Pascrell Blasts So-Called China Trade Agreement

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, reacted harshly to claims by the Trump White House that it had come to a tentative trade agreement with the Chinese government.

“This trade agreement made between the United States and the China must be a dead letter,” said Rep. Pascrell, a longtime critic of Trump’s trade policies. “The chaos of Trump’s trade war has battered Americans so badly that the Trump administration resorted to full-blown socialist payoffs to farmers to curry electoral favor. Now Trump is rushing to consummate some deal, any deal, so he can run away from the catastrophic mess he alone created. By the terms we’ve seen, America is getting taken to the cleaners one more time. You need a microscope to find what U.S. goals this flimflam achieves. And it is farcical to imply China will make further concession in a second phase. Trump may be the most incompetent deal-maker since Napoleon gave us the Louisiana Purchase.”

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