OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT VS THE LEFT:

"I understand it," Trumka says, " Let me tell ya. Here's what it means. It means lost jobs and lower wages. That's it. Lost jobs and lower wages."

Public Citizens Global Trade Watch agrees. They say in "one fell swoop" the TPP could:

◦ offshore American jobs and increase income inequality;

◦ jack up the cost of medicines;

◦ sneak in threats to Internet freedom, and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards;

◦ expose the U.S. to unsafe food and products;

◦ roll back Wall Street reforms;

◦ ban Buy American policies needed to create green jobs.

"The progressive movement could not be more united, more focused, more committed to holding our leaders accountable for the actions they take in Washington than we are right now in the fight against Fast Track authority for the TPP," said Neil 

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