Vivek Ramaswamy Touts Pacific Trade Deal, Urges More Migration – By Neil Munro (Breitbart) / July 29, 2023
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told Elon Musk Friday that he favors more immigration into skilled U.S. jobs and that former President Donald Trump made a “poor decision” by exiting the Pacific-region free trade treaty.
“I think we should re-enter it,” Ramaswamy said to Musk about 94 minutes into the conversation on Twitter. “I think this is a little bit different than what, you know, the course of action taken by Trump in exiting the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership]. I think that was actually a poor decision.”
Ramaswamy did argue that the U.S. should seek changes from the other countries before re-entering the TPP deal:
I think that I can use the leverage of the fact that we did exit it to be able to say, “All right, here’s what we need done differently in a number of the countries from Japan down,” to be able to say here’s how we re-enter that on that fairer terms. And so that’s what I’d like to see … That puts us in a strong position from a trade perspective to then take a look at where we stand vis-a-vis China. So I could go on for hours on this one.
