Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has begun carrying out his campaign pledges to undo America’s trade ties — starting Monday with executive action to pull the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
“Great thing for the American worker, what we just did,” Trump told reporters Monday in the Oval Office as he signed the order.
Trump formally withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a 12-nation deal that had been negotiated under former President Barack Obama.
Nothing changes because of Trump’s move. Congress had not yet approved the TPP — its fate was bleak on Capitol Hill no matter what the White House did — and the deal had not yet taken effect.