Trump calls for additional USTR, ITA funding in 2019 budget request

President Trump wants more money for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative next year, as well as a funding boost for the International Trade Administration, as it seeks to battle “abuses” the administration says have gone “unaddressed for years,” according to the White House budget request for fiscal year 2019. The administration requested $63 million for USTR, a roughly 10 percent bump from the Trump administration’s FY2018 request of $57.6 million for the agency. The FY2017 Continuing Resolution provided...