Republican senators are begging Trump to reverse one of his first major economic decisions

[laserhaas]

Source: Business Insider

More than two-dozen Republican senators on Tuesday released a letter they sent to President Donald Trump, requesting the president reengage on talks to join one of the world's largest trade agreements.

The letter, spearheaded by Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, asked Trump to reconsider his decision to pull the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The president signed an executive order to begin the process of removing the US from TPP negotiations on January 23, 2017 - just three days after he took office.

"I would do TPP if we were able to make a substantially better deal," Trump said in an interview with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "The deal was terrible, the way it was structured was terrible. If we did a substantially better deal, I would be open to TPP."

The GOP senators said in their letter that getting back into the deal would be beneficial for the US economy.

Read more: https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.businessinsider.com/trump-reverse-tpp-trade-decision-senators-say-2018-2

[shanny]

1. that does it for me

if the pukes are for it, I'm not

[laserhaas]

2. I know - right!

Something must be wrong....

[SWBTATTReg]

3. And where were these idiots when tRUMP was doing all of this? I know that the ...

democrats weren't too happy about this either, and we got in DU land that other nations etc. were ignoring tRUMP and his stupid antics, and negotiating among themselves (without the US), leaving the US in the dirt. Some good tRUMP did us, eh? Probably cost Americans jobs and higher costs somewhere along the road.

[djacq]

4. The Orange Clown screwed the U.S.

An America First policy does not work on the international stage There has to be compromise.

Watch; China will take the lead.

[secondwind]

5. If I recall, Obama was for the TPP because it would prevent China from getting too powerful in that

region of the world. And it would allow other countries like Indonesia, etc. a seat at the table.

[MBS]

9. which is exactly what has happened.

China has stepped into the void.

[riversedge]

13. Yes, I have read about that. And Trump goes golfing. damn

[C Moon]

6. 'At this point I have to...it's what Putin told me to do.'

[BumRushDaShow]

7. "More than two-dozen Republican senators"

Really? More than 24 of them? Yet they sat silent as Drumpf dismantled everything that Obama tried to put in place... because.... Obama. Even if it was THEIR idea and part of THEIR platform!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. squirrel!

With Obama in office -- obstruct, obstruct, obstruct.
TrumPutin in office -- bow, enable, loot, bow, enable, loot.
Grass roots uprising -- SQUIRREL!

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Yup.

[Fresh_Start]

8. No F'in kidding

many of us knew it was shear stupidity to pull out of TPP.

But the fake populists 'knew' otherwise

[brooklynite]

10. Many "real" populists felt the same way.

I remember many people here complaining that it was a sellout of sovereignty to big corporations.

[Jim Lane]

14. You mean "fake populists" like Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley?

Opposition to the TPP was one of the issues on which they all agreed.

They were joined in their opposition by quite a few of the Democrats in Congress.

[maxrandb]

15. Donnie Short Fingers doesn't even know what the fuck the TPP is

But the media.... and apparently some members of DU... treated his "I'll make a better deal...it was the most horrible deal ever" Bullshit as if it were the wisdom of Solomon.

But yeah... he's a fucking genius