Here is a good way for Trump to lose Conservative votes

[Revmitchell]

Sasse and other members of Congress and governors from agriculture states met with the president at the White House to express concerns about higher China tariffs hurting American farmers.

Senators Deb Fisher (R-NE), Pat Roberts (R-KS), and John Hoeven (R-ND), who also attended the meeting, confirmed Trump’s interest in rejoining TPP.


Ben Sasse: Donald Trump Ready to Rejoin TPP and Help American Farmers

 

[InTheLight]

Trump today: "The farmers need to understand that there might be some short term pain, but it's going to be so much better. So much better. In fact it's going to be better all around."

 

[Baptist Believer]

One of the reasons we should have stayed with the TPP is that it was designed to prevent China from dominating the other countries of the Pacific Rim. That would be bad for us, as well as the rest of the Pacific nations.

It seems that the President has finally realized that truth since he is trying to put trade pressure on China. It is a hopeful sign that the President is figuring out that things are not as simple as he previously portrayed them.

 

[carpro]

I believe he has always said he would rejoin TPP when the terms are renotiated. Is that not correct?

 

[carpro]

I believe things have indeed changed.

Ben Sasse: Donald Trump Ready to Rejoin TPP and Help American Farmers


Roberts said he was “very impressed” that Trump instructed both Kudlow and Robert Lighthizer to explore the idea of rejoining TPP.

“That would certainly be good news all throughout farm country,” Roberts said.

Fischer said that the president also discussed the importance of ethanol and the renegotiation of NAFTA with the president.

Hoeven said the meeting with Trump was a “very positive” meeting about opening up more markets to “free” and “fair” trade.

The senators did not have a timeline for the president but appeared confident that the president heard their concerns.

“Clearly it’s a deliberative process, and the president is a guy who likes to blue-sky a lot and entertain a lot of different ideas, but .he multiple times reaffirmed the point that TPP might be easier for us to join now once the TPP 11 is aligned and that we might be the 12th party to those negotiations,” Sasse said.

TPP-11 is the group of Pacific nations who signed a renewed free trade pact after Trump pulled the United States out of TPP

 

[Baptist Believer]

I believe he has always said he would rejoin TPP when the terms are renotiated. Is that not correct?

Candidate Trump did not want to join such a deal, but wanted to make individual deals with each country as he said during this Republican debate:

If you have evidence that he actually just wanted it to be renegotiated, I would love to see it. I would like to have more good things to say about him.

 

[Reynolds]

Sasse and other members of Congress and governors from agriculture states met with the president at the White House to express concerns about higher China tariffs hurting American farmers.

Senators Deb Fisher (R-NE), Pat Roberts (R-KS), and John Hoeven (R-ND), who also attended the meeting, confirmed Trump’s interest in rejoining TPP.


Ben Sasse: Donald Trump Ready to Rejoin TPP and Help American Farmers

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