<div dir="ltr">Politico Morning Trade<div><br></div><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">WYDEN PUSHES FOR TRADE DEAL VOTES:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></strong><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Senate Finance Committee ranking member<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.2Z4DCAMF7Pq6fUenFyNGNTJibOcoTusa12Jh7uHsl_ypkD7eZeQ0lv09Ro3Es4A8WFVGjY0SJJxqTm0tYqvSSg/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h6/h001.0OtFONVpP07NNTghkOtzeI1tVSMVoCam-Zsrfxp2Sto" target="_blank">Ron Wyden</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(D-Ore.) is calling on the Trump administration to submit any trade deals it negotiates to Congress for a vote — in line with the U.S. Constitution and previous bipartisan practice.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">“I want to reiterate my longstanding position, espoused by both Republicans and Democrats under the last administration, that binding international trade agreements must be approved by Congress,”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.lWesBdxv006jasBZWiiGk9P_ybPe2CGyS-6CLrg5BxZPvQGMwjrcav6he_y4b0PEjkH1VIoZLKOFIauBctrxIJPArVz2GFCbtIsZyNnUUOZbks0f_G8JIXlNowFHxDEc/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h7/h001.uM_f62krF2IbP-_ankRTxazZQMFfteKcXYFLqQQx_Zc" target="_blank">Wyden said in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>dated Wednesday and provided first to Morning Trade. “The process for approving and implementing any such agreements must respect Congress’s constitutional authority over trade and power to write U.S. law.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Wyden joined with 20 other senators — both Republicans and Democrats — to send a similar letter in December 2022 to then-President Joe Biden, demanding that he submit his signature trade initiative, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, to Congress for a vote.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">This time, Wyden is the lone signature after Senate Finance Chair<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.2Z4DCAMF7Pq6fUenFyNGNTJibOcoTusa12Jh7uHsl_ypkD7eZeQ0lv09Ro3Es4A8p0SsHab5Lo9P9wBMPjUKAQ/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h8/h001.IoKZIvC-PwThvp_Cc5yZ9zsqd52Phw03YQ9L0k8Vwyo" target="_blank">Mike Crapo</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(R-Idaho) and several other Republicans —<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.2Z4DCAMF7Pq6fUenFyNGNTJibOcoTusa12Jh7uHsl_ypkD7eZeQ0lv09Ro3Es4A8MlthlrWjYaHj2lqPJzoR-w/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h9/h001.MUa2lfRLeIKWWTfR4vh5VuMvbzN7O9tYal740fBGFAw" target="_blank">Chuck Grassley</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Iowa),<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.2Z4DCAMF7Pq6fUenFyNGNTJibOcoTusa12Jh7uHsl_ypkD7eZeQ0lv09Ro3Es4A8M903RORQ7Ehs447oZtYLVw/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h10/h001.dqGa3k5PgRm61cM6ft5jbGquE0_RXtKxu-OrO9ORdDI" target="_blank">Steve Daines</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Mont.) and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.2Z4DCAMF7Pq6fUenFyNGNTJibOcoTusa12Jh7uHsl_ypkD7eZeQ0lv09Ro3Es4A8vTn7JXtzZyTb1U3kwQgO1A/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h11/h001.ld3O8dT5qjmP7RVfgV5nLxhCSqNRp2PNmkxyAThT6Zw" target="_blank">Todd Young</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Ind.) — did not respond to requests for their participation, even though they signed the December 2022 letter, said Wyden spokesperson Keith Chu.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Biden ultimately completed work on three fairly non-controversial pillars of the IPEF agreement but did not submit any of those to Congress for approval. However, Congress<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.lWesBdxv006jasBZWiiGk9P_ybPe2CGyS-6CLrg5BxYWkXV4TejjmX9mNkoHKTH4iqtKPHkq9gHQdmPa-LWKsZfprTkx-2W_S_79h4JLkyMdV2-KluX211NoNP490duV5574vKThK7-fbz8MSl_99XS5l5eevmKBvf85ZEYErPKb8xcRYUSaIjK-KZ_UKnuH/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h12/h001.dlnFzXWzx7_CnP-Ih6D4iqDpqu1euI90WRKOX2XJME4" target="_blank">asserted its authority over trade in the summer of 2023</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>by approving the first phase of a trade agreement that the Biden administration negotiated with Taiwan.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">At the time, Crapo said<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.6g0Zd3AyneOViJYBXgbV6_sZgJFaSQXbzDVVCP-6P__WA8KW8O6jnWNhgxcjJBTfg0o3ePRjigkeHcAAG-s2d0DHpBoUbeCDPO4FGn2ok3mTv_I7WK6XjWACFvKS_0fAlht1UA0k6z8jrRuDE8hY9vPzF68stIS6-iyEyPwfwWBw0CICtx9Vkm82IzI3S0NzpUXL-H74KJzzVpZRwWU9_CszMO9_lBJg8M_tsLRvOtw/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h13/h001.fshkUXKbkGfJkz0Ppmp2Utc8GORaJSL78ilV8f1pVm4" target="_blank">in a bipartisan statement with other congressional trade leaders</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>that the Taiwan bill “proves that Congress can — and will — lead on trade, and that it cannot be bypassed.” House Ways and Means Chair<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.2Z4DCAMF7Pq6fUenFyNGNTJibOcoTusa12Jh7uHsl_ypkD7eZeQ0lv09Ro3Es4A88uXZW9XSYwEjd0KtqpIlZQ/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h14/h001.ACg0yXf_yL3oLZ7DyF-2gOSDa1ymLC_mU1FBMOSYLR8" target="_blank">Jason Smith</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(R-Mo.) also said in June 2023 that future trade agreements should “only [be] established through robust Congressional consultation and a vote of approval.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Crapo’s and Smith’s offices did not respond Tuesday to a question about whether they want Trump to submit trade deals to Congress for approval. The White House and USTR also did not respond when asked if Trump intended to submit any agreements to Congress for a vote.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.25in;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Greer, in response to<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url8086.email.politicopro.com/ss/c/u001.6g0Zd3AyneOViJYBXgbV6wUoA_oOLwNGpMhiJUoRwjjk5yNdKvLvn2FI5YTejbjc9kKL4F-RE7GNIcpfnQyHz95Pqgzrczqp_5T8pxda8JcGft1Rg6OPVy0lKShD6rDMsWrm75Via3Bt5DuT5pPRGDkOx7h4GDk-26Fgx_4b9cs/4hu/yopK92ykRECcxluzk9jiKA/h15/h001.MeQO3sR3JTACbeB7zVJ1kzfL2hHah0ObMMTgxrU3sQc" target="_blank">written questions during his confirmation process</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>earlier this year, refused to commit to submitting trade deals to Congress for approval.</span></p></div></div>