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Democratic senators call on Trump to suspend government procurement provisions in trade deals

March 14, 2017 at 10:43 AM
Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) are calling on President Trump to honor his “Buy American” campaign pledge by temporarily suspending government procurement chapters in U.S. trade agreements until they are renegotiated, according to a March 10 letter that cites a Government Accountability Office analysis of the effect of trade agreements on domestic government procurement activities. The GAO report , released on March 13, says the U.S. has opened a “greater percentage of its government procurement to foreign...

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