Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has been adamantly pushing against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), on Tuesday called on Hillary Clinton to take a “clearer” stance on the trade deal the U.S. is negotiating with 11 Pacific countries.
Warren told Bloomberg News that she would like to know more about Clinton’s views on a provision in the trade deal that Warren says could undermine U.S. financial regulations.
“She’s always said that she is opposed to that, but I’d like to see her be clearer on that,” Warren said.
In a Tuesday interview with the Huffington Post, Warren noted that Clinton already weighed in on the TPP’s arbitration panels that could undermine U.S. regulations in her book, “Hard Choices,” but asked the presidential candidate to discuss the issue further.
“Look, she’s already said what she said in her book about the arbitration panels and I’d like her to weigh in on trade, I think it’s important,” Warren told the Huffington Post.
During an event in Iowa on Tuesday, Clinton said that she was worried the TPP may give “corporations more power to overturn health and environmental and labor rules than consumers have,” according to CNN.
But Clinton said she would need to see the final deal before taking a firm stance.
“I want to judge the final agreement. I have been for trade agreements; I have been against trade agreements,” she said, according to CNN.
Warren and President Obama have been engaged in an ongoing feud over the TPP. Warren and other Democrats worry that the trade deal could hurt the economy and undermine U.S. financial regulations. Obama has maintained his support for the deal and said Warren is “absolutely wrong.”
