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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said that “on day one” he will withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as he announced a number of policy plans for his first 100 days in the White House on Monday.
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Trump said that the all-but-dead TPP free trade deal pushed by outgoing President Barack Obama is “a potential disaster for our country.” He will use his executive power to “issues a notification of intent to withdraw” from the TPP.
Repeating his campaign rhetoric of working class fears over economic globalization, Trump said that his policy agenda based on “putting America First” would instead look to “negotiate fair bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores.”
It comes as a big blow for pro-TPP leaders such as Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who were attempting to salvage the deal at last week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC meetings in Lima, Peru.
Trump looks set to renegotiate the NAFTA free trade agreement and threatened to hit Mexico with higher tariffs which he previously blasted as the “worst trade deal ever” for the U.S. working class.
Trump’s video address signaled a blow for environmental sustainability when he said that he would cancel restrictions on American energy such as shale gas and so-called “clean coal,” labeling the current restriction as “job-killing.”
While not specifying exactly what types of regulation, Trump advocated a one step forward, two steps back approach. “For every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated.”
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Trump’s address on immigration was notably toned down from when he was on the campaign trail, saying that he would ask the Department of Labor to investigate the abuses of Visa programs which “undercut the American worker.”
The president-elect, however, did not mention one of his flagship campaign plans to build a wall across the length of the U.S.-Mexico border and of his so force of deportation agents to remove millions of immigrants from the country.
Additionally, there was no mention of his proposal to enact harsh immigration restrictionS on Muslims entering U.S. territory, or of his wish to scrap the “Obamacare” health care policy.
Addressing corruption in federal government, Trump said he would also “drain the swamp” by putting a five-year ban on executive official becoming lobbyists after they leave government, where executive officials will be banned for life lobbying for foreign governments.
On national security, the president-elect said he planned to come up with plans with defense officials to protect U.S. infrastructure from “cyber attacks and all other forms of attacks.”
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