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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">AFL-CIO chief praises Trump's trade policies</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">The Hill</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Niv Elis</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">August 1, 2018</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0011W5AnStrCiTaUAHF5jISa1NtNQL-jjHJXc4oxdP5eolIx_wPXjKrY_g6JvwpTTBi0dKLGdxtaBMPLAJkWvWDCRReuYo9QTXlxdamfyvNIo8UiexbZSqPi2rV3Gnq00eDiEw62qWSYajfDvFuxmE38IaZ89esQ5MUtIfJNwD2t0Wa_WjaAE4aL5z89LtXrvaQOyAzKearAT3jjKHK2_HmHw8bgJYkthN7pw479DCQ1Pw=&c=CG53xjZyB3y6nfY-EKb6ouKuBszy7HusZV52j81EGU4uf3hAYEv5VA==&ch=t53o12rXkTuAwVRJwFxNhEIYrO6JoqB62IwttqsIGoQu1u2YouQAcw==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">http://thehill.com/policy/finance/399968-afl-cio-chief-praises-trumps-trade-policies</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka says that President Trump’s tariffs are a step in the right direction, saying he believes they can lead to rewriting the rules of global trade.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">“[Trump] understands that’s what should be done,” Trumka said on Wednesday morning, during an event in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “We reject
the notion that it’s either free trade or protectionism.”</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">He added, however, that Trump's tariffs should be more targeted, saying he didn't he agree with the decision to levy tariffs on Canada.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">The qualified praise of Trump’s controversial trade policies from a labor union federation with deep ties to the Democratic Party is
<b>the latest indicator of how Trump is shifting party politics</b>.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Congressional Republicans have by and large rejected Trump’s approach of imposing steep tariffs on allies and adversaries alike, even introducing legislation that would limit
some of his trade authority.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">But Trumka said that the measures and the retaliatory tariffs imposed by China, Canada, Mexico and the E.U. were ultimately small potatoes.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">“The hysteria about ‘there’s a trade war and the sky is falling’ is simply inaccurate and does a disservice to the country,” he said, adding that tough measures against China
were particularly welcome. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Republicans in Congress derided Trump’s approach of offering $12 billion in aid to farmers affected by the trade showdown as forcing farmers onto welfare, and called for
“trade not aid.” Trumka said that the administration should expand its aid to those affected every sector affected by counter-measures.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Even with farmers suffering, he argued, the country would be better off in the long run if new trade deals resulted.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">“Sometimes what’s good for the country may be bad for Joe and Jane in the short term,” Trumka said. “Even the farmers would say we ought to have fair trade agreements,”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">In the meantime, Trump entered a very public battle with the conservative Koch network, a major source of Republican funding, amid a push by the Koch-backed Americans for
Prosperity against tariffs.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">“The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade,” Trump wrote in a series of Tweets Tuesday.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Trumka said he was in regular touch with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer regarding the U.S. attempt to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
the U.S. free trade deal with Canada and Mexico.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">But despite his support for Trump’s moves to boost trade enforcement and rewrite deals, Trumka remained critical of the president’s other policies.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">He said the Trump administration’s actions to defang labor rights and the government agencies that promote them were bad for America's workers. So were moves to undermine
the Affordable Care Act and pass tax cuts that have yet to significantly boost wages. Trump’s Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh, he continued, had a history of favoring companies over workers.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">“It doesn’t matter, if you’re a worker, and the GDP is 3 percent and unemployment is low if wages are flat, you can’t get healthcare,” Trumka said.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">“Unfortunately, the number of things we’ve had to oppose is greater than the number of things we support. And that’s sad,” he added.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Lighthizer, he noted, had still not adopted most of the union requests for the new NAFTA talks, and the possibility of auto tariffs could affect workers negatively.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Still, he declined to rule out a potential endorsement of Trump in 2020.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">“We will consider endorsing every candidate,” he said.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#36495F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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