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Obama Won’t Sign TPA Without TAA

By JM Rieger
Posted June 17, 2015 at 7:45pm

By JM Rieger and Steven T. Dennis

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President Barack Obama isn’t going to support a strategy that gives him half a loaf on his trade agenda, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday.With Capitol Hill leaders working on a plan that would split Trade Promotion Authority from Trade Adjustment Assistance, Earnest made clear Obama will demand both. “The only legislative strategy that the president will support is a strategy that results in both TPA and TAA coming to his desk,” he said. Read more.

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