Bernie Sanders praised Trump for stopping TPP, and said he’d work with Trump on trade.
Other Democrats in Congress are praising Trump’s move, as well.
Note: One of the main campaigners against the TPP (Public Citizen’s Lori Wallach) noted shortly after Trump won the election:
The election of Donald Trump did not kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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But the Obama administration’s relentless push for the TPP did help elect Trump.
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Did we have to get to this to end the era of smug Democratic and Republican political elites scoffing at the notion that trade is a salient political issue — and relentlessly pushing more of the same policies to the detriment of a voting bloc otherwise known as a majority of our fellow Americans?
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