Clinton joins Democrats against Pacific trade deal

She continued to campaign against it in 2008, when she was a USA senator from New York and was seeking the presidency for the first time. Deportations reached an all-time high of 438,421 in 2013.

Clinton will aim to hold individuals, in addition to institutions, accountable for financial wrongdoing by requiring executives to share the burden of fines levied for wrongdoing and also barring individuals convicted of financial crimes from working in the entire financial industry, her campaign said. “I’m anxious about currency manipulation not being part of the agreement. I’m looking at all of them”.

“As of today, I am not in favor of what I have learned about it”, she said. The civil rights hero praised Clinton’s “tireless… advocacy for those who have been left out and left behind”.

Clinton’s staff gave the White House a heads-up about her decision before going public, a White House official told CNN.

While she frequently commends the president, Clinton has been offering critiques of his policies more and more.

With Clinton’s main challenger, Vermont Sen.

Clinton is still expected to defeat Sanders but he is polling ahead of her in a couple of key early states like New Hampshire. “We think we made improvements”, she said. But it also puts a major roadblock before a potential Biden candidacy by leaving the vice president the only supporter among Democrats of a highly controversial measure.

The White House had no immediate comment on Clinton’s position. But at the same time, they say she must find ways to distinguish herself – and undercut Republican attacks that Clinton would simply be a third Obama term.

But in September, Clinton finally ran out of patience – with the process, and with the political hits she was taking for ducking the issue.

Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley have been long-time critics of the deal.

Last month, she announced she was against construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that would send Canadian crude to USA refineries, a project that remains under consideration by the White House. “I think the Trans-Pacific Partnership is one way that could really enhance our relationship”.

It wasn’t just a change of rhetoric for a presidential candidate.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto called the TPP a “bold” agreement that would expand opportunity in Asia and Latin America for exporters in his nation.

After all, it was her husband, President Bill Clinton, who signed the first regional mega-deal: the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Clinton also switched her stance on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

Hillary Clinton has broken ranks with Barack Obama and criticised the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, saying it will not do enough to create American jobs or “advance our national security”.

She hasn’t disagreed with Obama – yet.

Business and industry are usually allied with Republicans, and many members of that party support trade agreements, although a few have not yet decided whether to support this particular, lengthy and complex deal.

She has criticized two of its elements. The Trans-Pacific Partnership was completed Monday and still needs to be approved by Congress, PBS reports. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, has hammered its inclusion – like most other trade deals – of a provision that would allow companies to challenge whether countries’ laws and regulations live up to their global trade commitments.