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Trump Vows to Put CEOs to Work Restoring U.S. Manufacturing
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Trump Vows to Put CEOs to Work Restoring U.S. Manufacturing
Justin Sink and Shannon Pettypiece
?February? ?22?, ?2017? ?6?:?44? ?PM Updated on ?February? ?23?, ?2017? ?11?:?20? ?AM
➞ President summons executives to White House session on economy
➞ Agenda includes taxes, trade, infrastructure, deregulation
U.S. President Donald Trump summoned some of America’s most prominent corporate executives to the White House Thursday and told them he intends to put them to work restoring manufacturing jobs and U.S. dominance in trade.
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Ahead of the meeting, Business Roundtable, the lobbying group for U.S. corporate executives, sent a letter to Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn laying out 16 regulations of top concern to its members. The letter touches on everything from the Affordable Care Act to net neutrality to environmental regulations -- but also hints at CEO concerns about the economic impacts of Trump immigration and trade policy.
Topping the Business Roundtable list is a 2015 move by the Environmental Protection Agency to lower national ambient air quality standards for ground-level ozone, as well as EPA limits on new coal-fired power plants and expanded jurisdiction over state waters. The list also includes overtime regulations; Dodd-Frank provisions including CEO pay ratio disclosure, conflict minerals disclosure rules and margin requirements for uncleared swaps; and employer reporting and tax requirements under the Affordable Care Act.. In addition, the group is seeking expedited export controls and tightening eligibility and increasing exclusions for shareholder proposals.
Justin Sink and Shannon Pettypiece
?February? ?22?, ?2017? ?6?:?44? ?PM Updated on ?February? ?23?, ?2017? ?11?:?20? ?AM
➞ President summons executives to White House session on economy
➞ Agenda includes taxes, trade, infrastructure, deregulation
U.S. President Donald Trump summoned some of America’s most prominent corporate executives to the White House Thursday and told them he intends to put them to work restoring manufacturing jobs and U.S. dominance in trade.
....
Ahead of the meeting, Business Roundtable, the lobbying group for U.S. corporate executives, sent a letter to Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn laying out 16 regulations of top concern to its members. The letter touches on everything from the Affordable Care Act to net neutrality to environmental regulations -- but also hints at CEO concerns about the economic impacts of Trump immigration and trade policy.
Topping the Business Roundtable list is a 2015 move by the Environmental Protection Agency to lower national ambient air quality standards for ground-level ozone, as well as EPA limits on new coal-fired power plants and expanded jurisdiction over state waters. The list also includes overtime regulations; Dodd-Frank provisions including CEO pay ratio disclosure, conflict minerals disclosure rules and margin requirements for uncleared swaps; and employer reporting and tax requirements under the Affordable Care Act.. In addition, the group is seeking expedited export controls and tightening eligibility and increasing exclusions for shareholder proposals.
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The GOP can talk shit about jobs all they want to, but there really haven't been increases in wages since the Bush administration, and we're going backwards on that at an alarming rate, while the pay for CEOs continues to skyrocket. They'll bring back jobs - but those jobs will be with extremely poor working conditions for extremely terrible wages. It's part of our descent into a fourth world kleptocracy where the CEOs make big money and the workers can't even afford rent. 
