential politics.
The
Obama administration already won one hard-fought battle when trade
promotion authority passed in June over opposition from most Democrats.
But the booming anti-trade rhetoric animating the Republican and
Democratic presidential primaries could complicate the path for Congress
to formally approve the trade agreement between the United States and
11 Asia-Pacific nations, officially made public last week.http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/senate-trade-trans-pacific-partnership-obama-215610#ixzz3qztw8CRb
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