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Trump Withdraws US From Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formally withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. Following through on a promise from his presidential campaign, Trump’s withdrawal from the 12-nation Pacific trade agreement was announced on Monday. The president vowed during the campaign to withdraw the US from the TPP, which he argued was harmful to American workers and manufacturing.

Trump Wins The Unions: Teamsters Praise TPP Withdrawal, Labor Chiefs Describe "Incredible" Meeting With Trump

Shortly after Donald Trump made good on one of his core campaign promises on Monday morning by signing an executive order formally withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal, Trump told labor union leaders that he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement "at the appropriate time."

The remarks came at the start of a meeting at the White House with leaders of construction, carpenters, plumbers and sheet metal unions, during which Trump pledged to stop trade deals that harmed American workers. 

Billionaire Dem Donor Thinks His Party Needs A New Message - "No One Votes For Polar Bears"

Billionaire Dem Donor Thinks His Party Needs A New Message - "No One Votes For Polar Bears"

Tom Steyer, the Billionaire founder of the hedge fund Farallon Capital, spent $87mm funding liberal campaigns and ballot measures all across the country in 2016 and got absolutely nothing in return but a Republican-controlled Congress and White House.  Something tells us the 2016 election cycle was one of the worst "investment" ROI's of Steyer's life.

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