Most Republicans are jumping for joy now that the Trump administration has finally clinched a new North American trade deal with House Democrats. Not Sen. Pat Toomey.
Most Republicans are jumping for joy now that the Trump administration has finally clinched a new North American trade deal with House Democrats.The conservative Pennsylvanian lambasted the deal on Tuesday as a potential drag on the economy and a capitulation to Democratic labor demands, becoming by far its most outspoken GOP opponent. Toomey’s criticism comes right as President Donald Trump prepares for an event in Hershey, Pa., on Tuesday night where he’s sure to tout the deal.
Toomey argued the GOP should have passed the deal while it still had control of the House instead of spending months negotiating with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Democratic demands. “It’s clearly moved way to the left, which is why you had a celebratory press conference by all the Democratic leadership in the House. … You have organized labor enthusiastically supporting this,” Toomey said. “When’s the last time they were enthusiastic about a free trade agreement?”Sen. John Cornyn has also raised concerns that U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer may have given “away the store” to Democrats and said on Tuesday that concessions to the AFL-CIO “concerns” him.
Toomey ticked off a litany of ostensible flaws in the agreement: There wouldn’t be adequate time to review it; it expires after 16 years; it increases costs for U.S. consumers; it’s “not going to do anything for economic growth”; and it is “a complete capitulation to Democratic demands on intellectual property for biologics.”Marianne LeVine contributed to this report.
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