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.
Never satisfied...
All you did on CNBC today is confuse more people who barely have a clue as is. Nice job!
Hence his ass needs to be GONE.
_Carja So let’s dig down on Pelosi again. She couldn’t possibly have known this, right?
Strange that owner rights to ‘biologics’ is so important to Toomey that it’s mentioned as its own point while other matters get a rhetorical objection. Who paid for that point? What were the specific ‘concessions’ on other than ‘biologics’? They didn’t seem esp leftist to me.
If he doesn’t like it, vote against it.
Now they are just looking for a reason to break with Trump without being “wrong” about impeachment and Russia...
When has the Republican party ever been in support of the working class? Try never! So i could care less what this Republican rube thinks about the deal. Personally, I don't trust either party. Both sides work for their campaign economic benefactors. Not for the people.
Typical. Republicans worrying that American workers didn’t get f*cked enough in the deal. God forbid, American workers might get a fair shake.
One should remember that Senator Pat Toomey are those who thinks being a conservative means selling your country for a buck. His capital investments in China is more important to him than American workers.
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