Political Quotes

“Correct, from that factory and also from other factories owned by the same automaker, so that you can't cheat one place and expect to get all your autos into the United States without tariffs. We thought a lot about this. Over the last 20 years, we looked at what has happened. We looked back over the last couple of decades, working with the very good Democratic staff of the Finance Committee and with our office, and found every possible example we could on how violations occur and how you stop those violations. So we built in a process. It is pretty complicated, and it took a while. As I said, the President handed down another corporate trade agreement that helps corporations at the expense of workers, and we weren't going to let that happen this time. That is why the Trump USMCA took a long time to pass--because for a whole year, they were resistant to good labor enforcement. They wanted to help their corporate buddies. Senator Wyden will remember that there was a provision in there to help the drug companies, a big giveaway to the drug companies. We said no to that. Speaker Pelosi said no to that. We stripped that out of the agreement. We wanted this agreement to center on workers--not to help the drug companies, not to help Wall Street, not to help and encourage those companies that outsource jobs.”