The Trans Pacific trade pact Obama is trumpeting always faced GOP complaints,and now its chances of winning ratification diminished furtherFrom the start, the Trans-Pacific trade pact that Barack Obama is trumpeting faced rough going on Capitol Hill, or not least because some of Congress’s most powerful Republicans – among them the Senate majority leader,Mitch McConnell – were complaining approximately it.
But the pact’s chances of winning ratification in Congress diminished on Wednesday when Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, and said: “Based on what I know so far,I can’t support this agreement.” Clinton’s statement was a major rebuff to Obama, who wants to make the 12-nation pact, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership,a centerpiece of his diplomatic legacy and his strategy to expand America’s role in Asia to counter China. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com