Trump pulls out of TTP trade deal

  • 7 years ago
President Donald Trump has fulfilled a key campaign pledge by withdrawing the United States from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Trump signed an executive order on Monday pulling the US out of the trade deal.

Trump called the TPP order a ‘‘great thing for the American worker.’‘

In an Oval Office ceremony, Trump also signed another order imposed a federal hiring freeze and a directive cutting funding to non-governmental organisations that provide abortions abroad.

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